Bilingual Digital Identity (IAM) Security Manager

Job Description 

IAM Security Manager

Toronto, Montreal, Ottawa

Join Accenture and help transform leading organizations and communities around the world. The sheer scale of our capabilities and client engagements and the way we collaborate, operate and deliver value provides an unparalleled opportunity to grow and advance. Choose Accenture and make delivering innovative work part of your extraordinary career.

Why join Accenture’s Security team
Serving as a trusted security partner for more than 20 years to more than 330 clients across ~70 countries, Accenture’s Security practice helps organizations build resilience from the inside out so they can operate and grow confidently in a rapidly evolving threat landscape. Our 5000 security professionals bring exceptional industry expertise to tailor intelligent security services to our clients’ unique businesses and industries. We provide a full spectrum of services – from security strategy development, to business transformation to managed security services – on demand and at a global scale.

Leveraging our global resources and next-generation technologies, we create an integrated, comprehensive program tailored to each organization’s specific business goals and industry. Recognizing that there is no finish line in securing enterprises, we are constantly collaborating at our global cyber labs and centers with our broad, interdisciplinary innovation ecosystem of the best minds in security. Our focus on continuous innovation gives us a front lines perspective that ensures we are adapting to match the pace of security challenges.

Accenture’s unique ability to combine deep Security expertise across Strategy, Technology and Operations means that we are able to offer clients an enterprise-wide security program to predict, protect, detect, and respond to threats in an industry specific context.

JOB DESCRIPTION

We are currently looking for professionals for our Digital Identity, Managed Security Services (MSS ) practice with extensive experience in the following:
• Proven success in leading a team and work creatively and analytically in a problem-solving environment
• Desire to work in a fast paced and highly collaborative environment with Excellent leadership, communication (written and oral) and interpersonal skills
• Can apply deep security skills to design, build and protect enterprise systems, applications, data, assets and people for Accenture and our clients

• The role implies day-to-day IAM operations in a regulated, complex environment. It requires deep understanding of the IAM operations pertaining to Identity Governance and Authentication

 • Working directly with clients and Accenture teams in a multi-disciplined team structure, supporting clients’ IAM application stack as a go to subject-matter-expert in operating large-scale IAM deployments.
• Developing deep working relationships with Senior Executives and Senior Managers across the client account team and client.
• Identifying opportunity to optimize operations through automation and identifying other areas of improvements.

Qualifications

Job Qualifications

• 5-7 years of experience managing assets such as SailPoint Identity IQ and Azure Active

Directory/Entra ID

• 5-7 years of IAM Operations experience with strong knowledge of IAM processes and leading practices

• Bilingual (English and French) is a must have

• Must have or at least qualify for Federal Government security clearance

• Ability to understand business requirements and translate them to functional requirements/technological solutions in Identity Governance and Administration processes and interaction with supporting processes and technologies (e.g., HR, ITSM, SOC, etc.)

• Experience in Incident Management and Change Management

• Good knowledge of MS Active Directory and MS Azure Active Directory

• Leadership skills – team currently comprises of 5-10 offshore resources

• Communication skills – ability to articulate in written and verbal business cases, risk memos, etc.
• Effective skill presenting findings, conclusions, alternatives and information clearly and concisely to senior leaders and business stakeholders, relationship building, negotiation and facilitation skills

 Desired Skills:

• Experience with other areas of IAM privileged access management or Access Management
• Demonstrated creativity in complex problem solving and ability to work under pressure
• Strong project/program management experience
• Ability to take business problems, existing processes and technology and translate these into service and process requirements
• Effective communicator with great interpersonal skills and the ability to be credible with clients
• Strong analytical skills with a structured problem-solving approach
• High energy levels and commitment to stringent timelines
• Ability to innovate and multi-task with minimal oversight
• Strong written and verbal communication skills with the ability to present documentation and influence decision making
 
Locations
Ontario – Ottawa, Ontario – Toronto, Quebec – Montreal

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