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Senior Identity, Authentication, Authorization & Governance Analyst

Posted 1 day 18 hours ago by Jobtailor

Permanent

Full Time

Other

Dublin, Dublin, Ireland

Job Description

Responsibilities

Shape IAM business requirements for enterprise authentication and authorization, helping to guide future direction across the organisation.
Ensure AI systems, agents, and services comply with IAM standards, internal policies, and applicable regulatory and audit requirements.
Oversee identity and access controls across private cloud, SaaS, and hybrid environments.
Guide the adoption of modern access models such as zero trust, conditional access, and least privilege.
Establish and govern API authentication and authorization standards across the enterprise.
Ensure APIs are protected using consistent, secure identity patterns (token-based access, service authentication, least privilege).
Partner closely with application, platform, and integration teams to embed IAM controls into API design and development lifecycles.
Oversee risk management, metrics, and reporting related to API access and service identities.
Partner with governance teams to ensure IAM requirements are defined, measured, reported, and enforced.
Ensure compliance with internal policies and external regulatory and audit requirements.
Provide executive-level reporting on identity risks, control gaps, and remediation progress.
Support audit engagements, issue remediation, and sustainable control design.
Build partnerships across GIS, Core Technology, Application Development, Risk, Compliance, Audit, and Third-Party Management.
Influence solution design and drive adoption through credibility, collaboration, and strong stakeholder engagement.
Clearly communicate risks, decisions, and tradeoffs to both technical and non-technical audiences.
Drive alignment across teams operating at different speeds and maturity levels.

Requirements

Experience in identity and access management within large, complex organisations, ideally in financial services or similarly regulated environments.
Demonstrated success leading or influencing enterprise-scale IAM programs.
Deep expertise in authentication and authorization technologies and standards, including: OAuth 2.0, OpenID Connect, SAML, WS-Federation LDAP, Kerberos, RADIUS
Experience with IAM platforms such as Active Directory, Entra ID (Azure AD), Ping, or equivalent.
Experience supporting or governing identity and access in cloud environments.
Deep understanding of API security and identity patterns, including service-to-service access and token-based authentication.
Understanding of AI identity and access patterns, API authentication, AI/ML authorisation models, and NIST-aligned governance.
Experience aligning IAM controls with application and platform engineering teams.
Understanding of identity risk within regulated environments.
Familiarity with frameworks and regulations such as NIST, ISO, FFIEC, SOX, and SOC.
Proven ability to interpret policy and regulatory requirements and translate them into practical controls.