Senior Identity and Access Management (IAM) Specialist

Location: PH

Profile: Cybersecurity

Required experience:

Working mode:

Responsibilities:

• IAM Governance and Business Requirements: Ability to define, document, and validate IAM-related business, governance, security, and operational requirements across applications, systems, and user populations.

• Architecture and Solution Oversight: Ability to review solution designs from a business, security, governance, and architecture perspective to ensure alignment with least privilege, segregation of duties, access control standards, and operational requirements.

• Lifecycle and Access Governance Processes: Working knowledge of JML, SoD, access certification, access request and approval workflows, role or entitlement models, privileged access controls, and identity lifecycle policies.

• Testing and Validation: Capability to prepare or review test scenarios, coordinate user acceptance testing, validate expected access behavior, confirm control requirements, track defects, and support readiness sign-off.

• Stakeholder and Application Onboarding Coordination: Ability to coordinate with application owners, technical teams, process owners, and vendors to obtain data, validate requirements, confirm integration readiness, and support onboarding activities.

• Operational Readiness and Transition: Ability to assess operational impacts, define support requirements, accept knowledge transfer, prepare handover documentation, and support long-term ownership after go-live.

• Compliance and Risk Awareness: Understanding of access control policies, audit expectations, regulatory requirements, security baselines, and risk management practices applicable to IAM and privileged access environments.

Qualifications:

• Has Bachelor's Degree in Information Security, Computer Science, Information Technology, or a related field.

• 5+ years of relevant experience in Identity and Access Management, cybersecurity, IT security governance, application security, infrastructure security, or enterprise access management projects.

• Hands-on involvement in IAM-related initiatives such as IGA, PAM, Active Directory, MFA, Single Sign-On, access request workflows, user lifecycle management, access certification, and application onboarding.

• Experience in defining, reviewing, or validating business, security, governance, and operational requirements for enterprise systems and applications.

• Knowledge of Joiner, Mover, Leaver (JML) processes, segregation of duties (SoD), access certification, approval workflows, entitlement management, and access governance policies.

• Experience coordinating with application owners, business process owners, infrastructure teams, security teams, and vendors to gather requirements, validate data, support onboarding, and resolve project implementation issues.

• Exposure to IAM platforms and technologies such as SailPoint, CyberArk, Microsoft Entra ID or Active Directory, MFA solutions, PAM tools, identity directories, workflow systems, and enterprise integration platforms.

• Familiarity with authentication, authorization, identity federation, and integration concepts including SSO, SAML, OAuth, OpenID Connect, APIs, directories, and role or entitlement models.

• Experience supporting testing activities, user acceptance testing, defect validation, knowledge transfer, operational readiness assessment, and post-go-live transition for security or IAM solutions.

Work set-up: Should be amendable to work 100% Onsite in Ortigas.

Shift: Dayshift