One of SGA's major pharmaceutical/healthcare industry clients is looking for a Remote Senior Architect for a long-term contract role. This will be a remote role working EST/CST hours.
The Architect is responsible for providing end to end security architecture leadership for a major initiative, encompassing both SAP and non SAP systems within the project scope. This role serves as the primary security architecture owner for the project, ensuring that all solution components are designed, integrated, and delivered in a secure, compliant, and resilient manner.
The Architect partners closely with project leadership, application teams, infrastructure teams, vendors, and security stakeholders to design and implement large-scale integrated solutions, with a strong emphasis on SAP environments while maintaining full responsibility for adjacent platforms, integrations, cloud services, infrastructure, and networks that support the project.
PRIMARY DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES
- Acts as the dedicated security architect for an assigned project, responsible for security architectural decisions across SAP and non SAP components.
- Defines and maintains the end to end security architecture for the project, including applications, integrations, infrastructure, cloud services, identity, and security controls.
- Ensures architectural designs align with enterprise security standards while meeting project-specific functional, timeline, and delivery constraints.
- Serves as the primary point of accountability for security posture and technical risk within the project.
- SAP & Non SAP Solution Design
- Reviews and governs SAP and non SAP architectures to ensure secure interoperability across the full solution landscape.
- Ensures consistent application of security principles across SAP modules, supporting systems, middleware, and enterprise platforms.
- Security Architecture & Risk Management
- Identifies, documents, and manages project-specific security risks, threats, and architectural gaps impacting confidentiality, integrity, or availability.
- Performs security architecture reviews, threat modeling, and design assessments for all components within the project scope.
- Recommends and drives implementation of compensating controls and architectural changes to mitigate identified risks.
- Ensures the project complies with internal security policies, regulatory requirements, and applicable industry standards.
Infrastructure, Cloud & Network Security - Reviews project-specific infrastructure and network architectures, including on prem, cloud, and hybrid environments.
- Ensures secure connectivity, segmentation, encryption, and network controls are implemented across SAP and non SAP systems.
- Partners with infrastructure and cloud teams to ensure project environments meet security, resiliency, performance, and availability requirements.
Identity, Access & Data Protection - Ensures consistent and secure identity and access management across SAP and non SAP applications within the project.
- Ensures data protection requirements-classification, encryption, key management, and retention-are embedded into the project architecture.
- Delivery, Implementation & Integration
- Works hands-on with project teams during design, build, and deployment phases to ensure architectures are implemented as designed.
- Supports resolution of security issues discovered during development, testing, and deployment.
- Assists with root-cause analysis of project-related security issues and recommends improvements to prevent recurrence
- Supports automation of vulnerability scanning, configuration validation, and security monitoring for project systems.
- Governance & Stakeholder Engagement
- Represents security interests in project governance forums, design reviews, and milestone checkpoints.
- Communicates security decisions, risks, and trade-offs clearly to project leadership, business stakeholders, and technical teams.
- Coordinates with enterprise architecture and security governance teams to ensure project alignment without impeding delivery.
Collaboration - Collaborates with other domain architects (enterprise, cloud, data, network) as needed while retaining overall project security architecture ownership.
Required SAP Security Skills and Tools
- SAP S/4HANA and SAP S/4HANA Rise security infrastructure architecture and implementation experience.
- Expertise in SAP GRC (Governance, Risk, and Compliance) for access control and risk management.
- Strong knowledge of SAP Fiori security and role-based access controls.
- Experience with SAP HANA database security, encryption, and secure configuration.
- Familiarity with SAP Cloud Platform and integration security best practices.
- Ability to design and implement Segregation of Duties (SoD) and compliance frameworks within SAP environments.
- Hands-on experience with SAP user provisioning, identity management, and authorization concepts.
- Knowledge of SAP security audit tools, vulnerability scanning, and automation solutions.
PREFERRED SAP SECURITY SKILLS AND TOOLS
- SAP S/4HANA and SAP S/4HANA RISE security infrastructure architecture and implementation experience.
- Experience in SAP GRC (Governance, Risk, and Compliance) for access control and risk management.
- Knowledge of SAP Fiori security and role-based access controls.
- Experience with SAP HANA database security, encryption, and secure configuration.
- Familiarity with SAP Cloud Platform and integration security best practices.
- Experience with SAP user provisioning, identity management, and authorization concepts.
- Knowledge of SAP security audit tools, vulnerability scanning, and automation solutions.
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