{"id":3808853,"url":"https://alion.io/job/caterpillar-senior-it-analyst-security-sap-security","title":"Senior IT Analyst Security (SAP Security)","company":{"id":176554,"name":"Caterpillar","domain":"caterpillar.com","url":"https://alion.io/company/caterpillar","size_band":"1001-5000","is_staffing_agency":false,"employer_type":"direct","is_intermediary":false,"listed_via":null,"ats_vendor":"Workday","truth_index":{"grade":"A","score":96,"open_postings":156,"ghost_share":0,"stale_share":0.135,"repost_share":0.026,"time_to_fill_p50_days":31,"computed_at":"2026-11-10T06:52:35Z"}},"role":"Enterprise Apps","role_family":"Enterprise Apps","seniority":"senior","employment_type":"full_time","work_mode":"on_site","remote_scope":null,"remote_scope_basis":null,"remote_working_hours":null,"hiring_geo_confidence":"structured","locations":["Bengaluru, India"],"countries":["IN"],"hiring_countries":[],"hiring_countries_total":0,"salary":null,"salary_estimate":null,"experience_years_min":5,"visa_sponsorship":true,"relocation_package":false,"has_equity":false,"technologies":[{"name":"Copilot","optional":false},{"name":"IAM","optional":false}],"status":"live","first_seen_at":"2026-11-05T14:19:01Z","employer_posted_date":"2026-11-05","last_verified_at":"2026-11-10T10:38:41Z","board_verified":true,"closed_at":null,"days_open":4,"trust":{"level":"ok","repost_count":null,"flags":[],"days_open":4},"description":"Career Area:\nTechnology, Digital and DataJob Description:\nYour Work Shapes the World at Caterpillar Inc.\nWhen you join Caterpillar, you're joining a global team who cares not just about the work we do - but also about each other. We are the makers, problem solvers, and future world builders who are creating stronger, more sustainable communities. We don't just talk about progress and innovation here - we make it happen, with our customers, where we work and live. Together, we are building a better world, so we can all enjoy living in it.\nJob Purpose:\nYour Work Shapes the World. Whether it be groundbreaking products, best in class solutions or creating a lifelong career, you can do the work that matters at Caterpillar. With a 95-year legacy of quality and innovation and 150 locations in countries around the world, your impact spans the globe.\nWhen you join Caterpillar, you are joining a team of makers, innovators, and doers. We are the people who roll up our sleeves and do the work to build a better world. We don’t just talk about progress and innovation. We make it happen. And we are proud of that because it helps our customers build and power the world we live in - the roads, hospitals, homes and infrastructure. Without a dedicated workforce Caterpillar could not effectively meet our customer’s needs. Join us.\nWe are seeking an experienced Senior IT Analyst Security (SAP Security) to join our Design Eng Processes team - CAT IT Division.\nThe preference for this role is to be based out of Bangalore - Caterpillar PSN\nThis position requires candidate to work a 5-day -a -week schedule.\nShift Timing: 01:00-10:00PM IST\nThe SAP Security Analyst is responsible for safeguarding the integrity, confidentiality, and availability of SAP systems by designing, implementing, and managing security policies and procedures. This role involves analyzing business requirements, configuring SAP roles and authorizations, monitoring user access, and ensuring compliance with internal and external regulations.\nJob Duties:\nOwn and drive all incidents, service tasks, problem tickets and system optimization for operations portfolio, ensuring delivery against commitments, SLAs, and outcomes.\nEstablish, monitor, and continuously improve standard work; ensure progress, risks, and dependencies are communicated effectively to stakeholders and leadership.\nParticipate in the administration and support of SAP security, including user access provisioning, role assignments, and access changes.\nAssist in developing, testing, and implementing SAP security roles and authorizations in accordance with documented requirements.\nSupport testing activities related to SAP security changes, major releases and deployment activities.\nHelp prepare and maintain technical and procedural documentation related to SAP security processes, roles, and controls.\nInvestigate and help resolve SAP authorization and access issues, working with business users and IT partners.\nContribute to audit and compliance activities by gathering evidence and supporting remediation actions.\nProvide operational support for SAP security-related incidents and service requests.\nParticipate in application or security-related projects affecting SAP systems.\nWhat You Will Have:\nIn-depth functional and technical knowledge of ERP security including SAP GRC Access Control, Identity and Access Management (IAM) and role design\nCore Application Systems: Experience supporting SAP application systems for a major business unit, collaborating with business and IT stakeholders to resolve security and access issues, recommending improvements to role design, identifying access risks, and supporting contingency and access continuity planning.\nProblem Solving: Ability to identify and document SAP security and access issues, apply standard diagnostic and fact-finding techniques to analyze authorization problems, consider stakeholder perspectives, and assist in evaluating the risks and benefits of alternative access or role design approaches.\nApplication Design & Architecture: Experience participating in SAP security design reviews, evaluating role design and authorization concepts, documenting SAP security designs and role structures, and supporting security considerations for SAP integrations and interfaces\nImplementation: Experience implementing SAP security configurations under senior guidance, monitoring the quality and effectiveness of SAP security controls, providing day-to-day operational support for SAP security users and processes, and assisting end users with access and security-related inquiries.\nRequirements Analysis: Ability to follow established policies and standards to gather SAP security requirements, collaborating with business users to understand access needs, documenting functional and security requirements, and ensuring security deliverables align with documented requirements.\nSystem & Technology Integration: Experience supporting SAP security considerations for system integrations, working with existing SAP interfaces and access models, and assisting with integration and migration activities within SAP environments as part of local or project-based initiatives.\nSystem Testing - SAP Security: Experience supporting SAP security testing activities, executing test cases for access, roles, and authorizations, analyzing and documenting test results, and participating in testing SAP security changes to support compliance and recovery readiness.\n Gen AI Assisted Development or Support: Practical experience leveraging AI-assisted development tools (such as GitHub Copilot or automated agent workflows) to accelerate application development or support, cost or effort reduction, or support optimization. Demonstrated experience with AI tools\n Comprehensive knowledge of SOX, segregation of duties (SoD), and audit principles.\nTop Candidates Will Also Have:\nHas the ability to lead, analyze and have a broader perspective on specific technology and related solutions. This requires a comprehensive understanding of application solutions, interfaces, security, data governance policies and procedures.\nSkilled in large scale application support and development\nPrior experience in driving innovation and automation\nExtensive experience in working with cross-functional teams, along with proven history of strong job-related result's\nExecute business objectives through collaboration and decisive action. Provide guidance to the team in resolving issues in a timely manner and lead technical teams with focus on innovation and continuous improvement.\nLead and/or direct teams within or outside of discipline addressing complex problems. Experience in managing teams working across multiple locations working from satellite office location's\nStrong stakeholder management skills\nEducation / Experience: Requires a relevant computer science masters or graduate degree and 5 plus years of progressively complex Information Service experience with SAP security and roles. Requires general understanding of basic business operations including one or more of the following: general business processes, technical infrastructure, application development and support of major projects, and engineering functional applications. Requires ability to work with diversified departments along with effective oral and written communications skills. The incumbent must have a strong customer focus and business knowledge. The position also requires to work efficiently with integration partners, technology vendors, and managed service partners.\nAdditional Info:\nMay require travel of up to 25%.\nThis role requires 5 days onsite.\nRelocation is unavailable\nSkill Descriptors\nCore Application Systems: Knowledge of major production application systems used for delivery of services to internal and external clients; ability to leverage major production application systems in diverse situations.\nLevel Extensive Experience: \nManages application-related issues, implications, and approaches with clients.\nEvaluates key interfaces and interdependencies among core applications systems.\nExplains features and benefits of core applications for consideration by business units.\nImplements existing and planned application enhancements in major business units.\nTracks data flow between own applications and core applications in other business areas.\nPlans enhancement, conversion, and retirement strategies for core applications. Problem Solving: Knowledge of approaches, tools, techniques for recognizing, anticipating, and resolving organizational, operational or process problems; ability to apply knowledge of problem solving appropriately to diverse situations. Level Extensive Experience: \nEnsures capture of lessons to be learned from a problem-solving effort.\nOrganizes potential problem solvers and leads problem resolution efforts.\nUses varying problem-solving approaches and techniques as appropriate.\nContributes to standard practices for problem-solving approaches, tools, and processes.\nAnalyzes and synthesizes information and devises alternative resolution strategies.\nDevelops successful resolutions to critical or wide-impact problems. Application Design, Architecture: Knowledge of application design and architecture principles and practices; ability to utilize application design methodologies, tools, and techniques to convert business requirements and logical models into a technical application design. Level Extensive Experience: \nAnalyzes system requirements and translates them into detailed design specifications.\nDesigns complex application architectures that meet performance, scalability, and reliability requirements.\nEvaluates and selects appropriate pattern, components, technologies, and tools for application development; integrates them with technical design.\nLeads application design reviews and walkthroughs to ensure alignment between business requirements and technical solution.\nTroubleshoots complex design issues and provides innovative solutions.\nPrepares technical design documents and blueprints for applications. Implementation: Knowledge of how to run applications for organizations; ability to implement application software within an organization and help end-users perform specific tasks (ex: accounting or graphic design). Level Working Knowledge: \nTracks problems associated with the quality and effectiveness of application software.\nResearches the benefits and drawbacks of an organization's application software.\nDrafts application software usage for the department's needs.\nProvides instant support for end users of application software.\nImplements a specific application software under the supervision of management. Requirements Analysis: Knowledge of tools, methods, and techniques of requirement analysis; ability to elicit, analyze and record required business functionality and non-functionality requirements to ensure the success of a system or software development project. 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