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Abhishek Chowdhury

Identity And Access Management Architect

Summary

Multi-tasking Consultant well-known for successfully taking projects from beginning stages to completion. Successful in managing customer expectations and delivering exceptional results built on extensive industry knowledge and strong technical abilities. Commended for consistently meeting new technical challenges and finding solutions to satisfy customer needs. Demonstrated tangible success in securing initial business as well as developing new business opportunities.


Overview

16
16
years of professional experience
4
4
years of post-secondary education
5
5
Certifications

Work History

IAM Principal Architect/Engineer

Providence Health & Services
Folsom, CA
08.2022 - Current

• Lead and mentor other team members, collaborate and contribute to IAM/IGA roadmap
• Accountable for our Identity Governance strategy, roadmap, and operations and integrations
• Introduce standard methodologies and principles to enable consistent delivery and enable alignment with long-term direction
• Work directly with project development teams to enable successful project implementation applying the recommended security tools, technologies, and techniques
• Share a point of view to project team engineers as needed
• Identify and drive process improvements
• Foster development standard methodologies within the team
• Stay up to date on new tools & techniques in the information security space, conduct proof of concept activities with key business users in support of advanced use cases.

Principal Consultant

Herjavec Group
10.2020 - 08.2022
  • Participate in business and system requirements sessions
  • Requirements elicitation and translation to technical specifications
  • Solution road map for future growth, process architecture and mapping of Identity & Access Management functions.
  • Provide inputs on solution architecture based on evaluation/understanding of solution alternatives, frameworks and products
  • Interact with clients to elicit architectural and non-functional requirements like performance, scalability, reliability, availability, maintainability.
  • Anchor proof of concept (POC) development to validate proposed solution and reduce technical risk.
  • Architect deployment of SailPoint IIQ on AWS cloud
  • Setup AWS Devops for SailPoint IIQ solution deployed on AWS cloud.
  • Work with cross work streams, and determining solution design impacting core frameworks and components
  • Prepare estimations, release plan and road map for future releases
  • Design applications based on identified architecture, and support implementation of design by resolving complex technical issues faced by IT project team during implementation

Technical Architect

SDG Corporation
10.2018 - 10.2020
  • Develop IAM roadmap for customer to move from legacy system to next gen. IAM platform
  • Develop multi-year plan which gives quick ROI using following technologies Ping, SailPoint, CyberArk
  • Convince key stakeholders and owners for application automation
  • Drive implementation of IAM roadmap plan with engineering team
  • Deploy SailPoint IIQ on AWS
  • Design solution for multiple persona management in SailPoint IIQ.
  • Identify simplest way of on-boarding most complex applications
  • Develop strategy for co-existence of Ping, Sailpoint & CyberArk.
  • Learn and apply best practices to make IAM program futuristic.

Senior Security Consultant

Optiv
02.2017 - 10.2018
  • Plan and conduct discovery sessions with key stakeholders
  • Review and assist in finalizing requirements and use case documentations
  • Prioritizing business needs and identify gaps
  • Provide effort estimations and review project timelines
  • Task distribution to offshore team members
  • Design connectors and data model for following targets in SailPoint IIQ
  • AD,O365,Remedy,Multiplex (JDBC), Web Services
  • Design custom user access certification for roles and entitlements
  • Design custom request access process with multi-level approvals and escalations.
  • Design various Lifecycle events (Joiner, mover leaver) in accordance to business requirements to manager employee and contractors
  • SSO implementation using ADFS and IIQ
  • Process development for further enhancements, code migration/testing for agile methodologies.

Lead Consultant

Infosys
08.2015 - 02.2017
  • Meeting with customer for requirement gathering.
  • Worked within agile methodology and identified and prioritized the business needs
  • Provide key inputs in solution architecture based on the features of SailPoint IIQ.
  • Writing Technical Design Document for various modules.
  • Lead team of 10 developers and assign various development tasks to them.
  • Configure LCM events for different phases of Life Cycle (transfers, last day office, custom business logic).
  • Configure Business Processes (workflows) for managing lifecycle events of service accounts.
  • Troubleshooting various performance and task related issues in production, mostly due to bad coding practice and corrupt data upload.
  • Configure various read-only and provisioning connectors to integrate customer’s
  • applications(AD,JDBC, LDAP, SAP)
  • Writing custom tasks and rule libraries for various development activities.
  • Evaluation of the new patches and versions of SailPoint to identify the criticality of new upgrade.

Technical Lead

Wipro
09.2012 - 08.2015
  • Requirement gathering with application owners and stakeholders.
  • Work on the assigned user stories and deliver as per the streams defined.
  • Provide recommendations and inputs in solution design based on the features of SailPoint IIQ.
  • Creating technical Design Document for use cases to be implemented.
  • Lead development team at offshore and task distribution.
  • Configure events such as Joiner, mover leaver, rehire and conversions.
  • Configure provisioning workflows to generate appropriate identity request for tracking.
  • Troubleshooting various performance and task related issues in production, mostly due to bad coding practice and corrupt data upload.
  • Configure various read-only and provisioning connectors to integrate customer's applications (SAP ,Rest, JDBC, AD)

Consultant

Deloitte AERS
04.2010 - 09.2012
  • Create a standard application on-boarding playbook for client using Aveksa
  • Define one generic schema for all the applications to simplify the on-boarding
  • Define exception handling process to handle the exceptions in application feed
  • Conduct on-boarding workshops with stakeholders
  • Analysis the data feed provided and determine the appropriate attributes that are required for the certification process
  • Design the User Access Certification process for the client, which is a LOB(line of business) based certification
  • LOB's were not available in data feed, so create a custom code to accept LOB's as a separate list and assign them the appropriate certifications
  • Customize the workflow to design a three(approve, reject, suspend) decision based certification , this was a completely unique design and cannot be implemented using simple OOTB features
  • Integrate existing ITIM(Tivoli Identity Manager) with Aveksa, to automate the remediation process
  • Customize the remediation workflow for various conditions and customize forms, for the input variables
  • Write complex SQL queries to generate custom reports

Senior Systems Engineer

Infosys
12.2006 - 04.2010
  • Capture all requirements for migration form current legacy access certification process to Sun Role Manager
  • Design and implementation of an utility in java(pre-processor) which will translate data in required format
  • Design and implement a new java interfaces which will manage differences between Legacy system and new Sun Role Manager Based system
  • Understand database of Sun Role Manager(Oracle) and DB2 and write Unix scripts and java code which will generate reports from both database in .csv format
  • Make changes in old Legacy system with respect to new Sun role manager which was built using J2EE/EJB technology

Education

Bachelor of Engineering - Computer Science

University of Rajasthan
Jaipur, RJ
08.2002 - 08.2006

Skills

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Certification

CISSP

Timeline

IAM Principal Architect/Engineer

Providence Health & Services
08.2022 - Current

Okta Certified Professional

02-2022

AWS Solutions Architect - Associate

09-2021

SailPoint Certified IdentityNow Cloud Engineer

08-2021

Principal Consultant

Herjavec Group
10.2020 - 08.2022

SailPoint Certified IdentityIQ Security Architect

03-2019

Technical Architect

SDG Corporation
10.2018 - 10.2020

CISSP

08-2018

Senior Security Consultant

Optiv
02.2017 - 10.2018

Lead Consultant

Infosys
08.2015 - 02.2017

Technical Lead

Wipro
09.2012 - 08.2015

Consultant

Deloitte AERS
04.2010 - 09.2012

Senior Systems Engineer

Infosys
12.2006 - 04.2010

Bachelor of Engineering - Computer Science

University of Rajasthan
08.2002 - 08.2006
Abhishek ChowdhuryIdentity And Access Management Architect