IAM Security, Specialist

Who We Are
Every transaction matters. Every Canadian matters. At Interac, we protect both — driving trust, security, and inclusion, so our digital economy thrives.

Founded in 1984, Interac connects Canadians through secure digital payments, advanced identity verification and industry‑leading fraud protection. Connecting banks, businesses, and individuals, Interac enables millions to send, receive, and manage money safely and effortlessly every day — across both digital and physical environments.

As the backbone of Canada’s financial ecosystem, Interac facilitates over 20 million transactions daily, supported by trusted partnerships with government and financial institutions. Consistently ranked as Canada’s most reputable financial technology brand, Interac is deeply embedded in the daily lives of Canadians.

Who You Will Work With
The vacant IAM Security, Specialist role will report to the Leader, Infrastructure Engineering.

The Identity and Access Management (IAM) Specialist is responsible for how users at Interac Corp. will be provided access to networks, systems and applications. The IAM analyst manages user lifecycle following established operating procedures and processes and in compliance with Access Control policies and standards. As a member of a growing and dedicated Cyber Security team, the analyst works closely with other members across IT Operations, Infrastructure and Platform teams including partner suppliers to ensure operations run securely.

This role is critical in ensuring timely resolution of access requests and in interfacing with various departments to establish and document access profile standards.

In this role, you work with the various teams to maintain the organization’s security posture. You want to know as much about the state of the environment as you can, and you can think outside the box when it comes to proposing solutions that benefit the enterprise.

What You Will Do

Manage identity, accounts and permission in leading industry Identity Governance and Administration (IGA), Privileged Access Management (PAM), Secrets Management and Customer Identity and Access Management (CIAM) solutions

Support security projects related to application integration and onboarding of assets to the IAM/PAM solution

Work with different teams to complete prerequisites for asset onboarding

Work within the security team and other parts of the organization to refine and introduce new processes and services with efficiency

Responsible for writing and maintaining access management and control Standard Operational Procedures (SOPs)

Responsible for the day‑to‑day operations of access request, provisioning and administration processes (ensuring access is provisioned/modified/removed accurately and in a timely manner)

Responsible for execution and enforcement of logical access controls, as part of access request, provisioning and administration processes

Respond to user account and access issues in a timely manner and troubleshoot issues related to application administrator function

Coordinate and work with Level‑2, Vendor, Infrastructure teams if in‑depth troubleshooting is needed

Meet SLA requirements for user requests. Respond urgently to critical issues

Participate in change activities related to the solutions managed by the IAM team and work on application admin tasks

Perform QA tests related to basic IAM use cases after patching, upgrades, hardening changes that can affect application performance

Participate in account discovery, asset scan and function testing as part of the project implementation work

Monitor inbox for alerts related to objects in PAM solution and troubleshoot issues identified

Responsible for execution of the access certification, Segregation of Duties (SoD) / exception reporting, and remediation processes and corresponding access controls, as defined by the Access Control Operational Processes and Procedures

Perform the day‑to‑day operational responsibilities related to IAM including single sign‑on, authentication/MFA, identity governance, privileged access management, and secrets management

Work with Infrastructure and Operations teams to enforce security standards of Interac Corp

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