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What you’ll do

Join an extraordinary team of innovative engineers, designers, and product managers at SAP Learning Systems — a dynamic hub within the global SAP Learning organization. Our mission is to revolutionize how the SAP ecosystem learns and upskills, creating impactful solutions for our customers and partners. Nestled in the city of Barcelona, our diverse, multicultural, and cross-functional team embodies the agility of a startup, coupled with the scale and influence of a global enterprise.

As a Product Security Engineer, you will play a pivotal role in shaping the security landscape for SAP Learning products, applications, and services. Joining a youthful and ambitious team, you will be responsible for developing and maintaining end-to-end security concepts across our landscape. You will maintain awareness of industry security architecture best practices, and research and test their applicability. You will work with product management, product engineering, and other cyber security professionals to design and implement secure processes and development practices.

Key responsibilities include:

• Security Governance & Compliance:

  • Understand and contribute to SAP's standards, enterprise governance, and global security policies.

  • Act as the subject matter expert in Application (AppSec) and Operational (OppSec) security risk management.

• Risk Assessment & Mitigation:

  • Oversee security risks, conduct targeted security risk assessments, and review security exceptions.

  • Understand the concrete agile delivery process of the organisation and ensure that the delivery is reinforced with all quality and security standards

  • Evaluate the criticality of the security vulnerabilities and risks to ensure an outstanding time-to-marked

  • Actively work on automation together with the agile teams to streamline the quality of the delivery

• Strategic Leadership:

  • Advise corporate leadership on risk reduction proposals, backed by cost justifications.

  • Provide leadership, mentoring, and training to security personnel and other SAP stakeholders.

• Collaboration & Communication:

  • Work collaboratively with internal and external partners for third-party security assessments.

  • Develop and monitor security risk metrics, providing periodic updates to executive management.

What you’ll bring

• BA/BS in Computer Science, Information Security, Business Administration or related work experience

• Minimum of five (5) years of managing IT initiatives/project management required

• Minimum of five (5) years information security, audit, risk management, compliance or risk consulting related experience preferred

• Experience working with Azure Pipelines, GitHub, and GitOps

• Experience managing vulnerabilities with multiple SAST, FOSS and IP-Scan analysis tools for large solutions

• Hands-on experience securing, managing and/or designing micro-service cloud solutions

• Knowledge and experience on network and application security on cloud infrastructure including Azure and SAP BTP (Cloud Foundry and Kyma) preferred

• Experience using Governance, Risk and Compliance (GRC) tools preferred

• Security certification, e.g. CISSP, CISA - CRISC preferred

• Ability to demonstrate analytical expertise, close attention to detail, excellent conflicesolution and negotiation skills, logic, and solution orientation and to learn and adapt quickly, thinking out of the box mindset

• Excellent written and oral communication skills in English

• Ability to understand and operate in a dynamic and agile environment

• Proven experience working in multi-functional and multi-cultural teams

• Proactive, self-managed, and able to interface well with sponsor personnel and inter-disciplinary teams across an organization

• Experience with information security compliance audit frameworks and requirements, e.g. NIST, COBIT, CMMI, ISO27001, FISMA, FedRAMP, SOC, SOX, PCI-DSS, GDPR and Data Privacy

About the Team

SAP Learning System is building and running SAP’s next generation learning and community experience. We are a newly created organization within SAP Learning, the education, training and adoption unit within SAP.

We’re a 200+ people team, fast running and laser-focused, with a bold vision: enable more than 2M people to learn, upskill and join the SAP ecosystem per year. Given our central role in SAP’s ecosystem, the huge market buzz on moving to cloud, and our unique setup with strong existing assets such as SAP Learning Hub, openSAP and the SAP Community, we believe we have the opportunity of a lifetime to make a big impact in the world of B2B software.

We build breakthroughs together

SAP innovations help more than 400,000 customers worldwide work together more efficiently and use business insight more effectively. Originally known for leadership in enterprise resource planning (ERP) software, SAP has evolved to become a market leader in end-to-end business application software and related services for database, analytics, intelligent technologies, and experience management. As a cloud company with 200 million users and more than 100,000 employees worldwide, we are purpose-driven and future-focused, with a highly collaborative team ethic and commitment to personal development. Whether connecting global industries, people, or platforms, we help ensure every challenge gets the solution it deserves. At SAP, we build breakthroughs, together.

We win with inclusion

SAP’s culture of inclusion, focus on health and well-being, and flexible working models help ensure that everyone – regardless of background – feels included and can run at their best. At SAP, we believe we are made stronger by the unique capabilities and qualities that each person brings to our company, and we invest in our employees to inspire confidence and help everyone realize their full potential. We ultimately believe in unleashing all talent and creating a better and more equitable world.
SAP is proud to be an equal opportunity workplace and is an affirmative action employer. We are committed to the values of Equal Employment Opportunity and provide accessibility accommodations to applicants with physical and/or mental disabilities. If you are interested in applying for employment with SAP and are in need of accommodation or special assistance to navigate our website or to complete your application, please send an e-mail with your request to Recruiting Operations Team: Careers@sap.com
For SAP employees: Only permanent roles are eligible for the SAP Employee Referral Program, according to the eligibility rules set in the SAP Referral Policy. Specific conditions may apply for roles in Vocational Training.

EOE AA M/F/Vet/Disability:

Qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to their age, race, religion, national origin, ethnicity, age, gender (including pregnancy, childbirth, et al), sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, protected veteran status, or disability.
Successful candidates might be required to undergo a background verification with an external vendor.

Requisition ID: 384959 | Work Area: Solution and Product Management | Expected Travel: 0 - 10% | Career Status: Professional | Employment Type: Regular Full Time | Additional Locations: #LI-Hybrid.

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