IT Director

**Company Description**
Eurofins Scientific is an international life sciences company, providing a unique range of analytical testing services to clients across multiple industries, to make life and our environment safer, healthier and more sustainable. From the food you eat, to the water you drink, to the medicines you rely on, Eurofins laboratories work with the biggest companies in the world to ensure the products they supply are safe, their ingredients are authentic, and labelling is accurate.

Eurofins is dedicated to delivering testing services that contribute to the health and safety of society and the planet, and to its corporate responsibility to protect the environment and ensure diversity, equity, and inclusion across the entire network of Eurofins companie_s._
**Job Description** SUMMARY OF POSITION AND OBJECTIVES**:
This role - the** IT Director & Program Manager** - is expected to technically enable Eurofins’ mindset on being a network of independent Laboratories by managing two important IT System. These two IT Systems are a fundamental part of the Identity and Access Management functionalities at Eurofins.

First, the role is accountable for our Identity Lifecycle Management system, which connects various HR systems, includes workflow management capabilities and connects with the technical Identity Stores so that our employees have an IT account.

Secondly, the role for our Federated Access Management System which connects our shared Applications to the different Identity Provider using the Identity Stores.

It is expected that the role takes an end-to-end accountability: from the business requirement to development until the operations & support of the IT Services.

Strong and positive collaboration with many stakeholders in the organization is key to be successful in this role.

**POSITION & OBJECTIVES**:
In this position, you will take part in an important IT Transformation Program.

You will be leading the design and deployment of Identity and Access Management technologies, guiding the organization on best practices and standardization.

You will be able to drive and shape the future of access management by collaborating with the infrastructure and information security teams and managing access security solutions.

You will be able to look beyond the immediate technical problem and identify wider implications. As a point of contact for enquirers and questions around federated access management, you will anticipate problems before they occur and identify the impact of change policy.

You will have the chance to join an international context having high visibility and impact by attending critical meetings with high-level management and leading the discussion on security changes.

It is important that you have a passion for federated access management technologies and can communicate clearly and effectively with the distributed team.

Further responsibilities and technologies include:

- Working knowledge on Identity and Access Management protocols and technologies: OAuth, OpenID Connect, SAML, Federation, Single-sign-on (SSO).
- Working knowledge in IT Service Management and respective processes on Incident, Problem, Change, and Service Request management.
- Experience with multi-factor authentication capabilities including token-based authentication.
- Provide operational training and runbooks for Identity Access Management systems.
- Facilitate issue resolution, enhancements/defect fix implementation, effort estimation.
- Experience in standard operating procedures to perform pre and postproduction support activities

**Qualifications** Are you our kind of extraordinary?**

An MSc in Computer Science or related field is mandatory and excellent English skills are a must. You should have from 8 to 10 years of experience in managing IT teams.

Other requirements include:

- Experience in managing effective teams, along with setting goals and targets for team members.
- Organizational and time-management skills.
- Decision-making skills.
- Excellent interpersonal, teamwork, and communication skills
- Knowledge of Federated Open protocols OAuth 2.0, SAML/OIDC, and usage of proprietary Windows Authentication and Authorization protocols(Kerberos NTLM).
- Knowledge of Microsoft Entra ID, Octa, Ping Federated, or similar technologies.
- Knowledge and hands-on experience with deploying Identity Providers at scale. Understanding of different deployment strategies
- Hand-on knowledge of Microsoft Azure and best practices around operating Microsoft Azure Tenants.
- In-depth knowledge of security open standards and benchmarks(OWASP/CIS).
- Knowledge of Sailpoint IQ and relevant capabilities for managing identities using the Sailpoint platform. Hands-on experience with customization capabilities of the platform along with audit and compliance feature available.
- Knowledge of operational best practices of highly critical platforms. Hands-on knowledge with ITIL Engineering mindset and capability of s