Identity & Access Management (IAM) project Consultant (6-month contract) - On site or Remote

Recursion; Spokane Valley (WA); Remote; USD 100,000 - 130,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading company in the TechBio space seeks an IAM Specialist to enhance identity management systems and workflows. You will implement IAM projects, improve onboarding processes, and collaborate with cross-functional teams to ensure security standards are met. This role offers the flexibility of remote work and requires a strong background in IAM and security principles.

Qualifications

• Minimum 7 years in Identity & Access Management.
• Expert level experience with IAM products and automating identity workflows.

Responsibilities

• Merge and federate multiple Okta instances.
• Automate on-demand provisioning workflows for access requests.

Skills

Leadership

Communication

Security Principles

Education

Bachelor's Degree

Tools

Okta

AWS

Azure AD

Job description

Your work will change lives. Including your own.

The Impact You’ll Make

You will execute IAM projects that support Recursion’s IAM strategy. Your focus will be on implementing IAM workflows to meet evolving business needs. These projects include improving Identity & Access Management systems and workflows across cloud / on-premise infrastructure and corporate applications to accelerate key business outcomes. You will also be responsible for managing federation across IAM solutions and collaborating closely with cross-functional teams to improve identity lifecycle workflows.

In this role, you will :

• Merge and federate Recursion’s multiple Okta instances
• Improve onboarding, offboarding and other identity lifecycle workflows.
• Automate on-demand provisioning workflows for access requests (service now)
• Collaborate with cross-functional teams to design and improve RBAC / ABAC
• Drives assigned activities in project scope status updates and in-scope documentation development.
• Mentors and provides knowledge transfer to Recursion team

Location :

This position can be based at our headquarters in Salt Lake City, UT. Remote work is also an option.

The Team You’ll Join

You will work with the Information Security team at Recursion, focused on enabling Recursion to decode biology by providing world class secure technology services that are designed and fit for purpose. You'll collaborate with your teammates and across departments to ensure that IAM systems support the organization's broader business objectives while maintaining the highest standards of security.

The Experience You’ll Need

• A minimum of 7 years of experience in Identity & Access Management and other information security related domains.
• Deep understanding of security principles and proven track record of successfully leading large-scale IAM projects within cloud-first and hybrid environments.
• Expert level experience working with IAM products Okta, AWS, Azure AD
• Expert level experience automating identity workflows
• Expert level experience in Adaptive Authentication, OAuth, OpenID, SAML etc.
• Expertise in one or more programming languages (e.g., Java, C++, Python) as they relate to IAM products.
• Excellent communication and leadership skills, capable of driving security initiatives and influencing change across multiple teams and disciplines.
• Act as a Business Systems Analyst and articulate and elicit requirements and use-cases in a manner that is technology agnostic

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The Values We Hope You Share :

• We act boldly with integrity. We are unconstrained in our thinking, take calculated risks, and push boundaries, but never at the expense of ethics, science, or trust.
• We care deeply and engage directly. Caring means holding a deep sense of responsibility and respect - showing up, speaking honestly, and taking action.
• We learn actively and adapt rapidly. Progress comes from doing. We experiment, test, and refine, embracing iteration over perfection.
• We move with urgency because patients are waiting. Speed isn’t about rushing but about moving the needle every day.
• We take ownership and accountability. Through ownership and accountability, we enable trust and autonomy—leaders take accountability for decisive action, and teams own outcomes together.
• We are One Recursion. True cross-functional collaboration is about trust, clarity, humility, and impact. Through sharing, we can be greater than the sum of our individual capabilities.

Our values underpin the employee experience at Recursion. They are the character and personality of the company demonstrated through how we communicate, support one another, spend our time, make decisions, and celebrate collectively.

More About Recursion

Recursion (NASDAQ : RXRX) is a clinical stage TechBio company leading the space by decoding biology to radically improve lives. Enabling its mission is the Recursion OS, a platform built across diverse technologies that continuously generate one of the world’s largest proprietary biological and chemical datasets. Recursion leverages sophisticated machine-learning algorithms to distill from its dataset a collection of trillions of searchable relationships across biology and chemistry unconstrained by human bias. By commanding massive experimental scale — up to millions of wet lab experiments weekly — and massive computational scale — owning and operating one of the most powerful supercomputers in the world, Recursion is uniting technology, biology and chemistry to advance the future of medicine.

Recursion is headquartered in Salt Lake City, where it is a founding member of BioHive, the Utah life sciences industry collective. Recursion also has offices in Toronto, Montréal, New York, London, Oxford area, and the San Francisco Bay area. Learn more at www.Recursion.com , or connect on X (formerly Twitter) and LinkedIn .

Recursion is an Equal Opportunity Employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, age, disability, veteran status, or any other characteristic protected under applicable federal, state, local, or provincial human rights legislation.

Accommodations are available on request for candidates taking part in all aspects of the selection process.

Recruitment & Staffing Agencies : Recursion Pharmaceuticals and its affiliate companies do not accept resumes from any source other than candidates. The submission of resumes by recruitment or staffing agencies to Recursion or its employees is strictly prohibited unless contacted directly by Recursion’s internal Talent Acquisition team. Any resume submitted by an agency in the absence of a signed agreement will automatically become the property of Recursion, and Recursion will not owe any referral or other fees. Our team will communicate directly with candidates who are not represented by an agent or intermediary unless otherwise agreed to prior to interviewing for the job.

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