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# SAP Application Security Lead

- **Company:** Accenture
- **Location:** Washington, CA, United States
- **Experience:** Expert
- **Salary:** $116,900.0 - $243,100.0
- **Contract:** Permanent contract
- **Skills:** Cyber Security, Identity and Access Management, Smartsuite, SAP (Applications), SAP IS-U, SAP Security, User Provisioning Software
- **Published:** August 6, 2026
- **Apply:** https://dejobs.org/x/x/040637DEDFE34058AFF9D0C1F6D1D57D/job/

## About the Role

* 7+ years of SAP Application Security experience
 * Role and authorization design experience
 * Experience with GRC tools and compliance frameworks
 * SAP IS-U security knowledge
 * Identity management and access governance experience
 * Security operations knowledge

Nice to have:

 * SAP IS-U security knowledge
 * Bachelor's degree in related field

Eligibility requirements:

 * US Citizen (dual accepted)
 * Must be eligible to obtain government clearance

## Description

The SAP IS-U Security Lead owns SAP IS-U security architecture, role design, authorization strategy, GRC integration, compliance, and security operations readiness. The role is responsible for security architecture definition, role and authorization design, segregation-of-duties analysis, GRC configuration, security testing, user provisioning strategy, access governance, and security operations transition. The position delivers security architecture and role design documentation, authorization matrices, SoD analysis, GRC configuration, security test results, provisioning procedures, and security operations runbooks. Critical capabilities include SAP security expertise, role/authorization design, GRC tools, compliance frameworks, SAP IS-U security, identity management, access governance, and security operations., * Own SAP IS-U security architecture, role design, authorization strategy, GRC integration, compliance, and security operations readiness

 * Define security architecture, role/authorization design, segregation-of-duties analysis, and GRC configuration
 * Conduct security testing, user provisioning strategy, access governance, and security operations transition
 * Deliver security architecture documentation, role design documentation, authorization matrices, SoD analysis, GRC configuration, security test results, provisioning procedures, and security operations runbooks
 * Apply critical capabilities including SAP security expertise, role/authorization design, GRC tools, compliance frameworks, SAP IS-U security, identity management, access governance, and security operations


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