Senior Data Protection and Privacy Technical Engineer - SAP SuccessFactors

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** This is a hybrid job opportunity requiring you to work three times a week in SAP Bay Area locations (Palo Alto, San Ramon or San Francisco) **

What you'll do

SAP SuccessFactors, Business Information Security Office (BISO) Application Security, is looking for a Senior Data Protection and Privacy Technical Engineer:

• You’ll play a key role in automating DPP (Data Protection and Privacy) controls and erect DPP checkpoints into the CI/CD pipeline to enforce them at release decision time.
• You’ll execute data protection incident response process to respond to and mitigate DPP incidents.
• You’ll analyze cross border data flows, 3rd party vendor data flows to detect DPP risks due to them.
• You’ll own EU Access compliance assessment for SAP Successfactors, detect EU Access gaps and work with various teams to implement concrete remediations.
• You’ll be on top of the various DPP regulations know-how and their impact on SAP Successfactors and recommend technical mitigations to help with compliance.
• You’ll be responsible for detecting cookie usage within Successfactors and perform subprocess due diligence with BISO compliance team to mitigate the third party DPP related risks.
• You'll to conduct PoCs for privacy tool recommendations for privacy code scanning, data classification and governance tools, cookie and tracking technologies usage tools in collaboration with SAP Global security’s DPP team.

What you bring

• Have strong privacy engineering background and application security experience to help with implementing and enforcing DPP controls in our secure software dev lifecycle.
• You should have in-depth understanding of DPP requirements identification, solutioning and privacy engineering concepts.
• Minimum of 3 years of experience in cloud product application-level security.
• You should be able to assess DPP risks from internal testing as well as from customer reported Data protection assessments and design solutions to mitigate the privacy risks.
• Hands on experience regarding security and privacy engineering tooling such as automation tools for Threat modeling, Privacy code scanners, Cookie and data flow detection tools.
• Good understanding of Secure software development lifecycle implementation, OWASP top 10 application security as well as LLM vulnerability preventions, NIST 2.0 and privacy framework, Privacy by design approaches.
• Hands-on experience for Splunk and SIEM log analysis when troubleshooting a security, DPP issue.
• Expert understanding of SAP’s DPP corporate requirements and implementation details for SAP Successfactors
• Ability to operate with the team in Kanban model.
• Ability to coordinate and work with global team spread across USA, Shanghai, Germany, India and Budapest
• Ability to attend mandatory 6am pacific time team meeting once a week on Wednesday.
• Ability to clearly articulate DPP gaps, design the solution and drive it end-to-end.
• Excellent communication, articulation skills and problem solving attitude, curiosity to learn new security and DPP tools, techniques to resolve new privacy challenges due to new technologies such as AI and new regulations

Nice to haves:

• Solid understanding of secure SaaS and multi-tenancy application design
• Hands-on experience in assessing pen test reports, analyzing customer reported DPP tickets and find correct remediations by working with engineering teams.
• Privacy Industry gold standard certifications such as CIPP and CIP

Meet the team

Business Information Security Office (BISO) Application Security team is responsible for innovating tools, techniques and processes for embedding privacy controls in automated manner to implement privacy at scale, privacy by design and privacy in code principles for SAP Successfactors.

Be part of a cross organizational team responsible for designing and implementing secure by default and privacy by design architecture, privacy in the code, security and DPP controls, security and privacy tools and development practices for SAP SuccessFactors. 

**Location: ***Hybrid working from any SAP Labs SFO Bay area locations (Palo Alto, San Ramon or San Francisco) + home office.

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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.

Compensation Range Transparency: SAP believes the value of pay transparency contributes towards an honest and supportive culture and is a significant step toward demonstrating SAP’s commitment to pay equity. SAP provides the annualized compensation range inclusive of base salary and variable incentive target for the career level applicable to the posted role. The targeted combined range for this position is 141,700 - 294,700 USD. The actual amount to be offered to the successful candidate will be within that range, dependent upon the key aspects of each case which may include education, skills, experience, scope of the role, location, etc. as determined through the selection process. Any SAP variable incentive includes a targeted dollar amount and any actual payout amount is dependent on company and personal performance. Please reference this link for a summary of SAP benefits and eligibility requirements: SAP North America Benefits.

Requisition ID: 412552 | 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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