About the RoleWe are seeking a Senior SAP Security Specialist to serve as the global design authority and technical lead for authorization and access governance across our S/4HANA migration program. This senior individual contributor role is responsible for setting global security standards, driving end-to-end design decisions, and providing oversight, review, and final approval of work delivered by contractors and offshore/onshore partners. The ideal candidate has led security design on at least one full-lifecycle SAP implementation and is comfortable operating as the final technical authority on security architecture decisions across a global program.
Key ResponsibilitiesDesign Leadership & Global Standards- Drive the overall S/4HANA authorization and security design strategy, making final architectural decisions on role structure, SoD ruleset design, and Fiori security models
- Define, document, and own global security standards, design principles, and naming conventions for consistency across regions, business units, and future rollouts
- Conduct quality assurance checkpoints throughout the project lifecycle to ensure contractor work aligns with global design standards and compliance requirements
- Establish reusable design templates and governance frameworks scalable across current and future implementations
- Serve as escalation point and final decision-maker for complex security design questions
Oversight, Review & Approval of Contractor Work- Provide technical oversight of contractor/SI deliverables related to role design and SoD remediation
- Review and formally approve role builds, catalog/tile assignments, and SoD ruleset changes before promotion to test/production
- Hold contractors accountable to SLAs, documentation standards, and design specifications
- Mentor contractor teams to preserve design intent and enable knowledge transfer
S/4HANA Migration Execution- Lead the security workstream across Design & Build, Test Cycles, Go Live, and Hypercare phases
- Lead SoD ruleset development, and risk remediation
- Direct Fiori launchpad security design and front-end/back-end authorization alignment
- Lead cutover security activities and hypercare issue resolution
Stakeholder & Program Engagement- Act as primary security advisor to program and IT leadership on design risk and compliance exposure
- Represent security workstream in project meetings
- Partner with global functional and technical leads (OTC, FTM, FUL, GTS, SCP, PP, EWM, MFG) to ensure security design supports redesigned business processes
Required Qualifications- 10+ years of SAP security administration experience, including full-cycle leadership of at least one SAP implementation
- Bachelor's degree in computer science, Information Systems, or related field.
- Experience setting global security design standards across a multi-region SAP landscape
- Proven experience reviewing, quality-checking, and approving deliverables produced by external contractors or SI partners
- Expert-level knowledge of SAP authorization concepts: PFCG, SU24, SU25, SUIM, SU53, role derivation, composite/master role structures
- Experience supporting SAP system upgrades from a security perspective, including pre/post-upgrade authorization testing and remediation
- Demonstrated ability to build and govern SoD rulesets and drive large-scale risk remediation
- Strong hands-on experience with Security Access Control process
- Solid understanding of SOX/ITGC compliance requirements
- Experience running USMM (SAP System Measurement) for license audits, including reconciling user classifications and measurement results to support license compliance reporting
- Experience managing or directing the work of both employees and external vendors/contractors on a technical deliverable
- Strong executive communication skills; able to present design decisions and risk trade-offs to senior stakeholders
- Ability to set direction and own outcomes - comfortable as the final technical authority on design decisions
- Strong quality-control mindset; holds self and contractors to a high bar
- Strategic and standards-oriented, balancing global consistency with local/regional needs
- Effective at influencing without direct authority, particularly with external partners
- Excellent written and verbal communication for both technical and executive audiences
- Approximately up to 25% of travel may be required
Preferred Qualifications- SAP Security or GRC certification
- Experience with SAP Cloud Identity Access Governance (IAG) or SAP BTP security
- Experience building a global governance model for SAP security
- Familiarity with vendor management, SOW/deliverable review processes, and contractor performance management
- Experience with managing SAP Full Use Equivalent licensing metrics, ensuring user classifications and authorization assignments align with license compliance requirements and support cost optimization
- Experience with ControlPanel GRC
Applicants can expect a base compensation range of $101,400 - $152,100 plus benefits and additional incentives based on the level of the role. This is the reasonable estimate that Belden believes it might pay for this job based on applicable circumstances at the time of posting. Belden may ultimately pay more or less than the posted range as permitted by law, and commensurate with the applicant's experience, qualifications, and geographical location.
Belden also offers hybrid and remote work practices where feasible and provides employees with benefits that could include health/dental/vision, long term/short term disability, life insurance, HSA/FSA, matching retirement plans, paid vacation, parental leave, employee stock purchase plan, paid leave for volunteer work in your community, training opportunities, professional talent management and succession planning, corporate health well-being initiatives and a work culture which includes commitment to diversity, equity, inclusion and sustainability!
