Security Analyst

Digerati Systems Inc.; Austin (TX); On-site; USD 100,000 - 130,000; Full time

Job summary

Digerati Systems Inc. is seeking a senior-level consultant for the CAPPS Program in Texas. The role involves advanced consultative services while ensuring compliance with security frameworks and accessibility standards.

Candidates must have extensive experience in Texas public sector roles, technical project management, and support for CPA application systems. Strong analytical and communication skills are essential for success in this role.

Qualifications

• 10+ years of extensive Texas public sector experience directly supporting Texas state agencies.
• 10+ years of experience performing technical activities supporting CPA application systems.
• 10+ years of experience in technical project management related to CPA’s CAPPS program.

Responsibilities

• Provide advanced consultative services for the CAPPS Program.
• Ensure compliance with WCAG 2.1 accessibility standards.
• Oversee IAM workflows and security frameworks.
• Manage digital product security and compliance.
• Support reporting and analytics for contract KPIs.

Skills

Extensive Texas public sector experience

Technical activities in support of CPA application systems

Creating and managing a strategic roadmap

Preparing materials for executive-level presentations

Technical project management activities

Interpreting contractual language

Knowledge of data integration and SDLC processes

IT security and control practices

PeopleSoft FSCM or HCM technical skills

CAPPS Central technical support

IT service desk functions

Security analyst role experience

User role segregation of duties

Tools

SQL

Oracle 11 or higher

PeopleTools

Peoplecode

Application Designer

PS Query

SQR

Application Engine

Job description

Local Candidate Notice

Program will only accept LOCAL ONLY candidates for this position (Within 50-mile radius).

Interview Process

Interviews will be conducted:

• Through Microsoft Teams

Services Overview

Services Overview. The selected Vendor's Candidate will be part of CPA's Fiscal Management Statewide Fiscal Systems team, supporting the Centralized Accounting and Payroll/Personnel System (CAPPS) Program. The CAPPS Program for this engagement comprises the following components: HR/Payroll (inclusive of Recruit functionality), Financials, STARR, and all ancillary systems. The selected Vendor's Candidate must be adaptable and able to learn and integrate new systems and platforms as needed, such as CGI Advantage.

Position Requirements

• Performing highly advanced (senior-level) consultative services and technical assistance work related to supporting the CAPPS Program.
• Responsible for the IAM (TDIS) and ERP (CAPPS) security framework, which includes but is not limited to:
  • Provides oversight of IAM workflows, including account lifecycle management, provisioning, de provisioning, and access reviews.
  • Manage and enforce role based access control (RBAC) and least privilege models within ERP and connected systems.
  • Design and maintain segregation of duties (SoD) rules; identify and remediate SoD conflicts across business processes.
  • Review and validate security roles, permission sets, and custom authorizations within CAPPS and all ancillary systems.
  • Monitor and analyze authentication, authorization, and privilege escalation logs for suspicious behavior and coordinate any findings with CPA Information Security Office.
  • Oversee secure integration of third party apps via SAML, OAuth, OIDC, SCIM, and custom APIs.
  • Validate CAPPS application changes, customizations, and workflows for security and compliance impact.
  • Respond to and investigate identity related security incidents, including account compromise, unauthorized access, and TDIS fraud indicators.
  • Maintain standards for security, performance, compliance, and architecture.
• Responsible for ensuring that all digital products and content meet WCAG 2.1 accessibility standards. This includes maintaining perceivable, operable, understandable, and robust experiences for all users, regularly reviewing content for compliance, and implementing updates or remediation whenever accessibility issues are identified.
• Assisting with all applicable contract management oversight responsibilities associated with the CAPPS Program, including, but not limited to:
  • Assisting and participating with the annual IT control audits related to the CAPPS Central applications.
  • Ensuring contract data security, user permissions, audit trails, and compliance with organizational and regulatory standards.
  • Performing technical reviews of contract templates, metadata structures, workflows, and automation rules to ensure accuracy and usability.
  • Working closely with Fiscal Management’s contract managers to identify gaps and optimize contract processes.
• Overseeing and/or assisting with technical oversight and support related to, but not limited to, SLAs, system monitoring, environment analysis, hardware/software evaluation, network troubleshooting, migration paths, coding standards, security standards, compare reports, application change management review, and batch scheduling review.
• Maintaining documentation related to architecture, configuration, integrations, and change management.
• Supporting reporting and analytics for contract KPIs, compliance metrics, and lifecycle performance.
• Reviewing and suggesting approval for all assigned Technical Deliverables related to CAPPS Architecture, CAPPS System Development Lifecycle, Disaster Recovery, CAPPS Security Plans (SSP), and all CAPPS related Technology plans related to CAPPS applications currently and planning for the future.
• Planning and coordinating various technical upgrades (e.g., PeopleSoft image, PeopleSoft Fluid, PeopleTools, other software publisher upgrades, etc.).
• Participating as a security advisor during the procurement cycle for certain CPA‑issued procurements for products or services associated with CPA’s CAPPS Program. Activities may include, but are not limited to, the following: research of products and services, planning activities, drafting and reviewing documents for use in solicitations, providing technical input for purposes of developing guidelines for evaluating the developed technical specifications, and serving as a technical advisor providing input to CPA’s teams during the evaluation and negotiation phases.
• Performing other related Work as assigned.

Special Skill Set

• Serve as a subject matter expert associated with user role Segregation of Duties (SOD) in CAPPS multi‑tenant software applications.
• Serve as a subject matter expert and perform Delegated Administration Level 3 for the Texas Digital Identity Services (TDIS).
• Serve as the subject matter expert and be able to implement, support, and maintain products offered by PathLock that include: User Access Review (UAR), Single Sign‑On (SSO), Data Masking and A360.
• Performing other related Work as assigned.

Candidates that do not meet or exceed the minimum stated requirements (skills/experience) will be displayed to customers but may not be chosen for this opportunity.

Years Required/Preferred Experience

• 10 Required Extensive Texas public sector experience, directly working for or supporting a Texas state government agency
• 10 Required Extensive experience performing technical activities in support of CPA application systems
• 10 Required Extensive experience creating and managing a strategic roadmap by combining strong planning skills, technical insight, and effective cross functional communication
• 10 Required Experience preparing materials for and conducting executive‑level presentations
• 10 Required Experience performing technical project management activities in support of CPA’s CAPPS program
• 10 Required Experience in interpreting contractual language and integrating it into daily workflows, while consistently holding vendors accountable to contractual requirements
• 10 Required Extensive knowledge of/experience with data integration, data quality, and SDLC processes and methodologies
• 10 Required Experience in IT security and control practices
• 10 Required Technical experience with PeopleSoft FSCM or HCM 9.2, PeopleTools, Peoplecode, Application Designer, SQL, PS Query, SQR, Application Engine and Oracle 11 or higher
• 10 Required Experience with CAPPS Central production and deployment technical support activities for more than 100 agencies and 5 Hub instances.
• 8 Required Experience with IT service desk functions, knowledge of ITIL framework methodologies and processes.
• 5 Required Experience serving in a security analyst role with responsibility overseeing a Managed Services provider
• 5 Required Experience with user role segregation of duties (SoD) in multi‑tenant software applications.
• 10 Preferred Experience with software and hardware management industry best practices
• 10 Preferred Experience with CPA’s legacy Statewide Financial Systems production support activities
• 10 Preferred Experience developing technical specifications to support IT procurements.