Praveen Gopinath
IAM Delivery Manager
Bengaluru
Summary
Accomplished IAM Project Delivery Manager with a proven track record at TATA Consultancy Services Pvt Ltd, specializing in Identity Access Management and excelling in project team coordination. Expert in leading complex projects to enhance security and compliance, evidenced by certifications in Saviynt IGA, SailPoint Identity Security, AWS Solution Architect & Professional Certified, ForgeRock Core Access Management Course Certified, CISM & CC (Certificate in Cybersecurity) Certified Cyber Security Specialist. Demonstrates exceptional interpersonal communication skills and a commitment to delivering innovative solutions.
Overview
13
13
years of professional experience
7
7
Certificates
Work History
IAM Project Delivery Manager
TATA Consultancy Services Pvt Ltd
08.2022 - Current
- Coordinating and collaborating with customers, stakeholders, and the IAM Ops team for IAM operation activities.
- Designing in problem solving, a strong innovative technical background, and industry experience in secure solution design with the IAM suite of technology.
- Facilitate business requirements and analysis, coordinating with the stakeholders, and managing the project from end to end with successful project deliverables and milestones.
- Engaged with the security architect to document the high-level technical design and infrastructure workflow architecture for banking applications.
- Managing the risk analyses to identify appropriate security countermeasures and develop mitigation plans. Adherence to security compliance and regulations for assessment and auditing.
- Development of policies, procedures, and minimum baseline security standards. Coordinate with various teams for the closure of vulnerabilities and patch management activities.
- Engaged with the IAM team for Saviynt ops for one / two-level, risk-based access requests, and configuration of the rules and policies for Technical (Birthright access) and user update rules use cases.
- Involved with the team for user access reviews in Saviynt, such as campaigns and certifications, with the user manager, entitlement owner, rule owner, application owner, and organizational owner use cases.
- Analyzing the risk implications of implementing the SoD functionalities with the SoD violations, and mitigating controls with the SoD on-demand use cases.
- Extensively engaged primarily with the Okta SSO/MFA for integrating with SAML for business requirements and process management.
- Streamlining the process and recommendations for the upliftment of Service Accounts, USB access, and privilege accounts with validation according to the checklist, aligning with the business requirements and governance review approvals.
- Implemented continuous improvement initiatives to identify areas of inefficiency in the project delivery process and develop solutions for optimization.
IAM Project Manager
TATA Consultancy Services Ltd
04.2019 - 07.2022
- Successfully managed multiple projects simultaneously by prioritizing tasks according to urgency, resource availability, and alignment with organizational goals.
- Handle key accountabilities and capabilities, including planning, requirements analysis, elicitation, and lifecycle management, project strategy analysis, design definition, and solution evaluation.
- Perform tasks primarily within the boundaries of a IAM project from a diverse range of perspectives, including Waterfall, Agile, Information Technology, and business process management.
- Engaged with the IAM ops team on various functionalities in Saviynt, such as application onboarding for connected and disconnected applications, and Data Analyzer for analytics reports with SQL, runtime queries, and dashboards.
- Managing the risk analyses to identify appropriate security countermeasures and develop mitigation plans. Adherence to security compliance and regulations for assessment and auditing.
- Managing generic accounts, non-network IDs, and privilege/admin accounts. Configuration of security groups and distribution groups for admin users onboarding activities.
- Reviewed and engaged in DR procedure activities to achieve security compliance.
- Lead and support the technical aspects of compliance and audits for external auditors.
- Monitored project performance to identify areas of improvement and make adjustments.
Technical Lead - PAM Engineering
TATA Consultancy Services Ltd
01.2015 - 03.2019
- Managing the project for the PAM CyberArk product by overseeing user creation, managing accounts, workflows, and issues that persist with CyberArk.
- Understanding the business requirements, designed and developed for the existing CyberArk connectors based on the Requirement for end-to-end design and development.
- Administered and Involved in the CyberArk version Upgrade and designed the plugin to connectors in CyberArk components.
- Developed the Multiple Onboarding Service Account for the CyberArk components.
- Automated the onboarding utility for new feeds to be synced with the CyberArk components. Upgraded the CyberArk Plugin component to support the multiple onboarding functionalities.
- Validated the new Database accounts for different databases and automate the workflow process using autoit scripting for seamless flow.
- Mentored junior developers through regular 1-on-1 meetings, providing guidance on best practices, coding standards, and career growth opportunities.
- Coordinated with cross-department teams like QA, DevOps, and Support to ensure seamless end-to-end software delivery process.
Software Engineer - IT Analyst
MindTeck India Pvt Ltd
10.2011 - 08.2014
- OIAM administrator and implementing the OAM with the web gates of OHS and IHS.
- Developed the F5 configuration with the help of the Network team for seamless load balancing of the traffic via servers.
- Developed the SSO for all new onboarding business applications. The performance of OAM tuning is implemented efficiently for all business-critical applications.
- Implemented and tested the DR setup environment, and it went live successfully. Monitor the WebLogic tasks, such as Startup and Shutdown, tcpdumps, and JDBC connection pools.
- Designing the database and WebLogic infrastructure to be secure and stable by monitoring and applying security and bug fixes, along with regular backups of the database and creating roles in OIM.
- Oracle patching is applied on the nodes to fix the bugs and vulnerabilities of the product. Performance tuning the Java heap values for the servers to attain maximum efficiency.
- Analyzed proposed technical solutions based on customer business requirements.
- Enhanced user experience with intuitive interface design and responsive web applications.
Education
M.Tech - Computer And Information Sciences
VIT University
Vellore, India 04.2001 -
B.Tech - Information Science
Amrita School of Engineering
Bengaluru, India 04.2001 -
Skills
Identity Access Management
Certification
SailPoint Identity Security Leader
Timeline
IAM Project Delivery Manager
TATA Consultancy Services Pvt Ltd
08.2022 - Current
IAM Project Manager
TATA Consultancy Services Ltd
04.2019 - 07.2022
Technical Lead - PAM Engineering
TATA Consultancy Services Ltd
01.2015 - 03.2019
Software Engineer - IT Analyst
MindTeck India Pvt Ltd
10.2011 - 08.2014
M.Tech - Computer And Information Sciences
VIT University
04.2001 -
B.Tech - Information Science
Amrita School of Engineering
04.2001 -
SailPoint Identity Security Leader
01/2025
Saviynt IGA Professional Certified
11/2024
Certificate in Cybersecurity (CC) by ISC
10/2023
AWS Solution Architect & Professional Certified
04/2022
Certificate in Information Security Manager (CISM) by ISACA
09/2021
ForgeRock Core Access Management Course Certified
12/2020
Google Cybersecurity Coursera certified
04/2023
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