Identity & Access Management (IAM) Consultant

Job Description

IntroductionInformation and Data are some of the most important organizational assets in today?s businesses. As a Security Consultant, you will be a key advisor for IBM?s clients, analyzing business requirements to design and implement the best security solutions for their needs. You will apply your technical skills to find the balance between enabling and securing the client?s organization with the cognitive solutions that are making IBM the fastest growing enterprise security business in the world.Your Role and ResponsibilitiesThe IAM Consultant will assist clients in developing an overall Identity and Access Management strategy, roadmap and vision based on business, technology and security objectives, with the ability to conduct maturity assessments, make domain specific recommendations, the consultant will be focused on delivering a business outcome and may need to include systems, applications and process components at the strategic and operational level.You?ll engage clients and work to understand their business needs, works in levels of abstraction, apply industry knowledge, and leverage the appropriate business elements and information technology to address those needs. In addition, advise clients in understanding the desired future IAM landscape and work collaboratively with them to develop a roadmap to achieve this goal and become a trusted advisor.This includes working as a team member with client personnel to identify functional and non-functional requirements and subsequently working on the identification, justification and design of the client?s IAM solution. Acting as lead Consultant where necessary to guide project teams in the delivery of the clients requirements.Are you passionate about keeping current and open to new ideas? To develop your knowledge, along with the cooperative nature of the team, you will be encouraged to constantly learn and improve. You will also have access to the global IBM education portal which you are also encouraged to explore as we believe that education and development should not be exclusively Identity based. Making time to think and explore leads us to develop new ideas and to be better able to help our clients. We are focused on developing talent and industry leading skills. IBM believes in career growth and flexibility. If your desire is to help empower people with unmatched security while working in a supportive and engaging environment, your career and your future will be made with IBM.General responsibilitiesResponsible for managing all the activities related to delivering a security led IAM solution for the duration of their engagement, including but not limited to:

• Consulting ? comfortable in facilitating workshops, giving presentations, producing high quality deliverables,
• Leadership ? supporting all aspects of the solution, consulting colleagues, the technical team, managing client requirements and linking those requirements to IBM?s solution,
• Creating & delivering the solution element of IAM proposals, this could be administrative, operational or technical,
• Supporting the definition and creation of a solution that meets the client?s requirements,
• Understanding the IAM Posture of the client, including their drivers and appetite, risk, legal, regulatory and compliance drivers for the client
• Providing visibility and understanding the functional and non-functional requirements of the solution
• Assisting client facing colleagues with responding to requests for proposals

Required Technical and Professional Expertise

• Experience developing Solution Proposals for IAM solutions,
• Can perform Requirement gathering, definition and refinement whilst ensuring traceability throughout the lifecycle of delivery.
• Comfortable facilitating workshops, often as the lead presenter,
• Experience of conducting IAM Maturity assessments and making recommendations,
• Creating an IAM strategy based on client requirements, objectives and vision,
• Target Model assessment and definition,
• Able to clearly articulate the value and benefits of IAM through short, medium and long term roadmaps,
• Producing clear and professional documentation, including ability to document and visualize processes, define test cases, write operational end user guides,
• Presentation skills for C-Level clients,
• At least 5 years? experience as IAM Consultant, defining and delivering IAM solutions in complex multi-technology environments,
• Experienced the entire lifecycle of an IAM deployment on at least 2 occasions, in large scale transformation engagements, from requirements gathering, design, testing through to production go live and end user release,
• Knowledge of top (analysts) quadrant IAM Technologies,
• Experience of at least two of the following IAM Domains:
  • Identity Governance; identity life-cycle, provisioning/provisioning, workflow automation, self-service, request and approval workflow, Role Based Access Control, Segregation of duties, application integration techniques, Related business and security standards, policies processes and procedures,
  • Privileged Access Management; Vaulting, Session Recording, Access Controls methods such as Sudo. Hard coded password approaches, Operating System, Database, Application integration and methods. Related business and security standards, policies processes and procedures
  • Access Management; Single-Sign-on, Access Federation, Desktop Single Sign-on, Advanced and Multi Factor Authorisation, RBAC/ABAC, Application Integration.
  • Cloud Entitlement Management:
  • Cloud Native IAM: Azure, AWS or others.
  • Identity Analytics: User Behaviors, AI, Analytics
• Experience working with at least two of the following IAM Technologies: IBM IAM suite, CyberArk, Sailpoint, Oracle, BeyondTrust,

While not prerequisites, the following will be advantageous:

• Stakeholder and scope management
• Experience in the Consumer/Customer Identity Management domain
• A recognized certification in security appropriate to the role for example: CISSP, CISMP, CompTIA Security +, ITIL qualification etc.

Preferred Technical and Professional ExpertiseWhile not prerequisites, the following will be advantageous:

• Stakeholder and scope management
• A recognized certification in security appropriate to the role for example: CISSP, CISMP, CompTIA Security +, ITIL qualification etc.
• Experience working with following IAM Technologies: Thycotic, Okta

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