IAM AD and LDAP Consultant Location: NJ/TX/NC- Hybrid

Relevant Experience Years: 12+ years of experience with IAM and Active Directory with minimum 5+ years in architecture and designing systems with AD authentication and authorization in medium and large enterprise environments

Tools
• AD and Entra ID (Must have)
• AD, LDAP, Directories and Databases
• SAML, OIDC, OAuth, Radius
• SailPoint IGA
• Networking, DNS, SMTP

Skills
• Expert level knowledge and experience in architecture, design, configuration, best practices and troubleshooting Active Directory integrations with Enterprise systems and home grown applications for authentication and authorization
• In depth understanding of Active Directory features for authentication and authorization
• In-depth understanding of various IAM security models for authentication and authorization used in applications and software and how entitlements are stored and used in applications for authorization
• Hands-on experience with integrating home grown and COTs applications with Active Directory for authentication and authorization • Good understanding of IAM domain and various Enterprise Identity and Access Management tools like SailPoint, Entra ID • Good knowledge of Java, .Net, Powershell, Javascript, Python application development frameworks for Active Directory and Azure AD / Entra ID authentication and authorization
• Good knowledge and experience working with Active Directory and Entra ID APIs, endpoints and SDKs for integrating applications, software, Databases, etc. for authentication and authorization
• Familiarity with SAML, OAuth, OIDC, ADFS authentication protocols for applications and software
• Ability to guide engineering and development team for integration with Active Directory for authentication and authorization
• Should be methodical with attention to details
• Skilled in coordinating and communicating with other teams to manage dependencies on other teams and stakeholders
• Skilled in anticipating problems and roadblocks and effectivley communicating and managing them
• Excellent communication skills with team leadership ability
• Excellent client facing and presentation skills.
• Ability to work under fixed SLAs and timelines

Responsibilities
• Lead and guide the analysis and preparatory work for applications that need to be refactored for AD authorization
• Guide analysis of applications and entitlements that need to be externalized to AD for authorization
• Serves at the subject matter expert for migrating and integrating homegrown application and cots software with AD and Entra ID for authorization
• Guide application architecture and design teams with best practice in redesigning the application authorization model using Active Directory
• Guide application development teams on programming libraries and frameworks to refactor applications for Active Directory based authorization
• Conduct workshops and Q&A sessions to