# Identity and Access Management Technical Expert

Position Summary The IAM Technical Expert is a senior hands-on expert technical authority accountable for the architecture, detailed solution design, integrated technical implementation and orchestration of KAUST’s enterprise Identity and Access Management (IAM), Privileged Access Management (PAM), and Identity Governance and Administration (IGA) capabilities. The role leads secure identity integration across Microsoft Entra, Saviynt, a selected PAM technology, and enterprise, cloud, academic and research systems. It drives phased deployment, engineering quality, automation and operational readiness, establishing sustainable services with formally designated owners. Major Responsibilities Enterprise Identity Architecture & Technical Direction Own the end-to-end IAM, PAM and IGA target architecture, reference designs, implementation principles and phased technical roadmap aligned with KAUST security strategy and Zero Trust principles. Define trust boundaries, identity data flows, authoritative sources, integration patterns, identity stores and control ownership across on-premises, hybrid and multi-cloud environments. Act as design authority for cross-platform technical decisions,

- **Id**: 4022616
- **Url**: <https://alion.io/job/kaust-identity-and-access-management-technical-expert>
- **Role**: Security
- **Role family**: Security
- **Seniority**: senior
- **Work mode**: on_site
- **Hiring geo confidence**: structured
- **Locations**: Saudi Arabia
- **Countries**: SA
- **Hiring countries total**: 0
- **Experience years min**: 10
- **Visa sponsorship**: no
- **Relocation package**: no
- **Has equity**: no
- **Status**: live
- **First seen at**: 2026-11-10T15:42:13Z
- **Employer posted date**: 2026-11-10
- **Last verified at**: 2026-11-11T08:45:00Z
- **Board verified**: yes
- **Days open**: 0
- **Description format**: text
- **Description chars**: 12291
- **Description truncated**: yes
- **Relocation offered**: no
- **Industries**: Identity Management, Higher Education

## Company

- **Id**: 36398
- **Name**: KAUST
- **Domain**: kaust.edu.sa
- **Url**: <https://alion.io/company/kaust-discovery>
- **Is staffing agency**: no
- **Employer type**: direct
- **Is intermediary**: no
- **Ats vendor**: SuccessFactors

## Technologies

- **BeyondTrust** — Optional: no
- **CyberArk** — Optional: no
- **Delinea** — Optional: no
- **IAM** — Optional: no
- **ITSM** — Optional: no
- **LDAP** — Optional: no
- **Least Privilege** — Optional: no
- **PKI** — Optional: no
- **SIEM** — Optional: no
- **Threat Modeling** — Optional: no
- **Zero Trust** — Optional: no

## Trust

- **Level**: ok
- **Days open**: 0

## Requirements

- **Experience years min**: 10
- **Manages managers**: no
- **Security clearance**: no

### Education

- **Level**: bachelor
- **Optional**: yes

## Lifecycle

- Event: open; At: 2026-11-10T15:42:13Z

## Liveness

- **Score**: 86
- **Band**: hot
- **Label**: Hiring now
- **P open**: 1
- **P active**: 0.86
- **P room**: 1
- **Age days**: 0
- **Expected fill days**: 29
- **Reasons**: conf:2, win:early
- **Computed at**: 2026-11-11T05:49:22Z

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