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Security Architect

Full-Time
No salary listed
Senior, Expert
Gurugram, Haryana, India+1 moreMore locations: Bengaluru, Karnataka, India
In Person
CybersecuritySecurity Governance, Risk & Compliance

About the job

Requirements
  • At least 7.5 years of experience is required, with the additional information specifying 8–11+ years in identity and access management and 4–6+ years of hands-on SailPoint IdentityNow experience.
  • Fifteen years of full-time education is required.
  • Experience with SailPoint IdentityNow / Identity Security Cloud modules including Identity Lifecycle Management, Access Certifications, Provisioning, Roles and Access Profiles, and Search and Discovery.
  • Experience configuring transforms, identity profiles, correlation rules, lifecycle states, email templates, approval workflows, and lifecycle event triggers.
  • Basic JavaScript knowledge for cloud rules, REST API calls, and JSON manipulation.
  • Experience with Active Directory, Azure Active Directory, Lightweight Directory Access Protocol, and account and group membership troubleshooting.
  • Experience with SailPoint, Okta, ServiceNow, Workday, Salesforce, Java Database Connectivity, delimited-file, SCIM, and Web Services connectors.
  • Knowledge of compliance requirements including SOX, HIPAA, GDPR, and PCI-DSS, including certification campaign management and audit evidence generation.
  • Understanding of SAML, OAuth 2.0, OpenID Connect, and SCIM 2.0 protocols for SaaS application integration.
  • Experience with ServiceNow, Jira, or equivalent IT service management tools for incident management, service-level agreement tracking, and change management.
  • Experience deploying, configuring, and managing Virtual Appliance clusters.
  • Exposure to AWS, Azure, or Google Cloud Platform and knowledge of cloud security principles.
  • Knowledge of PowerShell or Python for automation and data manipulation.
  • Experience with identity and access management team leadership or people management.
  • SailPoint Certified IdentityIQ or Identity Security Cloud certification and ITIL Foundation certification are listed as professional qualifications.
Responsibilities
  • Define the cloud security framework and architecture to meet business requirements and performance goals.
  • Document cloud security control implementation and transition controls to cloud security-managed operations.
  • Administer and monitor the SailPoint Identity Security Cloud environment, including tenant configuration, source connections, and identity profiles.
  • Monitor scheduled tasks, aggregation jobs, identity refresh operations, and provisioning queues.
  • Review platform health dashboards, system notifications, and audit logs, and escalate anomalies and performance issues.
  • Manage Virtual Appliance clusters for on-premises source connectivity, monitor Virtual Appliance health, and perform updates.
  • Support configuration changes involving identity attribute mappings, correlation rules, and transform logic.
  • Execute and oversee Joiner-Mover-Leaver identity lifecycle events and troubleshoot failed lifecycle state transitions.
  • Process access request fulfillment, including approval routing, provisioning verification, and exception handling.
  • Remediate failed provisioning operations by analyzing error logs, retrying operations, and coordinating with application owners.
  • Manage identity profile configurations, attribute synchronization rules, and lifecycle state definitions.
  • Support onboarding of new sources and applications and validate identity correlation and account aggregation accuracy.
  • Configure, launch, and monitor access certification campaigns according to the governance calendar and compliance schedule.
  • Support certifiers and reviewers during campaign execution, answer questions, provide guidance, and resolve issues.
  • Ensure timely campaign completion, follow up with non-responsive reviewers, and escalate incomplete certifications.
  • Generate compliance and audit evidence reports for SOX, HIPAA, GDPR, PCI-DSS, and ISO 27001 requirements.
  • Maintain audit trail integrity and produce certification reports, remediation evidence, and access review documentation.
  • Review Separation of Duties policy violations and coordinate remediation actions with business owners.
  • Monitor and maintain source connections for Active Directory, Azure Active Directory, SaaS applications, human resources systems, and databases.
  • Troubleshoot connector failures, aggregation errors, account correlation issues, and data synchronization problems.
  • Perform source configuration updates, including attribute mappings, transform modifications, and entitlement discovery rules.
  • Support REST API integrations with IT service management and human resources management systems.
  • Validate data quality, identity uniqueness, and entitlement accuracy across connected systems.
  • Create and modify identity transforms for attribute manipulation, data normalization, and business logic implementation.
  • Configure access profiles, roles, and entitlement definitions within the Identity Security Cloud governance framework.
  • Maintain email notification templates, approval workflows, and lifecycle event triggers.
  • Write basic cloud rules in JavaScript for custom attribute calculations and identity processing logic.
  • Develop standard reports using the Identity Security Cloud reporting engine and create custom queries for operational metrics and compliance data.
  • Serve as Level 2 support for identity and access management incidents, triage and resolve Identity Security Cloud issues within established service-level agreements.
  • Manage the operational backlog, including access provisioning requests, account unlocks, and entitlement modifications.
  • Document root cause analyses for major incidents, implement preventive measures, and update operational procedures.
  • Maintain operational runbooks, standard operating procedures, and knowledge base articles.
  • Coordinate with SailPoint Support on platform issues, product bugs, and feature requests requiring vendor intervention.

About the company

Accenture advises large businesses and public agencies on strategy, builds their technology systems and runs ongoing operations. Its teams connect business planning with implementation, covering areas such as cloud migration, cybersecurity and customer experience. Consultants work with clients to redesign processes, while engineers integrate software from technology partners and maintain the resulting systems for multinational organizations. Clients pay for project work or continuing services, including application support and business processes such as finance and customer service. Accenture was founded in 1989 and has its headquarters in Dublin, Ireland.

Company Size

10,001+

Company Stage

IPO

Headquarters

Dublin, Ireland

Founded

1989

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