Description
Venesky-Brown's client, a public sector organisation in Edinburgh, is currently looking to recruit an Identity and Access Architect/Engineer for an initial 8 month contract with potential to extend on a rate of £700-£800/day inside IR35. This role will be a hybrid of working at home and in the office.Responsibilities:
- Understanding of technology and dependencies - Be able to identify, design and deploy resolutions using the cloud IdP technologies and raise issues with planned activities. Successful candidate will have a proven track record of working with Cloud IdP platforms and other Cloud Security services to architect robust and secure solutions.
- Support workshops - Be able to support in delivery of workshops, as well as run workshops with other product owners to design and deliver end to end solutions.
- Delivery - Design and deliver SAML/OIDC SSO integrations using corporate Identity platform, Okta
- Make recommendations to approach - Be able to use analysis to identify risk and/or suggest improvements
- Understand both functional and non-functional requirements - Be able to make suggestions for improvements, and identify risks where appropriate that consider both the systems and business needs
- Business checks - Be able to work closely with stakeholders to ensure that changes to applications and related Business process work as expected
- Ad hoc User Acceptance testing - Be able to work with technical teams to check changes work as expected prior to sharing with Stakeholders
- Support development of training materials - Be able to challenge existing materials to ensure they produce the best experience for the relevant stakeholders
- Support documentation of recommendations, policies and procedures - Be able to articulate complex messages in a succinct way that is suitable for the relevant audience.
Essential Skills:
- Confident communicator - Be able to appropriately adjust communication style to different levels of technical experience
- Build relationships with key technical and non-technical stakeholders within the Project - Be able to work well with both existing stakeholders and identify additional stakeholders where appropriate.
- Confident Cloud IdP Architect - Be able to use MS Excel to monitor and track work as well as perform analysis when required including vlookups, pivot tables etc.
Desirable Skills:
- Okta Workforce Identity Cloud
- SAML/OIDC
- Active Directory
- Working knowledge of other cloud-based security platforms which complement the IdP landscape, ie, Entra, zScaler, Crowdstrike, etc., would be highly desirable.
If you would like to hear more about this opportunity please get in touch.