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Thinkahead Consultant Psychologist Pty Ltd

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1 - 10 employees

Thinkahead is a privately owned psychology firm working across both the clinical field of private practice as well as corporate consulting space.

📋 Description

• Lead the architecture and design of CIAM and IAM solutions supporting secure customer, partner, and workforce identity use cases across digital and enterprise environments, including authentication, authorization, federation, lifecycle automation, and secure access patterns. • Define reference architectures, technical standards, guardrails, and integration patterns for identity services and applications using protocols and technologies such as OAuth 2.0, OpenID Connect, SAML, SCIM, LDAP, REST APIs, webhooks, and event-driven architectures. • Architect and guide implementation of identity-enabled applications, APIs, portals, and workflows, including customer onboarding, workforce onboarding, joiner-mover-leaver processes, access requests, delegated administration, MFA, identity proofing, registration, account recovery, consent, and progressive profiling. • Drive architecture decisions for identity data models, directory strategy, attribute governance, role, group, and policy design, and integrations across HR, CRM, ITSM, cloud, and other enterprise platforms. • Evaluate and improve identity platforms, integrations, and access patterns to reduce risk, technical debt, and operational friction while ensuring resilience, scalability, observability, auditability, privacy, and compliance by design. • Produce architecture diagrams, standards, roadmaps, decision records, and implementation guidance, and lead design reviews, governance activities, and stakeholder communication to align delivery with security requirements and strategic objectives. • Mentor engineers and administrators, collaborate with vendors and internal teams, and stay current on IAM and CIAM trends, threats, standards, and capabilities to drive continuous improvement and informed architectural recommendations.

🎯 Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, Cybersecurity, Software Engineering, or a related field, or equivalent practical experience. • 8+ years of progressive experience in identity and access management, application security, or enterprise architecture, including significant experience designing identity solutions in complex environments. • 5+ years of experience architecting or leading implementations for CIAM and/or IAM platforms, including authentication, federation, authorization, and lifecycle orchestration use cases. • Practical experience designing integrations across identity providers, cloud platforms, customer-facing applications, HR systems, CRM platforms, IT service management systems, and related enterprise applications. • Expertise in platforms and services such as Okta, Auth0, Microsoft Entra ID, AWS, Azure, Salesforce, ServiceNow, or comparable identity and business platforms. • Demonstrated success in leading technical design for secure APIs, identity-aware applications, and event-driven or service-based integrations. • Required certification in at least one relevant identity or cybersecurity discipline, such as CISSP, CCSP, IDPro, Okta Certified Administrator or Developer, Microsoft SC-300, AWS Security Specialty, or comparable credentials.

🏖️ Benefits

• Medical, Dental, and Vision Insurance • 401(k) • Paid company holidays • Paid time off • Paid parental and caregiver leave • Plus more! See benefits https://www.aheadbenefits.com/ for additional details.