Identity & Access Management (IAM) Solution SME

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 Solution Subject Matter Expert will assist clients in building and deploying IAM solutions as per agreed Identity and Access Management, requirements, security architectures and blue prints.Engage clients and work to understand their business to design and implement robust solutions. The SME will need to bring deep product knowledge with experiences from a wide range of industry verticals, wrapped up with all round skills in development methodologies and coding.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 by visiting industry events and workshops. 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 security 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:

• Supporting the creation of architectural designs that translate into solution requirements
• Defining and creating a solution that meets the client?s requirements, is deliverable and commercially viable
• Understanding the functional and non-functional requirements of the system
• Designing, building, testing, and deploying the solution into the client environment

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, Microsoft, OneIdentity, RSA

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