Senior SAP Cybersecurity Leader & Solutions Architect

IBM Computing; Columbus (OH); Remote; USD 140,000 - 190,000; Full time

Job summary

IBM Consulting is seeking an SAP Cybersecurity Senior Managing Consultant to help clients navigate SAP security, risk, and transformation across hybrid cloud environments. You will lead delivery, architect secure SAP solutions, and translate cyber risk into actionable plans for large enterprises.

The role requires deep SAP security expertise, strong leadership, and the ability to communicate with executives, auditors, and technical teams. Travel to client sites may be required.

Qualifications

• 12+ years of experience across SAP security, cybersecurity, technology risk, enterprise application security, cloud security, IAM, GRC, or related advisory roles.
• 6+ years leading SAP security, GRC, IAM, cyber monitoring, cloud security, or technology risk work streams in enterprise or consulting environments.
• Experience as a work stream lead, solution architect, team lead, or client-facing advisor on SAP security or enterprise transformation programs, including leading delivery teams.
• Hands-on knowledge of SAP application security, SAP BTP security, SAP GRC Access Control, authorization concepts, role design, access governance, segregation of duties, privileged access, and identity lifecycle governance.
• Experience with SAP cyber monitoring and threat detection (such as SAP Enterprise Threat Detection or comparable platforms), vulnerability management, secure configuration, patch governance, SIEM/SOC integration, or incident response.
• Ability to communicate with executive, technical, audit, compliance, and business stakeholders while supporting pursuits, client-ready materials, trusted relationships, and travel as needed.

Responsibilities

• Lead delivery of SAP cybersecurity strategy, architecture, assessment, remediation, and advisory workstreams for complex enterprise clients, including programs with regulatory, audit, or multi-system delivery scope.
• Design and operationalize security capabilities across SAP applications, SAP BTP and hybrid cloud platforms, identity services, GRC, access governance, threat detection, and modern transformation landscapes.
• Establish SAP security baselines and control models for secure configuration, patch governance, privileged access, segregation of duties, audit logging, cyber monitoring, vulnerability management, and control validation.
• Translate SAP cyber risks, control gaps, and technical findings into executive-ready recommendations, remediation plans, target-state architectures, and measurable risk reduction programs.
• Serve as technical lead or solution architect across consulting programs, leading delivery teams and owning delivery quality, risk management, stakeholder communications, technical decisions, and client value realization.
• Support SAP cybersecurity growth through solution shaping, proposal input, statements of work, estimation, offering differentiation, and expansion of trusted client relationships.
• Strengthen IBM Consulting's SAP cybersecurity capabilities by mentoring consultants, developing reusable delivery assets, contributing to technical methods, and supporting client and internal technical discussions.

Skills

SAP security

Cybersecurity consulting

Client leadership

Architecture leadership

Executive communication

Travel readiness

Tools

SAP ETD

SAP GRC

SAP Cloud Identity Services

SAP BTP security

Onapsis

Pathlock

Job description

IBM Consulting is seeking an SAP Cybersecurity Senior Managing Consultant to help clients navigate SAP security, risk, and transformation across hybrid cloud environments. You will lead delivery, architect secure SAP solutions, and translate cyber risk into actionable plans for large enterprises.

The role requires deep SAP security expertise, strong leadership, and the ability to communicate with executives, auditors, and technical teams. Travel to client sites may be required.