ITC : IT Consultant 2

Engagement Type: Contract

Short Description: IT Consultant 2
AM: Shalaka Please submit candidates ready to take in-person interviews.only.
Remote: Monday, Wednesday, Friday
Onsite: Tuesday, Thursday

Complete Description:

Preferred Education: Bachelor's Degree - Computer Science, IT, or Engineering-Focused Major
Job Description: The IOP CX identity platform operates on a complex, broad, and continuously expanding set of applications and tools, housed on both cloud infrastructure and SaaS products that the program leverages to build and provide mission critical services to the State and its constituents. Its largest and most complex offering, OHID, serves as an enterprise-grade identity service for all State of Ohio agencies and its constituents. The OHID platform continues to expand its offerings, while in parallel continuing to grow in its agency application and user count, which illuminates the need for identity expertise on the core IOP team.

Identity Governance Advisor

As OHID continues to grow and expand on its core services and offerings, it is imperative that the platform formalizes and provides clarity and rigidity around identity governance and standards. This is to achieve two goals:

1. To ensure that all use of the various OHID services and solutions are leveraged in a safe and consistent way, to prevent operational issues and technical debt.
2. To ensure that all development (changes and new functions) are built to IOP and industry standard, ensuring scalability and supportability.

Technical Identity and Access Management (IAM) Subject Matter Expert and Architect

As platform adoption rises, agencies continue to onboard applications and services to the platform at a rapid pace. IOP consistently has multiple identity projects operating in parallel, many of which are technically complex, mission critical, and traverse diverse organizations, both across State agencies and within DAS. This role will provide technical delivery leadership and oversight to these complex and critical projects, to ensure that they are delivered on time and with quality. In addition, this role will serve as an identity advisor and SME to ensure that changes or new additions to the identity platform are designed and developed according to industry and IOP standards.

In addition, this role is expected to assess the current identity technical infrastructure and application architecture to identify gaps, weak points, and inefficiencies in the identity platform. This role would then identify improvements and solutions in an effort to make the identity service offering more efficient, resilient, and redundant in an effort to increase the platform's overall stability and operability in steady state.

IOP is seeking a contractor to serve in this role, as it is extremely difficult for someone with the experience, drive, leadership, and breadth and depth of skill that is required for this multi-faceted role position within the constraints of State employment.

Job Duties:
•Develops, documents, implements, and enforces technical standards, repeatable processes, and reusable components that can be applied across the various IOP identity service offerings.
•Creates, maintains, and enforces IOP Identity Terms of Use, standards, policies, and governance documentation and processes.
•Serves as a Technical Delivery Lead/Identity SME on complex and visible projects and engagements that build and deliver solutions across the IOP CX technology stack.
•cts as a liaison between agency customers, stakeholders, vendor project teams, and internal IOP staff to ensure cohesive and effective delivery of the project across all involved organizations.
•Provides administrative and logistical support across teams to support project work.
•ssists in project planning, including developing/estimating timelines, composition of technical teams, and leveling of resources.
•Effectively sets expectations, manages, and monitors vendor/solution integrator teams to ensure that projects are being delivered on track and to an acceptable standard.
•ssists in the development and review/quality control of identity technical deliverables and design specification documents.
•Ensures that all technical solutions are developed in accordance with IOP and industry best practices and standards.
•Provides identity expertise on assessment of the current IOP identity infrastructure and application architecture to identify gaps and weak points. Identifies improvements and solutions in an effort to make the identity service offering more efficient, resilient, and redundant in an effort to increase the platform's overall stability and operability in steady state.
•Maintains a 'pulse' on identity industry best practices and standards and applies them to platform standards on a continuous basis.

Mandatory skills •Experience with IAM (identity and access management) concepts and technologies
•Experience implementing and supporting IAM tools and processes, ability to communicate effectively across the organization, analytical and problem-solving skills.
•Experience establishing, documenting, implementing, and enforcing technology standards and/or policies.
•Working knowledge of user provisioning, privileged access management, directory services, multi-factor authentication and single sign-on technologies.
•Information security experience in enterprise environments.
•Experience implementing, configuring, and supporting the IBM Identity suite of applications, including any combination of: ISIM, ISAM, ISVG
•Experience with installation, configuration, and administration of Microsoft Active Directory (AD).

Certifications or Desired skills if any Preferred Skills:
•Experience implementing and supporting IBM Security Verify (ISV) product
•Experience with AWS cloud infrastructure and its services/functions
•CISSP certification
•PI development and integration
•bility to develop code using at least one programming language such as Java, Python, etc.
•Experience implementing, configuring, and supporting the IBM Security Verify (ISV) suite of cloud applications.

Required / Desired Skills
Skill Required / Desired mount of Experience Preferred Education: Bachelor's Degree - Computer Science, IT, or Engineering-Focused Major Required Years of Relevant Experience: 10 years Required Experience with IAM (identity and access management) concepts and technologies Required Experience implementing and supporting IAM tools and processes, ability to communicate effectively across the organization, analytical, problem-solver Required Experience establishing, documenting, implementing, and enforcing technology standards and/or policies. Required Working knowledge of user provisioning, privileged access management, directory services, multi-factor authentication and single sign-on technologie Required Information security experience in enterprise environments. Required Experience implementing, configuring, and supporting the IBM Identity suite of applications, including any combination of: ISIM, ISAM, ISVG Required Experience with installation, configuration, and administration of Microsoft Active Directory (AD). Required Preferred Skills: •Experience implementing and supporting IBM Security Verify (ISV) product Highly desired Experience with AWS cloud infrastructure and its services/Functions Highly desired CISSP certification Highly desired PI development and integration Highly desired bility to develop code using at least one programming language such as Java, Python, etc. Highly desired Experience implementing, configuring, and supporting the IBM Security Verify (ISV) suite of cloud applications. Highly desired

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