Security Architect

A career in IBM Consulting is rooted by long-term relationships and close collaboration with clients across the globe. You'll work with visionaries across multiple industries to improve the hybrid cloud and AI journey for the most innovative and valuable companies in the world. Your ability to accelerate impact and make meaningful change for your clients is enabled by our strategic partner ecosystem and our robust technology platforms across the IBM portfolio; including Software and Red Hat. Curiosity and a constant quest for knowledge serve as the foundation to success in IBM Consulting. In your role, you'll be encouraged to challenge the norm, investigate ideas outside of your role, and come up with creative solutions resulting in groundbreaking impact for a wide network of clients. Our culture of evolution and empathy centers on long-term career growth and development opportunities in an environment that embraces your unique skills and experience.

Your role and responsibilities

The PAM Security professional will be responsible for providing expertise and guidance to clients for developing strategies and technical roadmaps for digital identity solutions across customer identity, identity governance, and privileged access management. The successful candidate will lead architecture and design workshops, will be hands on and have the ability to lead a team of specialists implementing, configuring and integration identity suite of products and manage operations support for large PAM implementations. As a PAM Security professional, it will be required that you work closely with clients to understand their business requirements, assess their existing systems, and recommend optimal solutions. The role will involve collaborating with cross-functional teams, conducting workshops and training sessions, and providing ongoing support to ensure successful implementation and adoption of technology solutions.

We are hiring for multiple roles so your experience in one or more products for one or multiple identity domains will be highly regarded.

Responsibilities & Duties:

1. Engage with clients to understand their business needs and objectives related to privileged access management.
2. Assess clients' existing systems, processes, and infrastructure to identify gaps and opportunities for Digital Identity integration.
3. Design and architect PAM solutions tailored to meet clients' requirements.
4. Collaborate with technical teams to ensure successful implementation, configuration, and customization of PAM products.
5. Conduct workshops and training sessions for clients' stakeholders to educate them on PAM functionalities and best practices.
6. Provide guidance and support to clients throughout the project lifecycle, including troubleshooting, issue resolution, and ongoing maintenance.
7. Document project requirements, specifications, and deliverables.
8. Coordinate, collate and validate artifacts related to Audit queries based on this provide remediation of identified gaps.
9. Support operations team for PAM environment that involves but not limited to minor security patches, application onboarding, and operations management.
10. Coach and mentor junior security consultants and develop skills in the team in selected vendor products.

You thrive in a fast-paced environment, take initiative and are collaborative.

Required education

Bachelor's Degree

Preferred education

Associate's Degree/College Diploma

Required technical and professional expertise

Required Professional and Technical Expertise:

1. Degree in Information Technology or Computer Science or Network / Telecommunications Engineer B.Tech., B.E, MCA, M.Sc. IT (Mandatory either of these).
2. 12+ years of experience in PAM Architecture Design, PAM Consulting, Identity and Access Governance, Privileged Access Management experience.
3. Specialized on: IBM PAM Products like SailPoint, Saviynt, Okta, EntraID, CyberArk, BeyondTrust.
4. Proven experience as a PAM security professional in client-facing role, preferably in the field of identity and access management.
5. Familiarity with related technologies such as SSO (Single Sign-On), multi-factor authentication (MFA), and identity federation.
6. Experience with identity and access management (PAM) frameworks, protocols, and standards (e.g., OAuth, OpenID Connect, SAML).
7. Proficiency in designing and implementing PAM solutions in complex enterprise environments.
8. Experience in managing operations in large PAM implementations.

Preferred technical and professional experience

Preferred Professional and Technical Expertise:

Professional Qualifications - Desired – Any Certification in cyber security like CISSP, CISP.

ABOUT BUSINESS UNIT

IBM Consulting is IBM's consulting and global professional services business, with market leading capabilities in business and technology transformation. With deep expertise in many industries, we offer strategy, experience, technology, and operations services to many of the most innovative and valuable companies in the world. Our people are focused on accelerating our clients' businesses through the power of collaboration. We believe in the power of technology responsibly used to help people, partners and the planet.

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OTHER RELEVANT JOB DETAILS

For additional information about location requirements, please discuss with the recruiter following submission of your application.

Job Title: Security Architect - PAM

Job ID: 28198

City / Township / Village: MELBOURNE, SYDNEY

State / Province: Australia

Work arrangement: Hybrid

Area of work: Security

Employment type: Regular

Position type: Professional

No Travel

Company: (0008) IBM Australia Limited

Shift: General (daytime)

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