About this role
Senior Identity and Access Management (IAM) Specialist
Responsibilities
- IAM Governance and Business Requirements: Ability to define, document, and validate IAM-related business, governance, security, and operational requirements across applications, systems, and user populations.
- Architecture and Solution Oversight: Ability to review solution designs from a business, security, governance, and architecture perspective to ensure alignment with least privilege, segregation of duties, access control standards, and operational requirements.
- Lifecycle and Access Governance Processes: Working knowledge of JML, SoD, access certification, access request and approval workflows, role or entitlement models, privileged access controls, and identity lifecycle policies.
- Testing and Validation: Capability to prepare or review test scenarios, coordinate user acceptance testing, validate expected access behavior, confirm control requirements, track defects, and support readiness sign-off.
- Stakeholder and Application Onboarding Coordination: Ability to coordinate with application owners, technical teams, process owners, and vendors to obtain data, validate requirements, confirm integration readiness, and support onboarding activities.
- Operational Readiness and Transition: Ability to assess operational impacts, define support requirements, accept knowledge transfer, prepare handover documentation, and support long-term ownership after go-live.
- Compliance and Risk Awareness: Understanding of access control policies, audit expectations, regulatory requirements, security baselines, and risk management practices applicable to IAM and privileged access environments.
Qualifications
- Has Bachelor's Degree in Information Security, Computer Science, Information Technology, or a related field.
- 5+ years of relevant experience in Identity and Access Management, cybersecurity, IT security governance, application security, infrastructure security, or enterprise access management projects.
- Hands-on involvement in IAM-related initiatives such as IGA, PAM, Active Directory, MFA, Single Sign-On, access request workflows.