Senior IAM Security Technical Analyst

About Dawn InfoTek Inc.

Dawn InfoTek Inc. is a professional IT consulting team that partners with major financial institutions, investment firms and government sectors. We have been dedicated to delivering cutting-edge consulting services and recruiting all levels of IT positions for our clients.

We are currently seeking competent individuals to fulfill the role of Senior IAM Security Technical Analyst to join our dynamic team for our client, a leading Bank in Canada

Role Details

• Location: On site - 5 days /week
• Contract Duration: ASAP – Oct 31st
• Possibility of extension: for a total of 12 months or beyond & possibility of conversion to FTE (preferred)

About the Role

The Sr. IAM Security Technical Analyst is responsible for interpreting, analyzing and guiding IAM solution implementation across multiple workstreams . This position requires hands-on technical competence and the ability to engage directly with the engineering team, review architectures, provide security advisory reviews, validate approaches, and resolve technical dependencies to guide the team on technical IAM capabilities.

Typical Day in Role:

• Leads the end-to-end delivery of IAM programs and projects, ensuring milestones are met across multiple concurrent workstreams.
• Acts as the primary point of contact for executive stakeholders, preparing and presenting clear recommendations, reports, and updates on program status, risks, and KPIs.
• Stay up to date with regulatory requirements, standards, and industry best practices, advising leadership on trends, risks, and opportunities.
• Work cross-functionally and serve as a technical leader for IAM services.
• Manage vendor and partner relationships, ensuring services and solutions meet enterprise requirements.
• Accountable for the planning & successful delivery of projects identifying cross-functional business impact
• Defines project scope and deliverables, consistently adhering to predefined quality measurements to meet business needs and direction.
• Executes project requirements and roadmap direction set by Program Manager / Project Manager.
• Develops and maintains work plan, communications plan and resource plan for the assigned team and work objects.
• Proactively identifies and manages project issues and risks.
• Accountable to the project stakeholders and/or other project managers applying strong leadership skills to remove obstacles and resolve conflicts.

Candidate Requirements/Must Have Skills:

• 10+ years of experience in Cybersecurity with a primary focus on Authentication services such as IdP, SaaS, particularly Microsoft Entra ID and Microsoft IAM technologies, such as MFA, SAML 2.0, OAuth 2.0, OIDC .
• Familiarity with a large enterprise authentication system such as ForgeRock
• Experience with secure development and deployment with Java, cloud, container, DevOps and modern web development.

Nice-To-Have Skills:

• Strong understanding of cryptography, PKI, certificates, keys, and secret management.
• Familiarity with identity lifecycle management and access governance.

Soft skills:

• Strong analytical and decision-making abilities.
• Excellent communication and stakeholder engagement skills at an executive level.
• Ability to build cross functional and departmental relationships

Education:

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, Information Security, or related field.
• Equivalent combination of education and relevant experience may be considered.