Systems Eng. Sr. Specialist Advisor

Req ID: 396416

NTT DATA strives to hire exceptional, innovative and passionate individuals who want to grow with us. If you want to be part of an inclusive, adaptable, and forward-thinking organization, apply now.

We are currently seeking a Systems Eng. Sr. Specialist Advisor to join our team in Noida, Uttar Pradesh (IN-UP), India (IN).

Key Responsibilities

A. IAM Technical Strategy and Architecture

• Define and drive the technical roadmap for enterprise IAM platforms, integrations, and security capabilities.

• Provide technical leadership across IGA, PAM, Directory Services, PKI, UAM, and SSO/MFA.

• Review and validate solution architectures, technical designs, integration patterns, and implementation approaches.

• Establish technical standards, engineering best practices, security baselines, and reusable implementation patterns.

• Assess existing IAM architectures and identify opportunities to improve scalability, resilience, security, and operational efficiency.

• Guide platform modernization, technology upgrades, migrations, and integration initiatives.

• Ensure alignment with enterprise security architecture, zero-trust principles, least privilege, and identity governance requirements.

B. Advanced Technical Troubleshooting and Escalation Management

• Act as the highest-level technical escalation point for complex IAM incidents and platform issues.

• Lead technical investigation and resolution of critical issues across identity provisioning, authentication, authorization, privileged access, certificate services, and directory infrastructure.

• Drive detailed RCA for recurring and high-impact incidents and ensure permanent corrective and preventive actions.

• Troubleshoot complex integrations involving APIs, LDAP, Active Directory, SAML, OAuth 2.0, OpenID Connect, and other identity protocols.

• Coordinate cross-platform troubleshooting with application, network, cloud, infrastructure, and vendor engineering teams.

• Review technical incident reports, identify systemic failure patterns, and implement preventive engineering solutions.

• Provide technical direction during major incidents, service restoration, and post-incident reviews.

C. Identity Governance and Administration (IGA)

• Provide technical oversight for SailPoint Identity Security Cloud (ISC/IdentityNow) and SailPoint IdentityIQ environments.

• Lead technical design and troubleshooting of identity lifecycle workflows, provisioning, deprovisioning, access certifications, and application integrations.

• Guide application onboarding, connector configuration, identity correlation, aggregation, and provisioning rule development.

• Review access governance controls, role-based access control (RBAC), segregation of duties (SoD), and access review implementations.

• Troubleshoot workflow failures, connector issues, aggregation errors, provisioning failures, and identity data quality issues.

• Drive automation and integration improvements across IGA platforms and enterprise applications.

D. Privileged Access Management (PAM)

• Provide technical leadership for CyberArk and other enterprise PAM platforms.

• Guide privileged account onboarding, credential vaulting, password rotation, reconciliation, and privileged session management.

• Troubleshoot complex issues involving Digital Vault, PVWA, CPM, PSM, authentication, and platform integrations.

• Review privileged access architecture, security policies, onboarding standards, and credential management controls.

• Drive PAM automation, platform resilience, security hardening, and integration with enterprise infrastructure.

• Ensure technical solutions support least privilege, auditability, and secure administration.

E. Directory Services and Hybrid Identity

• Provide technical oversight for Microsoft Active Directory Domain Services and Microsoft Entra ID integrations.

• Lead troubleshooting of domain controllers, DNS, Group Policy, replication, FSMO roles, trusts, Kerberos, LDAP, and authentication dependencies.

• Review directory architecture, privileged group security, delegation, service accounts, and domain controller hardening.

• Guide complex directory migrations, domain controller lifecycle activities, hybrid identity integration, and disaster recovery.

• Develop automation and proactive monitoring to improve directory health, reliability, and security.

F. Public Key Infrastructure (PKI)

• Provide engineering oversight for enterprise PKI, Microsoft Active Directory Certificate Services (AD CS), and certificate management platforms.

• Guide certificate authority architecture, certificate issuance, renewal, revocation, trust chains, and certificate lifecycle management.

• Troubleshoot complex TLS/SSL, mutual TLS (mTLS), certificate enrollment, OCSP, CRL, and trust-chain issues.

• Review cryptographic standards, CA security, certificate templates, private-key protection, and key rollover procedures.

• Drive certificate lifecycle automation, expiry monitoring, CA resilience, and recovery readiness.

G. SSO/MFA and Authentication Services

• Provide technical leadership for enterprise SSO, MFA, federation, and authentication platforms.

• Review and troubleshoot SAML, OAuth 2.0, OpenID Connect, conditional access, and application federation integrations.

• Lead investigation of authentication failures, token issues, federation errors, and application integration problems.

• Establish secure authentication patterns, integration standards, and reusable implementation approaches.

• Coordinate application onboarding, identity provider integrations, platform upgrades, and authentication security improvements.

Transition and Transformation

• Lead technical discovery, current-state assessments, solution validation, and transition planning for IAM services.

• Define technical readiness criteria, dependencies, access requirements, knowledge-transfer plans, and operational acceptance checkpoints.

• Oversee shadowing, reverse shadowing, service stabilization, and technical handover.

• Identify platform gaps, technical debt, automation opportunities, and service improvement initiatives.

• Drive technical transformation projects, platform upgrades, integrations, and process standardization.

• Ensure proposed solutions are operationally supportable, secure, scalable, and aligned with agreed scope.

Technical Leadership Expectations

The candidate must demonstrate enterprise-level technical ownership and the ability to drive engineering decisions across multiple IAM towers.

• Act as the senior technical authority for IAM architecture, engineering standards, integrations, and complex technical escalations.

• Lead resolution of critical cross-platform issues and ensure technically robust permanent fixes.

• Make architecture and engineering decisions balancing security, scalability, resilience, performance, and operational supportability.

• Drive technical roadmaps, platform modernization, automation, and continuous engineering improvement.

• Review and challenge solution designs, identify technical risks, and define appropriate mitigation strategies.

• Establish consistent engineering practices and technical governance across IAM towers.

• Guide L3/L4 engineers and SMEs while building technical depth and reducing dependency on individual experts.

• Translate business and security requirements into practical, scalable IAM technical solutions.

• Lead technical discussions with customer architects, cybersecurity leaders, vendors, and infrastructure teams.

• Ensure technical readiness and engineering quality during transition, implementation, and service stabilization.

• Drive measurable improvements in incident recurrence, automation, platform reliability, and security posture.

About NTT DATA

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