Digital Trust & Cyber - Manager - IAM Architect

Date: Sep 25, 2025

Location: Riyadh, SA

Company: PwC MiddleEast

Business Unit Description

Why PwC

Established in the region for over 40 years, PwC Middle East employs over 6,000 people across 12 countries: Bahrain, Egypt, Iraq, Jordan, Kuwait, Lebanon, Libya, Oman, Qatar, Saudi Arabia, Palestine and the United Arab Emirates. Complementing our depth of industry expertise and breadth of skills is our sound knowledge of local business environments across the Middle East region. Our tailored solutions help our clients meet the challenges and opportunities of doing business in the Middle East market, and beyond.

BU Description

PwC's Technology Consulting team in the GCC region is helping public and private sector clients improve customer and employee value through digital strategies and implementation. The team focuses on increasing customer engagement, providing employees with tools, and optimizing and digitizing operations. PwC emphasizes the need for purpose-led and values-driven leaders at all levels to stay relevant in a rapidly changing world. The company uses the PwC Professional framework to set expectations and develop skills necessary for career success.
 

Job Summary

A career in our Digital Trust & Cyber technology services will allow you to work under the supervision of cyber security leadership within the Technology Consulting practice. Use strategic business consulting skills to work with clients through all stages of strategy-based transformation projects. Provide support on client assignments that help to develop a strategy and then refocus an organization on making that strategy a reality. We are a growing team and looking for dynamic, flexible, proactive and hardworking consultants who have a passion for shaping cyber security positively in the GCC over the coming years. We have a strong pipeline of large, transformational opportunities with our clients which will provide great opportunities for all our people to step up and play significant and rewarding roles in an entrepreneurial and innovation driven environment.

Roles & Responsibilities

As a Manager, you'll work as part of a team of problem solvers, helping to solve complex business issues from strategy to execution. PwC Professional skills and responsibilities for this management level include but are not limited to:

  • Develop IAM architecture (integrated processes, applications, data and technology) solutions to business problems in alignment with PwC reference IAM frameworks
  • Research and evaluate new IAM security solutions, including lab tests, proof of concepts and pilots. Make operational and technology recommendations which influence IAM operations
  • Develop solutions and recommendations for technical and process challenges, emerging threats and technology changes
  • Planning and live deployment of IAM turnkey solutions including onboarding of client applications
  • Provide level 2 support for clients and coordinate as needed with the technology vendors for L3 support
  • Producing IAM technical documentation such IAM detailed design, configuration guides etc.
  • Support on business development (bids) including defining scope of work and interacting with clients and the vendors as required during the proposal development.

Additional Roles & Responsibilities

Skills and Competencies

  • To qualify, candidates must have a real passion for Cybersecurity in general and particularly for Identity and Access Management. A focused state of mind to understand how technology can assist and support to actively hunt and protect from the cyber threats we face today. We are looking for an IAM practitioner with capability and experience in some of the following areas:
  • Experience in designing and implementation of the following IAM capabilities:
  • Access Management
  • Identity Governance
  • Directory Services
  • Identity Provisioning
  • Identity Management
  • Identity Management as a Service
  • In-depth knowledge in user provisioning, directory services, authentication, authorization, public key infrastructure, and identity federation.
  • In-depth knowledge of authentication, authorization and Federation standards such as SAML, OAuth, OpenID, XACML and others
  • Deployment and configuring common IAM products (including but not limited to SailPoint, ForgeRock, Alert Enterprise, Oracle, RSA…), and Enterprise Directory solutions including Active Directory
  • A strong understanding of Information Security Architecture and ecosystem technologies and concepts required: Firewalls, intrusion detection, monitoring tools, encryption, certificate authority, reverse proxy, etc.
  • Good understanding and knowledge of the following security areas:
  • Information risk, privacy, and strategy (i.e. security and privacy policies, or risk assessments, or security and privacy compliance);
  • Application security; (i.e. application security testing or security integrations with Systems Development Lifecycle (SDL) )
  • Infrastructure security; (i.e.- securing networks and servers or security monitoring)
  • Data security or encryption
  • A strong understanding of broad Information Security topics and in particular a deep knowledge of Identity and Access Management Architecture is required
  • Technical writing skills including functional and technical specifications
  • Software development background
  • Strong analytical and problem-solving skills
  • Cyber Incident Response

Educational Qualifications & Certifications

Minimum Degree: Must have a Bachelor degree in Computer, Information Systems or Engineering related field preferred
Minimum years of experience: 8+ years of progressive IT experience with at least 5+ years as IAM engineer delivering enterprise solutions in the technology domain.
Internationally recognized technical certifications in relevant areas