SAP Security Analyst

Role Responsibilities

This role is primarily focused on Business Analysis, including understanding business needs, processes, and requirements. It is not a technical GRC or Security role, and candidates should expect the position to be business-focused rather than technically oriented. This position requires experience in ERP system security. This position is not a cybersecurity role and does not involve technical cybersecurity responsibilities.

Protect critical enterprise systems. Shape secure digital transformation. Make an impact. Bring your SAP security expertise to a role where your technical knowledge, analytical skills, and collaborative approach will help safeguard critical enterprise systems and enable business transformation. Join a team that values innovation, collaboration, and excellence, with opportunities to contribute to high-impact initiatives and continue growing professionally.

Reporting to the 1GX Senior Security Analyst, you will serve as a trusted security expert supporting 1GX/ERA production and non-production environments. You will lead complex security controls across GRC, ERA, HCM/Payroll, Finance, LMS, and SCM platforms, translating business needs into effective security solutions while helping strengthen enterprise-wide security and access management practices.

Some of your responsibilities in this position include but are not limited to:

• Leading SAP security and access management: Develop, maintain, and enhance security policies, standards, roles, and access management practices to protect critical enterprise systems and data.


• Providing strategic security guidance: Translate business requirements into robust, practical security solutions that align with organizational needs and security standards.


• Strengthening risk management and compliance: Play a key role in Security Threat and Risk Assessments (STRA) throughout system lifecycles, identifying risks and supporting appropriate mitigation strategies.


• Resolving complex security challenges: Investigate and resolve escalated access and security issues across production and non-production environments, ensuring effective and timely resolution.


• Collaborating across teams and stakeholders: Work closely with IT, security teams, system integrators, service providers, and business partners to deliver secure, reliable, and effective solutions.


• Contributing to strategic initiatives: Support major enterprise initiatives, including ERA service-provider selection, while providing security expertise and engaging with diverse stakeholders to advance organizational priorities.

To be successful in this position, you will demonstrate:

• Excellent organizational and time management skills. Ability to manage multiple tasks and shifting priorities.


• Strong leadership skills and experience working with diverse stakeholder groups.


• Ability to work in a highly complex/ambiguous environment


• Proactive problem solving, systems thinking, critical thinking, negotiation skills.


• Verbal and written facilitation skills.


• Energetic approach in seeing tasks through to completion.


• Ability to understand and adopt new features related to Artificial Intelligence integration within system.

As technology continues to evolve, future-focused skills matter. Knowledge of emerging technologies, particularly artificial intelligence, automation, and data-driven tools or a strong willingness to learn and adapt, is essential to success in this role. The ideal candidate is curious, adaptable, and committed to continuous learning to help shape smarter, more efficient public service delivery.

The Job Description is provided for further details on this position.

APS Competencies

Competencies are behaviors that are essential to reach our goals in serving Albertans. We encourage you to have an in depth understanding of the competencies that are required for this opportunity and to be prepared to demonstrate them during the recruitment process.

• Agility: you will work in a fast paced, dynamic environment and adapt to changing priorities. Identifies alternative approaches and anticipates obstacles and stays focused on goals. and support others to do the same. 


• Drive for Results: you will have the ability to quickly understand an issue based on and present knowledge and experience and follows through until the issue is resolved. 


• Build Collaborative Environments: fostering collaboration across functional areas, proactively resolving conflicts, promoting innovative thinking on projects, removing obstacles to progress, facilitating seamless communication and collaboration, pre-emptively addressing, and mitigating conflicts, and ensuring due recognition for talented individuals.


• Develop Networks: you will seek out input from a wide range of internal and external stakeholders to solve complex problems and provide the best solutions.


• Systems Thinking: Takes a long-term view towards organization’s objectives and achieving them.


• Creative Problem Solving: Ability to assess options and implications in new ways to achieve outcomes and solutions

Qualifications

Required:

• University graduation in a related field such as Business Administration, Information Technology, Computer Science.


• Minimum of 2 years of progressively responsible related experience in:
  
  
  
  • User management and access provisioning, user risk monitoring, role development in the SAP system.
  
  
  • Role Based user Security, using SAP Governance, Risk & Controls (GRC).
  
  
  • User Security using Documentum or other Content Management systems.
  
  
  • User security in other systems such as OpenText, PeopleSoft.
  
  
  
  

Please note that this position requires experience in ERP system security; this is distinct from general cybersecurity experience.

Equivalencies: Directly related education or experience considered on the basis of:

• 1 year of education for 1 year of experience; or


• 1 year of experience for 1 year of education.

Assets:

• Strong computer knowledge, including Java, Microsoft Office Document Imaging (MODI), Documentum.


• Experience in technical systems such as software applications, networks, security issues, and system testing.


• Experience working with regulations and policies related to records management.


• Experience working with reporting tools such as Documentum Query Language (DQL), Delilah for ECM Documentum, SAP QM 4 reporting, SuccessFactors reporting, GRC Reporting tools or similar.


• Experience in a variety of MS office software (Visio, PowerPoint, Excel, Word, MS Project, etc.)


• Experience with ERP applications and interaction between various modules and components of applications (e.g., HR, SCM, Finance).


• Experience in project planning and management methodologies and best practices.


• Experience in resource management, risk analysis, controls, change and issues management, and progress monitoring and reporting.


• Experience in research, analysis, and interpretation e.g., research issue related to user data protection, or risk assessment and using data analysis tools and techniques to interpret the data and translate into user friendly training.


• Adaptable, forward-thinker, with an eagerness to learn and leverage Artificial Intelligence and emerging technologies to drive operational efficiency.

Minimum recruitment standards outline the minimum education and experience required for appointment to a job classification.

Notes

Terms of Employment: Permanent full-time position

Hours of Work: 36.25hrs/ week – Monday to Friday

Location: Greater Edmonton Area/ Remote across Alberta

Candidates located within the Greater Edmonton Area will be expected to work on-site from designated office location, while those residing outside of Edmonton region may be eligible for remote work. You must reside in Alberta to work remotely for this position. 

Final candidates will be required to undergo security screening.

This competition may be used to fill future vacancies, across the Government of Alberta, at the same or lower classification level.

Applicants are advised to provide a cover letter summarizing information that clearly and concisely demonstrates how their qualifications meet the advertised requirements, including education, experience, and relevant examples of required competencies.

Any costs associated with obtaining the required documents/checks as noted or interview travel expenses, will be the responsibility of the candidate.

Out-of-province applicants can obtain the required documents/checks from the province they currently reside in.

Links and information on what we have to offer:

• Working for the Alberta Public Service


• Public Service Pension Plan (PSPP)


• Alberta Public Service Benefit Information


• Professional learning and development


• Research Alberta Public Service Careers tool


• Positive workplace culture and work-life balance.