{"id":2193283,"url":"https://alion.io/job/cognizant-sap-security-consultant","title":"SAP Security Consultant","company":{"id":85,"name":"Cognizant","domain":"cognizant.com","url":"https://alion.io/company/cognizant","size_band":"5000+","is_staffing_agency":false,"employer_type":"services","is_intermediary":false,"listed_via":null,"ats_vendor":"Cognizant Careers","truth_index":{"grade":"A","score":87,"open_postings":124,"ghost_share":0,"stale_share":0.694,"repost_share":0.016,"time_to_fill_p50_days":20,"computed_at":"2026-10-22T06:10:10Z"}},"role":"Enterprise Apps","role_family":"Enterprise Apps","seniority":"senior","employment_type":"full_time","work_mode":"hybrid","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":{"min_usd":12500,"max_usd":30000,"period":"year","method":"role_seniority_country_remote_cell","sample_n":63},"experience_years_min":6,"visa_sponsorship":false,"relocation_package":false,"has_equity":false,"technologies":[],"status":"live","first_seen_at":"2026-10-09T09:33:08Z","employer_posted_date":"2026-10-09","last_verified_at":"2026-10-22T08:42:40Z","board_verified":true,"closed_at":null,"days_open":13,"trust":{"level":"ok","repost_count":null,"flags":[],"days_open":13},"description":"Job Summary\nThis hybrid day shift role is for a Project Manager with six to eight years of experience specializing in SAP security and compliance across complex enterprise environments. The Project Manager will coordinate and deliver SAP security and GRC access control initiatives that protect business data and ensure regulatory adherence. The role involves close collaboration with cross functional teams and stakeholders to implement secure processes improve audit readiness and support innovation in sec\nResponsibilities\nLead end to end planning and execution of SAP security and GRC access control projects to meet agreed scope schedule and quality targets while maintaining strong stakeholder alignment\nOversee SAP security design and configuration activities to ensure that role structures authorization objects and segregation of duties rules effectively protect critical business data\nCoordinate detailed SAP security audits and compliance reviews to identify control gaps define remediation actions and support sustained audit readiness for internal and external assessments\nDrive continuous improvement in SAP security processes by analyzing incident trends control failures and change management data and implementing practical enhancements that reduce risk\nManage project governance including status reporting risk and issue tracking and dependency management so that decision makers have clear visibility into security delivery progress\nProvide guidance to functional and technical teams on SAP access risk mitigation and compliant role provisioning ensuring that business requirements are met without compromising control objectives\nCollaborate with business process owners and security operations teams to streamline user access workflows and request approvals leading to faster onboarding and safer access patterns\nAlign project deliverables with company security standards and industry regulations so that SAP environments remain compliant and support the organization purpose of trusted digital services\nCoordinate testing activities for security and GRC changes including unit integration and user acceptance testing to confirm that new controls function as intended in production like conditions\nSupport hybrid working practices by organizing clear communication routines digital collaboration tools and structured documentation that keep distributed project teams synchronized and productive\nContribute to cross domain initiatives where SAP security intersects with data driven research enabling safer handling of information in fields such as cheminformatics and bioinformatics\nEngage stakeholders in workshops and review sessions to explain risk findings upcoming changes and expected benefits thereby strengthening awareness and commitment to secure business operations\nDocument project outcomes lessons learned and updated security standards so that future initiatives can reuse proven approaches and amplify the impact of current work on organizational resilience\nQualifications\nApply advanced knowledge of SAP security GRC access control configuration to design and optimize roles workflows and risk rules in line with business and compliance expectations\nUse hands on experience in SAP security audits and compliance assessments to interpret audit criteria map them to system controls and advise teams on pragmatic remediation strategies\nEmploy practical skills in SAP security monitoring and incident review to support detection of unauthorized activities and recommend durable preventive and detective controls\nLeverage familiarity with SAP security governance practices to help define policies and operating procedures that improve consistency of access management across applications\nUtilize any exposure to cheminformatics and bioinformatics domains to better understand specialized data protection needs and tailor SAP security controls to research intensive environments\nDemonstrate strong project management capabilities in planning estimation resource coordination and risk management gained over six to eight years of running technology projects\nApply excellent communication and stakeholder management skills to translate complex SAP security topics into clear actions for business users technical teams and audit partners\nCertifications Required\nPreferred certifications include SAP Certified Technology Specialist Security and Authorization and Certified Information Systems Auditor or equivalent","description_format":"text","description_chars":4439,"description_truncated":false,"requirements":{"experience_years_min":6,"management_years_min":null,"team_size_min":null,"manages_managers":false,"education":null,"security_clearance":false,"languages":[]},"benefits":["Hybrid work"],"hiring_locations":[{"name":"India","iso":"IN","kind":"country"}],"hiring_excludes":[],"relocation_offered":false,"industries":["Science & Engineering","IT Outsourcing & Dedicated Teams","Engineering Services","Cloud Consulting & Migration"],"lifecycle":[{"event":"open","at":"2026-10-09T18:37:01Z"}],"visa":[],"liveness":{"score":52,"band":"ok","label":"Likely open","p_open":1,"p_active":0.581,"p_room":0.9,"age_days":12,"expected_fill_days":20,"reasons":["conf:1","stale_co","velocity","win:mid","comp:brand"],"computed_at":"2026-10-22T06:10:10Z"},"pay":null,"html_url":"https://alion.io/job/cognizant-sap-security-consultant","json_url":"https://alion.io/job/cognizant-sap-security-consultant.json","meta":{"generated_at":"2026-10-22T10:24:55Z","cache_seconds":300,"methodology":"https://alion.io/methodology","terms":"https://alion.io/terms","contact":"https://alion.io/contact","api":"https://alion.io/developers","about":"Alion is a live layer of people, companies and AI agents: who they are, whether they are real and active right now, what they do and how to work with them, readable by people and by agents and paid per call.","catalog":"https://alion.io/catalog.json","usage":{"tier":"crawler_verified","counted_by":"address","units_charged":1,"used_today":7678,"day_limit":null,"remaining_today":null,"minute_limit":300,"resets_at":"2026-10-23T00:00:00Z"}},"offers":[{"id":"company.slices","title":"One company in depth, by slice","status":"live","price":{"credits":0.02,"usd":0.002,"plus_per_slice":{"credits":0.05,"usd":0.005}},"unit":"per company, plus each slice with data","note":"the employer in depth","call":{"mcp_tool":"get_company","arguments":{"id":85},"rest":"https://alion.io/mcp/rest/get_company?id=85"},"human":"https://alion.io/catalog?offer=company.slices&for=job%2Fcognizant-sap-security-consultant"},{"id":"market.stats","title":"A market slice: pay, demand and time to fill","status":"live","price":{"credits":1,"usd":0.1},"unit":"per slice","note":"pay, demand and time to fill for this role and place","call":{"mcp_tool":"market_stats"},"human":"https://alion.io/catalog?offer=market.stats&for=job%2Fcognizant-sap-security-consultant"},{"id":"job.search","title":"Open jobs by role, technology, place, pay and visa","status":"live","price":{"credits":0.02,"usd":0.002},"unit":"per posting in a list","note":"similar open postings","call":{"mcp_tool":"search_jobs"},"human":"https://alion.io/catalog?offer=job.search&for=job%2Fcognizant-sap-security-consultant"},{"id":"company.verify","title":"Is this company real and active right now","status":"pilot","price":null,"unit":"per company","request":{"url":"https://alion.io/catalog/request","method":"POST","body":"{\"offer\": \"company.verify\", \"for\": \"job/cognizant-sap-security-consultant\", \"note\": \"what you need it for\"}"},"human":"https://alion.io/catalog?offer=company.verify&for=job%2Fcognizant-sap-security-consultant"}]}