**About the Role:** **Grade Level (for internal use):** 11 **The Team** You will join the Identity and Access Management (IAM) leadership team, functioning as the **Operational Excellence Lead** . You will work horizontally across all Identity product lines, ensuring that every solution we deploy meets strict standards for availability and auditability. You will be the primary technical point of contact for internal Audit, Risk, and Infrastructure teams, ensuring that our Identity fabric remains resilient in the face of cyberattacks, outages, or natural disasters. **The Impact** Your work will directly determine the enterprise's ability to survive and recover from a catastrophic cyber event. by hardening our Active Directory and ensuring our Cloud Identity configurations can be restored in minutes, you are the ultimate safety net for the organization. You will transform our compliance posture from "reactive scrambling" to "proactive automation," giving leadership confidence in the security and stability of our access controls. **What’s in it for you?** This is a role for a perfectionist who loves complex systems architecture. You will move beyond "provisioning users" to solving the hardest problems in IT: **"How do we bring the company back online if everything goes dark?"** You will have the authority to challenge existing architectures, implement cutting-edge recovery tools, and lead the strategy for Identity Resilience at a global scale. We are seeking a seasoned **Lead IAM Engineer** to serve as the guardian of our Identity ecosystem. While other teams build new features, your mission is to ensure our Identity platforms (Okta, Active Directory, IGA, PAM) are **unbreakable, recoverable, and compliant** . In this strategic role, you will architect the **Business Continuity and Disaster Recovery (BC/DR)** strategies for the enterprise’s most critical infrastructure. You will bridge the gap between technical resilience (backups, failover, high availability) and regulatory compliance (SOX audits, access certifications). You must possess broad, full-stack experience across all pillars of IAM—Access Management, IGA, and Privileged Access—to effectively identify single points of failure and design robust recovery workflows. **Key Responsibilities** + **IAM Resilience & Availability:** Architect and test High Availability (HA) and Disaster Recovery (DR) patterns for critical services (e.g., Active Directory, Okta, CyberArk). Design "Active-Active" or "Warm Standby" failover strategies to ensure 99.99% uptime. + **Backup & Cyber Recovery:** Own the backup and recovery strategy for Identity data. This includes immutable backups for Active Directory (preventing ransomware lockouts), restoring IGA databases, and managing "Configuration as Code" backups for SaaS configurations (Okta/Entra ID). + **Compliance & Audit Defense:** Lead the technical response for external and internal audits (SOX, SOC2, ISO). Automate the collection of evidence for access controls, ensuring we are "audit-ready" 365 days a year. + **Broad IAM Engineering:** Serve as a Subject Matter Expert (SME) across all IAM domains. Troubleshooting complex issues that span across SSO (Okta), Directory Services (AD/LDAP), Governance (SailPoint/Saviynt), and PAM. + **Identity Integrity & Monitoring:** Implement advanced monitoring to detect configuration drift, unauthorized changes, or replication failures. Ensure that the "Identity Data" is consistent across HR feeds, Directories, and downstream apps. + **Incident Management:** Act as the Major Incident Commander for identity-related outages. Lead Root Cause Analysis (RCA) processes and drive the implementation of preventative fixes. **Required Qualifications** + **Experience:** 10+ years of total IT experience, with **7+ years specialized in Identity & Access Management** . + **Broad IAM Expertise:** You must be a "Full Stack" Identity Engineer with hands-on experience in at least three of the following areas: + **Directory Services:** Deep expert-level knowledge of **Active Directory** (Forest/Domain architecture, replication, GPOs) and LDAP. + **Access Management:** Strong familiarity with **Okta** or **Microsoft Entra ID** (Azure AD). + **IGA:** Experience with **SailPoint** or **Saviynt** (Identity Governance & Administration). + **PAM:** Familiarity with **CyberArk** or **BeyondTrust** . + **Resilience & Recovery:** Proven experience performing **Forest Recoveries** in Active Directory or architecting DR failovers for global IAM platforms. Familiarity with AD recovery toolsis a plus. + **Compliance Frameworks:** Strong understanding of regulatory requirements such as **SOX, NIST 800-53, and GDPR** . Experience automating Access Reviews (UAR) and control testing. + **Scripting & Automation:** Proficiency in **PowerShell, Python, or Terraform** to automate backups, evidence gathering, and configuration recovery. **What’s In It For** **You?** **Our Mission:** Advancing Essential Intelligence. **Our People:** We're more than 35,000 strong worldwide—so we're able to understand nuances while having a broad perspective. Our team is driven by curiosity and a shared belief that Essential Intelligence can help build a more prosperous future for us all.From finding new ways to measure sustainability to analyzing energy transition across the supply chain to building workflow solutions that make it easy to tap into insight and apply it. We are changing the way people see things and empowering them to make an impact on the world we live in. We’re committed to a more equitable future and to helping our customers find new, sustainable ways of doing business. Join us and help create the critical insights that truly make a difference. **Our Values:** **Integrity, Discovery, Partnership** Throughout our history, the world's leading organizations have relied on us for the Essential Intelligence they need to make confident decisions about the road ahead. We start with a foundation of integrity in all we do, bring a spirit of discovery to our work, and collaborate in close partnership with each other and our customers to achieve shared goals. **Benefits:** We take care of you, so you can take care of business. We care about our people. That’s why we provide everything you—and your career—need to thrive at S&P Global. Our benefits include: + Health & Wellness: Health care coverage designed for the mind and body. + Flexible Downtime: Generous time off helps keep you energized for your time on. + Continuous Learning: Access a wealth of resources to grow your career and learn valuable new skills. + Invest in Your Future: Secure your financial future through competitive pay, retirement planning, a continuing education program with a company-matched student loan contribution, and financial wellness programs. + Family Friendly Perks: It’s not just about you. S&P Global has perks for your partners and little ones, too, with some best-in class benefits for families. + Beyond the Basics: From retail discounts to referral incentive awards—small perks can make a big difference. 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If you need an accommodation during the application process due to a disability, please send an email to:  EEO.Compliance@spglobal.com  and your request will be forwarded to the appropriate person.  **US Candidates Only:** The EEO is the Law Poster http://www.dol.gov/ofccp/regs/compliance/posters/pdf/eeopost.pdf   describes discrimination protections under federal law. Pay Transparency Nondiscrimination Provision - https://www.dol.gov/sites/dolgov/files/ofccp/pdf/pay-transp\_%20English\_formattedESQA508c.pdf ----------------------------------------------------------- 20 - Professional (EEO-2 Job Categories-United States of America), IFTECH202.2 - Middle Professional Tier II (EEO Job Group) **Job ID:** 324653 **Posted On:** 2026-01-30 **Location:** Hyderabad, Telangāna, India