Assoc. Dir. DDIT ISC Identity & Access Management AD

Overview

Senior, hands-on identity security leader serving as enterprise subject matter expert for Microsoft Entra ID, hybrid identity and agentic identity security.

What you'll do

• Serve as the enterprise subject matter expert and senior technical leader for Microsoft Entra ID, Hybrid Identity, and emerging Agentic Identity security.
• Own the security architecture, design, operational governance, and control framework for Microsoft Entra ID, including B2B/B2C, workload identities, and agent identities.
• Define and implement identity security standards, hardening baselines, Conditional Access controls, Zero Trust principles, and security guardrails across the identity ecosystem.
• Lead identity threat detection, protection, incident response, and recovery, including investigations involving compromised identities, risky users/sign-ins, password-spray attacks, and other identity-based threats.
• Identify and remediate identity security weaknesses and attack paths, partnering with Cyber Defense and SOC teams to strengthen detection and response capabilities.
• Govern privileged access, administrative accounts, application onboarding, provisioning, and identity lifecycle controls across large-scale enterprise environments.
• Establish and track identity security KPIs, KRIs, control effectiveness, operational health, and risk-reduction metrics, providing clear updates to security leadership.
• Provide technical leadership for complex, multi-year identity transformation initiatives, resolving architectural and operational roadblocks and driving secure, scalable solutions.
• Support internal and external audits, regulatory requirements, and compliance reviews by ensuring identity controls, evidence, and governance processes are effective and audit-ready.
• Drive operational excellence through automation, engineering discipline, continuous improvement, innovation, and adoption of emerging identity-security capabilities.

What you'll need

• 10–12+ years of experience in enterprise Identity and Access Management, with significant hands-on responsibility for large-scale Microsoft Entra ID and hybrid identity environments.
• Deep technical expertise in Microsoft Entra ID security, including Conditional Access, External Identities, Identity Protection, Identity Governance, privileged access, application integration, and provisioning technologies such as SCIM.
• Strong knowledge of Identity Threat Detection and Response (ITDR), identity attack techniques, prevention controls, incident response, and recovery strategies.
• Proven experience designing and implementing identity controls aligned with Zero Trust architecture, security governance, and enterprise risk-management principles.
• Demonstrated ability to lead complex, multi-year identity-security programmes as a senior technical expert, resolving architectural challenges and translating strategy into practical solutions.
• Experience operating in a large, highly regulated enterprise environment, with a strong understanding of audit, compliance, control design, and evidence requirements.
• Ability to analyse identity-security data, identify risks and attack paths, define remediation priorities, and communicate technical risks clearly to senior stakeholders.
• Strong stakeholder-management and leadership skills, with the ability to engage effectively with security leadership, auditors, architects, engineering teams, Cyber Defense, and SOC functions.

Nice to have

• Strong working knowledge of Active Directory and hybrid identity architecture.
• Relevant certifications such as Microsoft Identity and Access Administrator (SC-300), Microsoft Azure Security Engineer (AZ-500), CISSP, or CISM.
• Knowledge of emerging Agentic Identity and AI-agent governance models, including lifecycle, access, security, monitoring, and accountability considerations.

Details

• Location: Hyderabad (Office).