Cyber – CIAM Technical Specialist (Manager or Senior Consultant), Cyber Risk

Deloitte LLP; City Of London; Hybrid; GBP 70,000 - 90,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading consulting firm in London is seeking an IAM Technical Specialist/Lead to manage large IAM engagements and support clients in developing identity projects. This role requires a strong background in cyber identity solutions and excellent client management skills. The ideal candidate will have experience with CIAM solutions and cloud platforms, alongside strong communication skills. Join us for an opportunity to make a significant impact while enjoying a hybrid work model.

Benefits

Flexible hybrid working policy

Continuous professional development

Qualifications

• Experience working in a digital transformation environment.
• Hands-on experience with CIAM solutions is essential.
• Ability to manage client expectations and deliverables.

Responsibilities

• Lead large and complex IAM engagements.
• Support clients in developing identity projects.
• Engage with clients to capture solution requirements.

Skills

Broad enterprise identity experience

Client stakeholder management

Detail oriented and strong problem-solving skills

Excellent oral and written communication skills

Education

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or Engineering

Tools

ForgeRock

Ping

Microsoft Azure B2C

Okta

Auth0

Amazon Web Services

Microsoft Azure

Google Cloud Platform

Job description

Cyber Risk & Security. Everybody’s talking about it. Every major corporation is concerned by it. The Government is investing £1.9 billion in tackling it. We’re shaping strategies and transforming technology to minimise it and we need you to join us. You’ll build strong relationships within a Cyber practice with over 200 extremely talented individuals. Our team brings together people who graduated in everything from Philosophy to Law, Maths and Computer Science. Join them and you will operate at the cutting edge, enjoying the kind of professional development that will set your potential free.

At Deloitte, the Cyber Identity team help our clients assess, design, and implement Identity solutions to support digital change and reduce the risk of high impact cyber-attacks. Quite simply, the Identity team help ensure our client’s business can expand and adapt to the changing digital and regulatory needs in a secure and complaint manner.

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You will have a passion and curiosity, for cyber and technology, comfortable with operating in a fastpaced environment where you will define and lead the implementation of various identity solutions that enable our clients explore new business opportunities, while reducing the risk of these changes.

As an IAM technical specialist/lead, you will be responsible for:

Engagement Delivery

• Leading large and complex IAM engagements, you will be well versed in the Identity lifecycle and concepts as well as alignment of requirements to security frameworks like NIST.
• Supporting clients to define and develop their identity projects and programmes, from current state review through to CIAM strategies, roadmap development, and execution of activities to mobilise projects and programmes.
• Project and programme delivery, covering solution requirements definition, solution architecture, high and low-level design development, solution build / configuration / deployment / integration, supported by testing and hand-over to business as usual operational teams.
• Form part of digital transformation and enterprise recovery engagements delivering IAM solutions and remediation activity.
• Deliver broader cyber engagements where needed (across related disciplines like architecture, data security and application security) Market Development:
• Distilling complex technical matters into simple narratives to drive and lead conversations with senior client stakeholders.
• Ongoing client engagement / relationship management - building and maintaining client relationships in support of account targeting.
• Opportunity pursuit - engaging with clients to capture problem statements / solution requirements, developing client propositions / solutions, defining detailed delivery timelines, resource requirements and cost estimates, and supporting client pitch activity.
• Working with FS sector leadership to shape and refine both existing and new IAM market propositions / offerings.

Connect to your skills and professional experience

Whilst a bachelor's degree (or equivalent) in Computer Science or Engineering is desirable, we are more interested in your real-world professional experience and your ability to turn this into impactful client outcomes.

Technical Skills

The skills we want you to ultimately have will cover:

• Broad enterprise identity experience across Enterprise and Customer Authentication, with demonstrable ability to build identity strategies which integrate into client enterprise architectures and beyond.
• Experience working in a digital transformation environment supporting the definition of Identity architecture leveraging cloud native and/or other IAM solutions.
• Advanced, practical experience of a variety of CIAM solutions such as ForgeRock, Ping, Microsoft Azure B2C, Okta, and Auth0 or equivalent.
• Advanced, practical experience of cloud hosting services including, Amazon Web Services, Microsoft Azure, Google Cloud Platform.
• Hands-on experience of Microsoft Active Directory/Azure AD Domain Services, Federation Services, Certificate Services, DNS and DHCP or equivalent.
• Hands-on experience of implementation of OAuth, OIDC and JWTs.
• Understanding of decentralised identity, verifiable credentials, microservices and Trust over IP architecture stack.
• Detail oriented and strong problem-solving skills.
• Excellent oral and written communication skills including concisely communicating status and creating customer reports and presentations.

Consulting Skills

• Project management – Experience with waterfall and agile type methodologies, often working within client specified frameworks.
• Delivery team management: Managing teams across a mix of locations, cultures, and experience levels.
• Client stakeholder management – Strong communication and relationship skills to manage a variety of client stakeholders from CISO to Developer.

In addition to the above the following are desirable:

• Consulting or equivalent background.
• Understanding of malware and the modern threat landscape.
• Relevant certifications (e.g. CISSP, certifications from Microsoft, ISC2, ISACA, SANS, GIAC, ECCouncil etc. or equivalent).
• Exposure to/Understanding of DevOps tools and repositories (e.g. Git, Azure Dev Ops, Kubernetes, Docker, Jenkins, Ansible etc.).
• Role based access control (RBAC) design.
• Practical experience with Linux operating systems.
• Experience with Modern Authentication concepts e.g. Self-Service Identity, Bring your own Identity, SCIM, SAML, WS-Federation, OAuth, Open ID Connect or equivalent.
• Ability to hold Security Clearance.

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Our hybrid working policy

You’ll be based in London with hybrid working.

At Deloitte we understand the importance of balancing your career alongside your home life. That’s why we’ll support you to work flexibly through our hybrid working policy. Depending on the requirements of your role, you’ll have the opportunity to work in your local office, virtual collaboration spaces, client sites and remotely. You’ll get the chance to meet face to face when needed, while you collaborate and learn from colleagues, share your experiences, and build the relationships that will fuel your career and prioritise your wellbeing. Please check with your recruiter for the specific working requirements that may apply for your role.

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For this role we can offer coaching and support designed for returners to refresh your knowledge and skills, and help your transition back into the workplace after a career break of two years or more. If this is relevant for you, just let your recruiter know when you make your application.

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Your expertise is our capability, so we’ll make sure it never stops growing. Whether it’s from the complex work you do, or the people you collaborate with, you’ll learn every day. Through world-class development, you’ll gain invaluable technical and personal skills. Whatever your level, you’ll learn how to lead.

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