Identity and Access Management (IAM) Engineer- AU Citizen with Security Clearance

Accenture; Sydney; On-site; AUD 120,000 - 180,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

18 weeks paid parental leave

Career development program

Flexible Work Arrangements

Local and international career growth

Job summary

Accenture is seeking an experienced IAM Engineer to lead strategy, design, and delivery of large-scale IAM transformation programs across ANZ. You will architect modern IAM solutions that integrate with cloud, hybrid, and on-prem environments while aligning with regulatory and business goals.

As a trusted advisor to clients and internal teams, you will ensure seamless identity foundations and participate in onboarding, governance, authentication, and privileged access initiatives across diverse

Qualifications

• Experience in identity and access management, application integration, technical support or a related discipline.
• Experience supporting application onboarding to enterprise technology platforms.
• An understanding of identity governance, authentication, authorisation, provisioning or privileged access.
• Experience troubleshooting technical configuration and integration issues.
• The ability to interpret and follow technical onboarding patterns, standards and checklists.
• Strong written documentation and record-management skills.
• Clear communication skills and the ability to work effectively with technical and non-technical stakeholders.
• A collaborative, organised and detail-oriented approach.

Responsibilities

• Support the technical onboarding of applications to enterprise identity platforms.
• Configure and validate identity connectors.
• Complete attribute, role and entitlement mapping.
• Verify identity, provisioning and access flows.
• Assist application teams with integration requirements, configuration questions and issue resolution.
• Support onboarding across identity governance, authentication and authorisation, and privileged access capabilities.
• Troubleshoot provisioning, authentication and authorisation issues during onboarding and after deployment.
• Execute established onboarding checklists, processes and technical patterns.
• Maintain onboarding documentation, configuration records and support runbooks.
• Support defect resolution and minor configuration changes under guidance.
• Participate in technical handovers and hypercare following onboarding releases.
• Escalate complex integration issues to identity engineers and relevant platform teams.

Skills

IAM

Identity & Access

Application onboarding

Identity governance

Troubleshooting

Documentation

Communication

Collaboration

Job description

About Accenture

Accenture is a global professional services company with leading capabilities in digital, cloud, and security. Combining unmatched experience and specialized skills across more than 40 industries, we offer Strategy and Consulting, Interactive, Technology, and Operations services.

Join Accenture Security in Australia and New Zealand to help organizations design and build secure digital ecosystems. As a leader in Identity & Access Management (IAM), you’ll play a pivotal role in helping clients establish secure, seamless, and scalable identity foundations aligned to Zero Trust principles and local sovereignty requirements.

Role Overview

We are seeking an experienced IAM Engineer to lead strategy, design, and delivery of large-scale IAM transformation programs across ANZ.

As a trusted advisor to clients and internal teams, you will architect modern IAM solutions that integrate with cloud, hybrid, and on-prem environments while ensuring alignment with regulatory and business goals.

Key responsibilities

• Support the technical onboarding of applications to enterprise identity platforms.


• Configure and validate identity connectors.


• Complete attribute, role and entitlement mapping.


• Verify identity, provisioning and access flows.


• Assist application teams with integration requirements, configuration questions and issue resolution.


• Support onboarding across identity governance, authentication and authorisation, and privileged access capabilities.


• Troubleshoot provisioning, authentication and authorisation issues during onboarding and after deployment.


• Execute established onboarding checklists, processes and technical patterns.


• Maintain onboarding documentation, configuration records and support runbooks.


• Support defect resolution and minor configuration changes under guidance.


• Participate in technical handovers and hypercare following onboarding releases.


• Escalate complex integration issues to identity engineers and relevant platform teams.

Key Qualifications

• Experience in identity and access management, application integration, technical support or a related discipline.


• Experience supporting application onboarding to enterprise technology platforms.


• An understanding of identity governance, authentication, authorisation, provisioning or privileged access.


• Experience troubleshooting technical configuration and integration issues.


• The ability to interpret and follow technical onboarding patterns, standards and checklists.


• Strong written documentation and record-management skills.


• Clear communication skills and the ability to work effectively with technical and non-technical stakeholders.


• A collaborative, organised and detail-oriented approach.

What’s In It for You

• Join a market-leading cybersecurity practice with a strong pipeline of identity transformation work


• Work on high-impact programs across financial services, energy, government, and more


• Access global centres of excellence, thought leadership and the latest tools and accelerators in IAM


• Mentorship opportunities and fast-tracked career growth in a high-performance culture


• Flexible working options and a commitment to work-life balance

Benefits of working at Accenture:

• 18 weeks paid parental leave


• Long & short-term career break opportunities


• Structured career development program


• Local and international career opportunities.


• Certified as a Family Inclusive Workplace™


• Flexible Work Arrangements - centered around Accenture’s Truly Human ethos and our commitment to supporting the health and wellbeing of our people.


• We are proud to be in the top 3 of last year’s Diversity & Inclusion Index!

Ready to help build the Future of Identity in ANZ?

Benefits of working at Accenture:

• 18 weeks paid parental leave


• Long & short-term career break opportunities


• Structured career development program


• Local and international career opportunities.


• Certified as a Family Inclusive Workplace™


• Flexible Work Arrangements - centered around Accenture’s Truly Human ethos and our commitment to supporting the health and wellbeing of our people.


• We are proud to be in the top 3 of last year’s Diversity & Inclusion Index!

About Accenture

Accenture is a leading global professional services company that helps the world’s leading businesses, governments and other organizations build their digital core, optimize their operations, accelerate revenue growth and enhance citizen services—creating tangible value at speed and scale. We are a talent- and innovation-led company with approximately 791,000 people serving clients in more than 120 countries. Technology is at the core of change today, and we are one of the world’s leaders in helping drive that change, with strong ecosystem relationships. We combine our strength in technology and leadership in cloud, data and AI with unmatched industry experience, functional expertise and global delivery capability. Our broad range of services, solutions and assets across Strategy & Consulting, Technology, Operations, Industry X and Song, together with our culture of shared success and commitment to creating 360° value, enable us to help our clients reinvent and build trusted, lasting relationships. We measure our success by the 360° value we create for our clients, each other, our shareholders, partners and communities.

Visit us at www.accenture.com

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About Accenture

Accenture is a leading global professional services company that helps the world’s leading businesses, governments and other organizations build their digital core, optimize their operations, accelerate revenue growth and enhance citizen services—creating tangible value at speed and scale. We are a talent- and innovation-led company with approximately 791,000 people serving clients in more than 120 countries. Technology is at the core of change today, and we are one of the world’s leaders in helping drive that change, with strong ecosystem relationships. We combine our strength in technology and leadership in cloud, data and AI with unmatched industry experience, functional expertise and global delivery capability. Our broad range of services, solutions and assets across Strategy & Consulting, Technology, Operations, Industry X and Song, together with our culture of shared success and commitment to creating 360° value, enable us to help our clients reinvent and build trusted, lasting relationships. We measure our success by the 360° value we create for our clients, each other, our shareholders, partners and communities.

Visit us at www.accenture.com

Equal Employment Opportunity Statementfor Australia:

At Accenture, our intention is to foster a culture and a workplace in which all of our people feel a sense of belonging and are respected and empowered to do their best work.

As part of our talent strategy, we hire and develop people who have different backgrounds, different perspectives and different lived experiences. These differences ensure that we have and attract the cognitive diversity to deliver a variety of perspectives, observations and insights which are essential to drive the innovation needed to reinvent, and we hold our leaders accountable for ensuring we have the most innovative and talented people in our industry.