Senior Identity & Access Management Specialist

Talent Corp; Brisbane; On-site; AUD 120,000 - 160,000; Full time

Job summary

Talent Corp is seeking a Senior Identity & Access Management Specialist for a long-term contract in Brisbane. The role focuses on implementing and governing modern IAM solutions, including Okta, Azure AD, and RBAC/ABAC.

The candidate will collaborate with project teams and security, driving design, migration, and operational support. The ideal candidate has 5+ years in IAM, hands-on experience with SSO, PEP, and governance, and can translate technical concepts for business stakeholders.

Qualifications

• IAM related technical qualifications such as Okta Certified Professional or Azure Identity & Access Administrator.
• Desirable: Bachelor of Information Technology (or similar degree).

Responsibilities

• Conduct technical discovery of IAM components (SSO, MFA, directory services, access policies).
• Document designs, papers and options analysis for the IAM program.
• Lead stakeholder meetings with technical and non‑technical audiences.
• Assist with implementing and migrating to the new IAM platform.
• Coordinate transition of services from current to new platform.
• Provide reporting for the IAM project and collaborate with PM, architects and operations.

Skills

Okta

Azure IAM

RBAC/ABAC

SAML/OAuth/OpenID

REST APIs

Scripting

Technical writing

Education

Bachelor of Information Technology

Tools

SCIM

PowerShell

Python

Bash

Azure AD

REST API testing

Job description

Senior Identity & Access Management Specialist

Talent is recruiting for an experienced Senior Identity and Access Management Specialist to join our client in the Education Sector based in St Lucia, Brisbane on a long-term contract through until November 2027.

// Senior IAM Specialist w/Okta Experience
// Contract until end of November 2027
// Higher Education Sector

Responsibilities:

• Conduct detailed technical discovery of various IAM components such as systems of record ingestion, access policies, MFA services, SSO, federated services, etc.
• Document and/or assist with documentation associated with detailed designs, key decision papers, options analysis, etc.
• Conduct key stakeholder meetings with both technical and non-technical audiences.
• Assist with the implementation of the new IAM platform and the associated services.
• Assist with the transition of services from the current platform to the new platform.
• Conduct and/or assist with reporting of technical elements for the project.
• Collaborate strongly with the project manager, program architect, business analyst, implementation partner and operation support team.
• Provide technical advice and guidance for the operational support teams.

Qualifications / Accreditations:

• IAM related technical qualifications (eg: Okta Certified Professional or Azure Identity & Access Administrator)
• Desirable: Bachelor of Information Technology (or similar degree)

Ideal Skills:

• Centralised IAM solutions such as Okta, Ping ID, Entra ID, etc.
• Downstream directory services such as Active Directory or similar
• Passwordless authentication services
• Business to Business (B2B) guest access
• Consumer to Business (CSB) guest access (Social account access)
• Identity Governance and Administration
• SCIM (System for Cross-Domain Identity Management) user and group provisioning
• Deep knowledge of standards and protocols such as SAML, OAuth, WS-FED, OpenID Connect, Kerberos.
• Design and implement Role-Based Access Control (RBAC), Attribute-Based Access Control (ABAC), and other access management models.
• Proficiency in scripting and automation tools (PowerShell, Python, Bash).
• Knowledge of APIs and RESTful services for integrating IAM solutions with other enterprise applications.
• Technical writing and documentation.
• Translating technical details into business-friendly language.
• Training and mentoring IT teams or end-users on the future IAM platform features and practices.

Experience:

• At least 5 years' experience working directly within an IAM team (or similar) as a technical specialist.
• Created design specification documentation from start to completion.
• Worked on large scale IAM projects.
• 2+ years of experience in designing and deploying solutions on Microsoft Azure platform and experience in workload migrations.
• Experience with public cloud platforms, including design, implementation and workload migration.
• Strong experience with Microsoft Azure services (IaaS and PaaS).
• Understanding of the Microsoft Cloud Adoption Framework, Enterprise Scale Landing Zones and Well Architected Framework and incorporating into Azure designs
• Desirable: A key technical resource on an IAM platform that has multiple systems of record (sources of truth).
• Desirable: Worked in an IAM team within a university.