Identity & Access Management Team Lead - IGA Specialist

Accenture CyberSecurity

Accenture CyberSecurity helps organizations prepare, protect, detect, respond, and recover along with all aspects of the security lifecycle. Cybersecurity challenges are different for every business in every industry. Leveraging our global resources and advanced technologies, we create integrated, turnkey solutions tailored to our client's needs across their entire value chain. Whether we’re defending against known cyberattacks, detecting and responding to the unknown, or running an entire security operations center, we will help companies build cyber resilience to grow with confidence. We blend risk strategy, digital identity, cyber defense, application security and managed service solutions to rethink the entire security lifecycle.

We are seeking an experienced Digital Identity Team Lead with strong expertise in Identity Governance and Administration (IGA) to join our Portugal cybersecurity team. This role focuses on leading the design, implementation and continuous improvement of identity governance processes, ensuring secure, compliant and efficient identity lifecycle management across the organization.

As a Team Lead, you will provide technical leadership and day-to-day guidance to the IAM team, while remaining hands-on with SailPoint Identity Security Cloud and SailPoint IdentityIQ. You will be responsible for driving IGA best practices, overseeing access certifications, joiner-mover-leaver processes, role and entitlement management and ensuring alignment with security policies and regulatory requirements.

The ideal candidate combines strong technical knowledge of SailPoint IGA platforms with proven leadership skills, the ability to coordinate stakeholders and a solid understanding of enterprise identity architectures.

What You'll Do

• Lead the design, implementation and evolution of Identity Governance & Administration (IGA) solutions across enterprise environments
• Drive SailPoint IdentityIQ and SailPoint Identity Security Cloud implementations, integrations, enhancements and support activities
• Own and optimize identity lifecycle processes, including Joiner-Mover-Leaver (JML), access requests, access certifications and entitlement management
• Partner with Security, IT, HR and Business stakeholders to implement secure, compliant, and scalable identity governance controls
• Identify and mitigate identity-related risks, including Segregation of Duties (SoD) conflicts and access governance gaps
• Mentor IAM team members, provide technical leadership and promote best practices in identity governance and access management
• Develop automation capabilities and improve operational efficiency through scripting and workflow optimization
• Support Zero Trust initiatives and identity-centric security programs across client environments

What You’ll Bring

• Bachelor's or Master's degree in Computer Science, Information Security, Information Technology or a related field
• Proven experience in Identity & Access Management with a strong focus on Identity Governance & Administration (IGA)
• Hands-on expertise with SailPoint IdentityIQ and/or SailPoint Identity Security Cloud, including solution design, implementation, configuration and troubleshooting
• Strong knowledge of Identity Lifecycle Management, Access Certifications, Access Requests, Entitlement Management, Role-Based Access Control (RBAC) and Segregation of Duties (SoD)
• Experience integrating identity platforms using LDAP, SAML, OAuth and OpenID Connect (OIDC)
• Experience developing automation solutions using PowerShell, Python or similar scripting languages
• Demonstrated leadership skills, with experience mentoring team members and coordinating IAM-related activities
• Strong stakeholder management and communication skills
• Good understanding of Zero Trust architectures, cloud security principles and identity-centric security models
• Familiarity with logging, monitoring and identity-related security event management
• Knowledge of security and compliance frameworks including ISO 27001, NIST and GDPR
• Fluency in English

Legal: Must own a valid work permit or EU/Schengen Space Nationality to legally work in Portugal

What Will Set You Apart

• One or more of the following certifications:
  • SailPoint Certified IdentityIQ Engineer
  • SailPoint Certified IdentityIQ Administrator
  • SailPoint Certified IdentityIQ Architect
  • SailPoint Certified IdentityNow Engineer or Professional
  • CyberArk Certified Delivery Engineer (CDE)
  • CyberArk Identity certifications focused on SSO, MFA and Cloud Identity
  • CompTIA Security+
  • CISSP

Additional Information

Flexibility for occasionally travels within Europe for key project deliveries and client meetings.

About Accenture

Accenture is a leading global professional services company that helps the world’s leading businesses, governments and other organizations build their digital core, optimize their operations, accelerate revenue growth and enhance citizen services—creating tangible value at speed and scale. We are a talent- and innovation-led company with approximately 791,000 people serving clients in more than 120 countries. Technology is at the core of change today, and we are one of the world’s leaders in helping drive that change, with strong ecosystem relationships. We combine our strength in technology and leadership in cloud, data and AI with unmatched industry experience, functional expertise and global delivery capability. Our broad range of services, solutions and assets across Strategy & Consulting, Technology, Operations, Industry X and Song, together with our culture of shared success and commitment to creating 360° value, enable us to help our clients reinvent and build trusted, lasting relationships. We measure our success by the 360° value we create for our clients, each other, our shareholders, partners and communities.

Visit us at www.accenture.com 

Declaração de Igualdade de Oportunidades de Emprego

Acreditamos que ninguém deve ser discriminado por suas diferenças. Todas as decisões de contratação devem ser tomadas sem distinção de idade, raça, credo, cor, religião, sexo, nacionalidade, ascendência, deficiência, condição de veterano militar, orientação sexual, identidade ou expressão de gênero, informação genética, estado civil, cidadania ou qualquer outra condição protegida pela legislação aplicável. Nossa rica diversidade nos torna mais inovadores, competitivos e criativos, o que nos ajuda a atender melhor nossos clientes e nossas comunidades.