Senior Manager, SAP Security Architect, Deloitte Global Technology

Job Type: Permanent
Work Model: Remote
Reference code: 135442
Primary Location: Toronto, ON
All Available Locations: Toronto, ON; Ottawa, ON

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This role owns security architecture and design across the Enterprise Solutions portfolio. It defines how the portfolio's platforms — predominantly SAP (S/4HANA, SAP BTP, SAP Business Data Cloud, SAP HANA, Ariba, Fieldglass, Concur, and SuccessFactors), together with the Azure services and the AI and agentic platforms that increasingly surround and extend them — are designed, integrated, and operated securely. Working as a hands-on technical authority within the Enterprise Solutions Architecture team, the role establishes security patterns, identity and access designs, and control standards that every solution in the portfolio is expected to follow, and partners closely with the global cyber team to see those designs safely into production.

As the portfolio is modernized and “agentified” — embedding AI copilots and autonomous agents such as SAP Joule into core business platforms — the security expertise this role brings is central to success. Securing agentic AI (how agents authenticate, what data and actions they are authorized for, and how their behavior is governed) is the fastest-growing and highest-stakes area of the portfolio's risk surface. This role is expected to lead that agenda, not merely keep pace with it, and a genuine passion for agentic AI and its secure adoption is essential to the position.

The position is an individual-contributor architect role: it leads through technical expertise, influence, and the strength of its designs rather than through direct people management. Although the role has no direct reports, it provides dotted-line technical leadership — defining security architecture, standards, and security-related priorities for the DTECH Enterprise Solutions security team and the Basis team to implement. It does not guide these teams' day-to-day work. It is a trusted advisor to project teams, platform owners, and leadership on how to protect enterprise data and identities across a complex, multi-cloud, SAP-centric estate.

What will your typical day look like?

Security architecture & design

• Own Enterprise Solutions security architecture, reference designs, patterns and controls across SAP/non-SAP platforms.
• Produce architecture overviews, high/low-level designs and decision records; review security risk before deployment.
• Embed security-by-design and zero-trust principles, including data protection, encryption, segmentation and secure SAP BTP/Azure integrations.
• Conduct risk assessments, threat modeling and design reviews; define and track mitigations.

AI & agentic platform security

• Lead security architecture for AI/agentic platforms, including SAP Joule and GenAI capabilities.
• Define agent identity, authentication, authorization, least-privilege access, delegation, data limits and human-in-the-loop controls.
• Establish prompt-injection/data-exfiltration defenses and secure agent-to-system and agent-to-agent (A2A) patterns.
• Set guardrails for agentic development, including Claude and MCP integrations, protecting enterprise data and risk posture.

SAP platform security

• Govern S/4HANA, SAP BTP, BDC, HANA, Ariba, Fieldglass, Concur and SuccessFactors security, including authorization, role design, segregation of duties and secure data flows.
• Define standards for SAP data in transit/at rest and third-party integrations.

Identity & access management

• Define BTP identity architecture covering SAP Cloud Identity Services (IAS/IPS), trust, role collections and federation; a design/advisory role, not hands-on configuration.
• Design authentication/SSO using OAuth 2.0/OIDC, SAML 2.0 and token patterns; define federation across SAP and Microsoft Entra ID/Azure AD.
• Define identity lifecycle, provisioning/de-provisioning and least-privilege patterns aligned with IAM governance.

Cloud (Azure) security

• Advise on Azure identity, network security, key/secrets management and workload protection.
• Ensure landing-zone, networking and resilience patterns meet security/compliance expectations.

Leadership, governance & advisory

• Provide dotted-line technical leadership to the DTECH Enterprise Solutions security team, setting standards and guidance.
• Define Basis standards for secure configuration, hardening, patching and access.
• Act as security design authority, providing assurance/sign-off for security-critical designs.
• Align with global cyber strategy and standards; ensure compliance with SOX, data-privacy and regulatory requirements.
• Facilitate cyber reviews/remediation and support Annual Controls and Member Firm Controls Audits with security evidence.
• Advise senior stakeholders on security risks/trade-offs and mentor architects and engineers.

About the team

Deloitte Technology works at the forefront of technology development and processes to support and protect Deloitte around the world. In this truly global environment, we operate not in "what is" but rather "what can be" to help Deloitte deliver and connect with its clients, its communities, and one another in ways not previously conceived.

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Qualifications

Required

• 10+ years of experience in enterprise IT, with a substantial track record in solution or security architecture on large, complex programs.
• Deep, hands-on security architecture experience across a SAP-centric landscape — demonstrable work securing S/4HANA and other SAP applications, and designing secure integrations between them.
• Strong command of identity and access management, including practical experience with OAuth 2.0 / OIDC and SAML 2.0, single sign-on, federation, and identity lifecycle/provisioning.
• Strong knowledge of identity management on SAP BTP (SAP Cloud Identity Services — IAS/IPS, trust, role collections, and federation), sufficient to define the architecture, standards, and guidelines for implementation teams.
• Working knowledge of Microsoft Azure security services and cloud security patterns (identity, network, key/secrets management), including integration between Azure and SAP.
• Proven ability to produce security architecture artifacts (HLD/LLD/ADRs), lead threat modeling and security/risk assessments, and drive designs into production.
• Experience partnering with an enterprise or global cyber function — aligning designs to cyber and regulatory standards, and preparing for and successfully navigating cyber/security architecture reviews.
• Demonstrated knowledge of AI and agentic AI concepts and associated security risks, with experience, training, certification, or project work involving LLMs, AI agents, SAP Joule, Claude, MCP-based integrations, or comparable technologies.
• Experience influencing and advising senior stakeholders and delivery teams as a recognized technical authority, and leading technical teams through influence and dotted-line relationships rather than direct authority.

Preferred

• Familiarity with SAP Business Data Cloud (BDC) and SAP HANA security, and with cloud procurement/HR SaaS platforms in the portfolio (Ariba, Fieldglass, Concur, SuccessFactors).
• Hands-on experience securing production AI/agentic deployments — agent identity and authorization, prompt/output safeguards, and agent-to-agent (A2A) or MCP-based integration security.
• Relevant security certifications (e.g., CISSP, CCSP, SABSA, TOGAF) and/or Azure security certifications (e.g., AZ-500) and SAP credentials.
• Familiarity with zero-trust, OWASP, RBAC/ABAC/ReBAC authorization models, and regulatory/compliance frameworks (e.g., SOX, data-privacy regulations).

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