Senior Identity & Access Management Specialist

Talent is recruiting for an experienced Senior Identity and Access Management Specialist to join our client in the Education Sector based in St Lucia, Brisbane on a long-term contract through until March 2026.

// Senior IAM Specialist
// Contract until end of June 2026
// Higher Education Sector

Responsibilities:

Conduct detailed technical discovery of various IAM components such as systems of record ingestion, access policies, MFA services, SSO, federated services, etc.
Document and/or assist with documentation associated with detailed designs, key decision papers, options analysis, etc.
Conduct key stakeholder meetings with both technical and non-technical audiences.
Assist with the implementation of the new IAM platform and the associated services.
Assist with the transition of services from the current platform to the new platform.
Conduct and/or assist with reporting of technical elements for the project.
Collaborate strongly with the project manager, program architect, business analyst, implementation partner and operation support team.
Provide technical advice and guidance for the operational support teams.

Qualifications / Accreditations:

IAM related technical qualifications (eg: Okta Certified Professional or Azure Identity & Access Administrator)
Desirable: Bachelor of Information Technology (or similar degree)

Ideal Skills:

Centralised IAM solutions such as Okta, Ping ID, Entra ID, etc.
Downstream directory services such as Active Directory or similar
Multi-Factor Authentication systems
Passwordless authentication services
Business to Business (B2B) guest access
Consumer to Business (CSB) guest access (Social account access)
Identity Governance and Administration
SCIM (System for Cross-Domain Identity Management) user and group provisioning
Deep knowledge of standards and protocols such as SAML, OAuth, WS-FED, OpenID Connect, Kerberos.
Design and implement Role-Based Access Control (RBAC), Attribute-Based Access Control (ABAC), and other access management models.
Proficiency in scripting and automation tools (PowerShell, Python, Bash).
Knowledge of APIs and RESTful services for integrating IAM solutions with other enterprise applications.
Technical writing and documentation.
Translating technical details into business-friendly language.
Training and mentoring IT teams or end-users on the future IAM platform features and practices.

Experience:

At least 5 years’ experience working directly within an IAM team (or similar) as a technical specialist.
Created design specification documentation from start to completion.
Worked on large scale IAM projects.
2+ years of experience in designing and deploying solutions on Microsoft Azure platform and experience in workload migrations.
Experience with public cloud platforms, including design, implementation and workload migration.
Strong experience with Microsoft Azure services (IaaS and PaaS).
Understanding of the Microsoft Cloud Adoption Framework, Enterprise Scale Landing Zones and Well Architected Framework and incorporating into Azure designs
Desirable: A key technical resource on an IAM platform that has multiple systems of record (sources of truth).
Desirable: Worked in an IAM team within a university.

How to Apply:
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