Identity Access Management Consultant

Job Summary:

The Senior Identity Access Management (IAM) Consultant is responsible for defining and implementing comprehensive IAM architectures and solutions, focusing on Oracle Identity Management and Oracle Access Governance. This role involves designing and deploying identity governance frameworks, approval workflows, provisioning processes, and certification campaigns to support large-scale enterprise environments, including government agencies. The consultant will lead client engagements, review technical designs, and ensure compliance with audit and governance standards.

Responsibilities:

• Define target-state architecture for identity, account, entitlement data, request management, approvals, certifications, provisioning, and reporting.
• Establish application onboarding patterns for enterprise applications.
• Design identity collection, access collection, and access bundle strategies.
• Develop approval architectures involving managers, business owners, application owners, compliance, and delegated approvers.
• Define certification campaign architectures including review scope, certifier ownership, remediation, and evidence requirements.
• Establish boundaries between platform capabilities, custom UI, middleware, orchestration layers, and downstream systems.
• Ensure custom UI and workflow components comply with governance, approval, audit, and certification controls.
• Build provisioning and deprovisioning architectures with integration points and status tracking.
• Review and approve functional, technical, integration designs, and testing strategies.
• Lead client-facing architecture walkthroughs and design sign-off discussions.

Required Skills & Certifications:

• 10+ years of experience in Identity Governance and Administration.
• Strong expertise in Oracle Identity Management and Oracle Access Governance (OAG).
• 4+ years deploying Oracle Access Governance at enterprise scale (60,000+ user identities).
• Deep understanding of OAG identities, accounts, entitlements, roles, permissions, access bundles, request catalogs, approvals, and certifications.
• Experience building Identity Orchestration Layers interfacing with OAG for rule making, SoD management, and user hierarchy decisions.
• End-to-end design and deployment of Oracle Access Governance reporting solutions leveraging streaming services.
• Designing access request, approval, fulfillment, review, and lifecycle governance processes.
• Strong Java and API skills supporting complex user lifecycle management with OAG.
• Experience building and securing REACT-based UIs integrated with OAG ensuring security, workflows, and auditability.
• Expertise developing custom connectors and adapters using OAG Generic REST connectors for non-standard systems.
• Implementing enterprise Segregation of Duties (SoD) frameworks with custom risk policies and integration with Oracle Risk Management Cloud.
• Hands-on implementation of OAG APIs for automation, policy enforcement, and deep enterprise integration.
• Defining application onboarding strategies for complex enterprise systems.
• Strong understanding of audit, compliance, access review, and traceability requirements.
• Ability to create architecture, data flow, and sequence diagrams along with solution decision records.

Preferred Skills & Certifications:

• Experience with Oracle Identity Governance, OIM, or Oracle IAM architecture.
• Oracle EBS or ERP access model experience.
• Familiarity with REST API, middleware, Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI), or integration architectures.
• Experience designing governance solutions involving custom portals or request intake layers.
• Knowledge of maintaining audit traceability across request, approval, provisioning, and review processes.

Special Considerations:

• Must have architecture experience with Oracle Access Governance core, applications, and architecture.
• Experience deploying Oracle Access Governance in government agencies and their ministries/divisions is advantageous.
• Prior experience in operations or public sector environments is a plus.
• Compliance with strict governance, audit, and security controls is mandatory.

Scheduling:

• 5 days onsite work requirement.
• Standard business hours unless otherwise specified.