IAM Architect: Identity, Access & Privilege Governance

CCDS; Riyadh; On-site; SAR 300,000 - 420,000; Full time

Job summary

CCDS in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, is seeking an experienced IAM professional to govern identity, access, and privileged-access services across the enterprise environment on a 13-month project-based engagement.

You will manage joiner/mover/leaver processes, review access, operate SSO/MFA, and support audits and compliance with Zero Trust principles. A Bachelor’s degree and 6+ years in IAM governance/engineering/operations are required.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Information Security, or a related field.
• At least 6 years of experience in IAM governance, engineering, or operations.
• Hands-on experience with enterprise IAM, IGA, and PAM platforms.
• Strong understanding of identity lifecycle, access-control models, SSO, MFA, RBAC, least privilege, and segregation of duties.
• Experience integrating IAM solutions with enterprise applications and applying Zero Trust and modern authentication principles.
• Knowledge of Saudi regulatory requirements and international identity-security practices.

Responsibilities

• Manage joiner, mover, and leaver identity lifecycle processes and automated account provisioning across connected systems.
• Review access requests, approvals, role assignments, SD conflicts, and least-privilege controls.
• Operate SSO and MFA services and investigate failed, suspicious, or anomalous authentication activity.
• Monitor identity synchronization, resolve provisioning failures, and maintain identity-data consistency.
• Run access-certification campaigns, coordinate with business owners, and escalated overdue reviews.
• Identify and remediate inactive, orphaned, excessive, or high-risk accounts and entitlements.
• Govern privileged access requests, session monitoring, recordings, shared accounts, and just-in-time access.
• Support audits, compliance evidence, IAM/PAM incident investigation, remediation tracking, and periodic operational reporting.

Skills

Stakeholder coordination

Troubleshooting

Documentation

Governance

Education

Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science or Information Security

Tools

Enterprise IAM

IGA

PAM platforms

Job description

CCDS in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, is seeking an experienced IAM professional to govern identity, access, and privileged-access services across the enterprise environment on a 13-month project-based engagement.

You will manage joiner/mover/leaver processes, review access, operate SSO/MFA, and support audits and compliance with Zero Trust principles. A Bachelor’s degree and 6+ years in IAM governance/engineering/operations are required.