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Security Architect

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Remote · South Africa Full-time Senior 4w ago

About the role

About IntePros

IntePros is an established, woman-owned, privately-held technology and business services consulting agency committed to building long-term relationships and helping more companies leverage the power of a more diverse workforce. It was founded in 1996, and is headquartered in Lexington, Massachusetts, USA, with a workforce of 201-500 employees.

Responsibilities

  • Serve as the dedicated security architect for assigned initiatives, owning architectural decisions across SAP and non-SAP components
  • Define, document, and maintain the end-to-end security architecture, including applications, integrations, infrastructure, cloud services, identity, and security controls
  • Ensure solutions align with enterprise security standards while meeting project-specific functional, delivery, and timeline requirements
  • Act as the primary point of accountability for project security posture and technical risk
  • Review and govern SAP and non-SAP solution architectures to ensure secure interoperability across the full ecosystem
  • Drive consistent application of security principles across SAP modules, supporting systems, middleware, and enterprise platforms
  • Identify, assess, and manage project-specific security risks, threats, and architectural gaps impacting confidentiality, integrity, or availability
  • Conduct security architecture reviews, threat modeling, and design assessments throughout the project lifecycle
  • Recommend and drive implementation of architectural changes and compensating controls to mitigate risk
  • Ensure compliance with internal security policies, regulatory requirements, and applicable industry standards
  • Review project-specific infrastructure and network designs across on-prem, cloud, and hybrid environments
  • Ensure secure connectivity, segmentation, encryption, and network controls across SAP and non-SAP systems
  • Partner with infrastructure and cloud teams to meet security, resiliency, performance, and availability requirements
  • Ensure consistent identity and access management across SAP and non-SAP platforms
  • Embed data protection requirements—classification, encryption, key management, and retention—into solution designs
  • Work hands-on with project teams during design, build, and deployment to ensure architectures are implemented as intended
  • Support remediation of security issues identified during development, testing, and deployment
  • Perform root-cause analysis for project-related security issues and recommend preventive improvements
  • Support automation of vulnerability scanning, configuration validation, and security monitoring
  • Represent security architecture in governance forums, design reviews, and milestone checkpoints
  • Communicate security risks, decisions, and trade-offs clearly to technical and business stakeholders
  • Coordinate with enterprise architecture and security governance teams to ensure alignment without slowing delivery
  • Collaborate with enterprise, cloud, data, and network architects as needed while retaining overall ownership of project security architecture

Skills

  • Proven experience delivering end-to-end security and IT architecture for large-scale projects or programs (hands-on delivery, not advisory only)
  • Strong understanding of secure-by-design and defense-in-depth architecture principles
  • Experience designing across applications, integrations, infrastructure, cloud, and networks
  • Working knowledge of cloud security architectures (AWS and/or Azure)
  • Familiarity with IAM, PAM, encryption, logging, and monitoring within complex project environments
  • Ability to balance security rigor with delivery timelines and practical implementation constraints
  • Strong documentation, communication, and stakeholder management skills
  • SAP S/4HANA and S/4HANA RISE security architecture and implementation
  • SAP GRC for access control and risk management
  • SAP Fiori security and role-based access control design
  • SAP HANA database security, encryption, and secure configuration
  • SAP Cloud Platform and integration security best practices
  • SAP user provisioning, identity management, and authorization concepts
  • SAP security audit tools, vulnerability scanning, and automation capabilities

Company H1B Sponsorship

IntePros has a track record of offering H1B sponsorships, with 3 in 2025, 3 in 2024, 6 in 2023, 7 in 2022, 6 in 2021, 13 in 2020. Please note that this does not guarantee sponsorship for this specific role.

Skills

AWSAzureCloud PlatformCloud securityData protectionDefense-in-depthEncryptionGRCHANAIAMIntegrationsIT architectureLoggingMonitoringNetwork securityPAMS/4HANASAPSecure-by-designSecurity architectureSecurity controlsSecurity risksThreat modelingVulnerability scanning

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