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Accenture

Security Identity & Access Management Manager

Accenture, Boston, MA


We Are

Accenture Security helps organizations prepare, protect, detect, respond, and recover along with all points of the security lifecycle. Cybersecurity challenges are different for every business in every industry. Leveraging our global resources and advanced technologies, we create integrated, turnkey solutions tailored to our client's needs across their entire value chain. Whether we're defending against known cyberattacks, detecting and responding to the unknown, or running an entire security operations center, we will help companies build cyber resilience to grow with confidence. Our team of the security sector's brightest people uses the coolest tech to out-hack the hackers and help clients build resilience from within. We blend risk strategy, digital identity, cyber defense, application security, and managed service solutions to rethink the entire security lifecycle.

Do you have the deep functional and technical experience to help implement security solutions that align with our clients' business objectives? Do you have the expertise to design and deliver solutions for establishing system user's credentials, and processes for applying those credentials to access enterprise systems and applications?

If so, read on and apply. Accenture's more than 2,000 security professionals deliver holistic and proactive security solutions in 47 countries, and we'd love to discuss our open Identity and Access Management (I&AM) Security role with you.

You Are

A cyber security savant. You've got the skills and experience to keep data safe from black hat hackers or other threats, whether by coding a threat intrusion module or sharing your latest ideas with the team. Day-to-day, you're all about solving security problems for clients and using your people skills to make sure everyone on your team is working well and happily.

You are passionate about security, love what you do and have a genuine desire to outsmart the bad guys. You have the experience to analyze a clients' security posture, anticipate security requirements and help find right-sized solutions based on industry leading practices. You have a proven track record working successfully in a fast-paced, team-oriented environment. You're a creative, analytical problem solver with above average documentation skills who can speak to both technical and non-technical audiences. You are eager to put your skills to use by helping us help our clients inject security at every level of their organization.

The Work

Although no two days at Accenture are the same, your duties as I&AM Security Consulting Manager likely will include:
  • Working directly with clients and Accenture teams in a multi-disciplined team structure, designing and implementing I&AM solutions across a variety of vendor products including Oracle, ForgeRock, Okta, SailPoint and others.
  • Developing deep working relationships with Senior Executives and Senior Managers across the client account team and client.
  • Understanding the business direction of companies and creating optimized I&AM architectures to meet their business needs.
  • Building knowledge capital through research and development, leveraging industry insights to deliver best of breed expertise to clients. Helping grow Accenture Security across North America through thought leadership and entrepreneurialism.


Travel may be required for this role. The amount of travel will vary from 0 to 100% depending on business need and client requirements

Here's What You Need

  • Bachelor's degree or equivalent (minimum 12 years) work experience. (If Associate's Degree, must have minimum 6 years of work experience)
  • Minimum of 7 years of experience in I&AM, including designing and architecting solutions based on client requirements.
  • Minimum of 7 years of experience with configuration and implementation of packaged or custom IAM solutions including:

-Design and develop automated provisioning and reconciliation of IT resources
-Request-based application and resource provisioning
-RBAC authentication to entitled applications and resources
-Role based resolution of approvers for request approval flows
-Single Sign-on. Minimum of 7 years of experience in consulting and im plementation of IAM solutions across various service areas/groups.
  • Minimum 5 years of experience in at least two or more of the following IAM Vendor technologies or skills: SailPoint, ForgeRock, Okta, CyberArk, Ping, etc.
  • Minimum of 7 years of experience in at least two or more of the following IAM Functional Skills:
    Access Management
    Identity Governance
    Directory Services
    Identity Provisioning
    Identity Management
    Identity Management as a Service


Bonus points if you have:
  • Exposure to I&AM practitioners and experts
  • Prior work experience serving C-Level clients as a security consultant
  • Industry-adopted security certifications (e.g. CISSP), as well as I&AM vendor or industry certification such as:
    • Certified Identity and Access Manager (CIAM)
    • SailPoint Certified Identity Professional Program Certifications
    • ForgeRock Certified Access Management Specialist
    • ForgeRock Certified Identity Management Specialist
  • Prior experience in the deployment and implementation of custom applications
  • Experience with any of the following security areas:
    • Information risk, privacy, and strategy (i.e. security and privacy policies, or risk assessments, or security and privacy compliance);
    • Application security (i.e. application security testing or security integrations with Systems Development Lifecycle (SDL)
    • Infrastructure security; (i.e.- securing networks and servers or security monitoring)
    • Data security or encryption
  • Prior experience with any of the following:
    • Provisioning Onboarding
    • RBAC Authorization models
    • SSO WAC technologies Enterprise SSO
    • Federation
    • Privilege User Management
    • Directory Services Meta-Directory Virtual Directory
    • Authentication Methods
    • Entitlement Management
    • OAUTH, OpenID Connect
    • XACML
    • JSON, REST, SOAP
    • HTML5, IQuery, Node.js


Compensation at Accenture varies depending on a wide array of factors, which may include but are not limited to the specific office location, role, skill set, and level of experience. As required by local law, Accenture provides a reasonable range of compensation for roles that may be hired in California, Colorado, District of Columbia, Maryland, New York or Washington as set forth below.
We accept applications on an on-going basis and there is no fixed deadline to apply.

Information on benefits is here.

Role Location Annual Salary Range

California $93,400 to $258,500

Colorado $93,400 to $223,300

District of Columbia $99,500 to $237,800

New York $86,500 to $258,500

Maryland $86,500 to $206,800

Washington $99,500 to $237,800

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