SAP SaaS Security/Admin

IBM

Boston (MA)

Hybrid

USD 35,000 - 53,000

Full time

7 days ago
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Job summary

IBM Consulting in Mexico is seeking a SAP Security Specialist to maintain SAP application security solutions for clients, translating security requirements into functional SAP-based controls and tooling.

You will configure security settings, implement policies, collaborate with clients, and maintain documentation while staying current with SAP HANA security features and best practices. Hybrid work arrangement in Mexico is available.

Qualifications

  • Experience in SAP SaaS security/administration.
  • Ariba user/group/role administration; Concur user permissions, delegates, and approver roles.
  • IAS/IAG/SSO awareness; ticket execution, SLA discipline, documentation, and an RCA mindset.

Responsibilities

  • Configure SAP Security Settings: Configure and customize SAP security settings to meet client requirements, implementing role-based access control and segregation of duties in SAP systems.
  • Implement Security Policies: Design and implement SAP security policies and procedures, conducting security audits and risk assessments to identify vulnerabilities and recommend remediation.
  • Collaborate with Clients: Collaborate with clients to understand their security requirements and translate them into functional solutions, providing training and support on SAP security best practices and tools.
  • Maintain Technical Documentation: Develop and maintain technical documentation and knowledge base, staying up-to-date with new features and releases of SAP security modules.
  • Stay Current with SAP HANA Security: Stay up-to-date with the latest SAP HANA security features, trends, and best practices.

Skills

SAP SaaS security
Ariba provisioning
Concur provisioning
SSO awareness
SoD awareness

Education

Bachelor's Degree

Tools

SAP security tools

Job description

A career in IBM Consulting is built on long-term client relationships and close collaboration worldwide. You’ll work with leading companies across industries, helping them shape their hybrid cloud and AI journeys. With support from our strategic partners, robust IBM technology, and Red Hat, you’ll have the tools to drive meaningful change and accelerate client impact. At IBM Consulting, curiosity fuels success. You’ll be encouraged to challenge the norm, explore new ideas, and create innovative solutions that deliver real results. Our culture of growth and empathy focuses on your long-term career development while valuing your unique skills and experiences.

In this role, you’ll work in one of our IBM Consulting FutureNow Centers, where we deliver deep technical and industry expertise to a wide range of public and private sector clients around the world. Our delivery centers offer our clients locally based skills and technical expertise to drive innovation and adoption of new technology.

Your role and responsibilities

As a Package Specialist in SAP Application Security, you will be responsible for maintaining SAP application security solutions for clients, ensuring compliance with industry standards and regulations. You will work closely with clients to understand their security requirements and translate them into functional solutions using SAP security tools.

Your primary responsibilities will include:

  • Configure SAP Security Settings: Configure and customize SAP security settings to meet client requirements, implementing role-based access control and segregation of duties in SAP systems.
  • Implement Security Policies: Design and implement SAP security policies and procedures, conducting security audits and risk assessments to identify vulnerabilities and recommend remediation.
  • Collaborate with Clients: Collaborate with clients to understand their security requirements and translate them into functional solutions, providing training and support on SAP security best practices and tools.
  • Maintain Technical Documentation: Develop and maintain technical documentation and knowledge base, staying up-to-date with new features and releases of SAP security modules.
  • Stay Current with SAP HANA Security: Stay up-to-date with the latest SAP HANA security features, trends, and best practices.
Required education

Bachelor's Degree

Required technical and professional expertise

Experience in SAP SaaS security/administration; Ariba user/group/role administration; Concur user permissions, delegates, and approver roles; procurement/finance process awareness; IAS/IAG/SSO awareness; ticket execution, SLA discipline, documentation, and an RCA mindset.

Manage Ariba and Concur provisioning/deprovisioning, groups, roles, permission sets, delegates, approval roles, reporting permissions, admin permissions, and access troubleshooting.

Resolve user access incidents, role‑mapping defects, integration-driven user issues, SSO/provisioning handoff issues, and recurring access patterns across procurement, travel, and expense processes.

Validate requests against least‑privilege principles, approval models, security matrices, SoD/critical access expectations, and evidence requirements.

Build KB articles and propose catalog updates, role templates, workflow improvements, or automation where repeated SaaS access requests occur.

ABOUT BUSINESS UNIT

IBM Consulting is IBM’s consulting and global professional services business, with market leading capabilities in business and technology transformation. With deep expertise in many industries, we offer strategy, experience, technology, and operations services to many of the most innovative and valuable companies in the world. Our people are focused on accelerating our clients’ businesses through the power of collaboration. We believe in the power of technology responsibly used to help people, partners and the planet.

YOUR LIFE @ IBM

In a world where technology never stands still, we understand that, dedication to our clients success, innovation that matters, and trust and personal responsibility in all our relationships, lives in what we do as IBMers as we strive to be the catalyst that makes the world work better.

Being an IBMer means you’ll be able to learn and develop yourself and your career, you’ll be encouraged to be courageous and experiment everyday, all whilst having continuous trust and support in an environment where everyone can thrive whatever their personal or professional background.

Our IBMers are growth minded, always staying curious, open to feedback and learning new information and skills to constantly transform themselves and our company. They are trusted to provide on‑going feedback to help other IBMers grow, as well as collaborate with colleagues keeping in mind a team focused approach to include different perspectives to drive exceptional outcomes for our customers. The courage our IBMers have to make critical decisions everyday is essential to IBM becoming the catalyst for progress, always embracing challenges with resources they have to hand, a can‑do attitude and always striving for an outcome focused approach within everything that they do.

Are you ready to be an IBMer?

ABOUT IBM

IBM’s greatest invention is the IBMer. We believe that through the application of intelligence, reason and science, we can improve business, society and the human condition, bringing the power of an open hybrid cloud and AI strategy to life for our clients and partners around the world.

Restlessly reinventing from 1911, we are not only one of the largest corporate organizations in the world, we’re also one of the biggest technology and consulting employers, with many of the Fortune 500 companies relying on the IBM Cloud to run their business.

At IBM, we pride ourselves on being an early adopter of artificial intelligence, quantum computing and blockchain. Now it’s time for you to join us on our journey to being a responsible technology innovator and a force for good in the world.

IBM is proud to be an equal‑opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, gender, gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, national origin, genetics, pregnancy, disability, neurodivergence, age, or other characteristics protected by the applicable law. IBM is also committed to compliance with all fair employment practices regarding citizenship and immigration status.

OTHER RELEVANT JOB DETAILS

All our positions are eligible for people with disabilities PwD or rehabilitated.

Important Notice to Candidates

IBM does not charge any fees or request any kind of payment from candidates to participate in its recruitment processes. This includes, but is not limited to, application fees, costs for sending documents, or any payment related to the application or interviews. If you receive any request for payment in the name of IBM, we strongly recommend that you do not proceed and report it immediately through the company’s official channels.

Job Title

SAP Security Specialist

Job ID

128045

City / Township / Village

State / Province

Country

Mexico

Work arrangement

Hybrid

Area of work

Software Engineering

Employment type

Regular

Contract type

Regular

Position type

Professional

No Travel

Company

Shift

General (daytime)

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