IAM Consultant

Job Title: IAM AD and LDAP Consultant

Job Location: Irving, Texas

Relevant Experience Years Required

12+ years of experience with IAM and Active Directory with minimum 5+ years in architecture and designing systems with AD authentication and authorization in medium and large enterprise environments

Tools

AD and Entra ID (Must have)

AD, LDAP, Directories and Databases

SAML, OIDC, OAuth, Radius

SailPoint IGA

Networking, DNS, SMTP

Skills

Expert level knowledge and experience in architecture, design, configuration, best practices and troubleshooting Active Directory integrations with Enterprise systems and home-grown applications for authentication and authorization

In depth understanding of Active Directory features for authentication and authorization

In-depth understanding of various IAM security models for authentication and authorization used in applications and software and how entitlements are stored and used in applications for authorization

Hands-on experience with integrating home grown and COTs applications with Active Directory for authentication and authorization

Good understanding of IAM domain and various Enterprise Identity and Access Management tools like SailPoint, Entra ID

Good knowledge of Java, .Net, PowerShell, JavaScript, Python application development frameworks for Active Directory and Azure AD / Entra ID authentication and authorization

Good knowledge and experience working with Active Directory and Entra ID APIs, endpoints and SDKs for integrating applications, software, Databases, etc. for authentication and authorization

Familiarity with SAML, OAuth, OIDC, ADFS authentication protocols for applications and software

Ability to guide engineering and development team for integration with Active Directory for authentication and authorization

Should be methodical with attention to details

Skilled in coordinating and communicating with other teams to manage dependencies on other teams and stakeholders

Skilled in anticipating problems and roadblocks and effectively communicating and managing them

Excellent communication skills with team leadership ability

Excellent client facing and presentation skills.

Ability to work under fixed SLAs and timelines

Responsibilities

Lead and guide the analysis and preparatory work for applications that need to be refactored for AD authorization

Guide analysis of applications and entitlements that need to be externalized to AD for authorization

Serves at the subject matter expert for migrating and integrating homegrown application and cots software with AD and Entra ID for authorization

Guide application architecture and design teams with best practice in redesigning the application authorization model using Active Directory

Guide application development teams on programming libraries and frameworks to refactor applications for Active Directory based authorization

Conduct workshops and Q&A sessions to guide application teams for refactoring their applications to use Active Directory authorization