IT Architect - digital identity

We help our clients succeed in their digital transformation initiatives, driven by identity. We do this through an end-to-end offering, helping clients from design to operating solutions. For example, we help organisations assess, improve, and plan their digital identity journey. Next, we help design, build, and implement digital identity processes and solutions. Finally, we provide digital identity as a Managed Service, allowing organisations to take advantage of a best-practice implementation examples.

We work in different IAM domains, including enterprise identity (EIAM) and customer & citizen identity (CIAM). In EIAM, our focus is to help clients provide their workforce with secure, easy, and controlled access to their applications, improving efficiency, security, and overall control over who has access to what resources. In CIAM, our focus is to help clients enable seamless, secure, and convenient online access for their customers using verified digital identity, so improving trust in digital interactions, user satisfaction, and personal data protection. We do so for all types of large organisations, both public and private.

It requires a diverse skillset to set us apart from the competition, bringing together business, regulatory, and IT domains. This unique combination of strong business knowledge with solid technical ability allows our team to "practice what we preach", and our clients appreciate us for it. Not only in the local Belgian market, through our Deloitte network our Belgian team is actively helping clients throughout EMEA. As part of our Belgian Digital Trust & Privacy team, you will be part of a team of seasoned cyber professionals where inclusive leadership, continuous learning and coaching culture is considered an essential part of who we are. As an experienced Identity & Access Management Architect, you help serve our clients, build our business, and guide our team members. Your main role is to translate client requirements to working solutions, by designing and implementing digital identity processes and solutions. You are the go-to person to substantiate business requirements with technical knowledge, by providing guidance on feasibility, effort, and dependencies. You have a solid understanding of the capabilities of leading identity platforms, and are able to form the bridge between client technical teams and our engineers. For example, you work on implementation scenarios, technical designs, and lead our teams in the implementation of use-cases and functionalities. You build trust and engage actively with key client stakeholders, and get energy from solving complex implementation puzzles. You have hands-on technical experience and are able to step in when needed, but excel in guiding a team of engineers.

We are looking for a passionate Identity & Access Management (IAM) Engineer or Architect to join our Identity team, helping clients solve their IAM-related challenges based on solid technical understanding. Let's talk about you

• You are passionate and enthusiastic about Digital Identity, its societal and corporate potential, and the essential role of identity in the wider cyber security landscape.
• You like solving problems, have an analytical mindset, can work autonomously, and can handle multiple projects simultaneously.
• You are focused on achieving and exceeding client expectations, combined with excellent communication skills, both in presenting and writing.
• You are entrepreneurial in nature, pro-active, and communicative.
• You are able to help clients in their identity transformation by translating complex requirements into practical design and implementation choices.
• You are able to help develop our identity offering and client portfolio by identifying new opportunities, building a network, and forming durable, trust-based client relationships.
• You are able to build a team around you and develop our talent, both through leading a project team and coaching other team members.
• Desirable skills and demonstrable experience
• Solid experience (5+ years) in IAM and its different domains, including enterprise, customer and/or citizen identity, and related capabilities and processes in identity governance, authorisation, and authentication.
• Strong technical skills related to digital identity and cyber security, including creating technical designs and implementation experience on leading platforms.
• Knowledge of the IAM and/or CIAM vendor landscape and their solution offerings, including IGA, AM, CIAM solutions (think ForgeRock/Ping, SailPoint, Okta, Saviynt, Microsoft Entra).
• Hands-on experience for more than 2 years in configuration and implementation of IAM tools.
• Experience in managing small teams on various implementation of IAM tools at clients.
• Solid knowledge of IAM standards, best-practices, and protocols, including SAML, OpenID Connect, SCIM, etc.
• Knowledge of modern IAM standards in relation to federation and decentralised identity authentication and wallets, such as OpenId4VP, OpenID4VCI, WebAuthN, FIDO2, W3C and SD-JWT Verifiable Credentials.
• Understanding of Internet technologies, specifically a solid knowledge of protocols such as HTTP, SSL/TLS, IPv4/v6, XML
• Knowledge of Service Oriented Architecture (JSON, SOAP, REST)
• Knowledge of directory services, meta-directories, virtual directories (Entra/Active Directory, LDAP, IPA)
• Development skills are a plus, e.g. with JAVA, Beanshell, Javascript, .NET
• Experience leading and working with nearshore/offshore teams to realise working solutions.
• IT-project management skills (and methodologies), leading a team through different phases of the project, including design, development and deployment
• You are open to work in an international environment and to work abroad if needed;
• You have fluent language skills (Preferably Dutch and English).
• Relevant certifications (CISSP, CISA, CISM, specific IAM training and/or vendor certifications) are a plus.

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