Harshini Anandakumar

Description:Led end-to-end IAM delivery and audit remediation, developing secure, compliant solutions while managing risks, governance, and client communications; directed large-scale application onboarding, strengthened cross-team collaboration, and ensured SLA-driven, high-quality project execution

• Team lead for development and audit remediation
• Develop IAM solutions that align with the client’s needs, ensuring they are scalable, secure, and compliant
• Team management, Managing Risk, exception and mitigation plan to ensure timely delivery
• Lead the project, ensuring timely and effective implementation of IAM solutions, from development to deployment
• Managed and delivered high-value RFP responses, contributing to contract wins
• Provided technical leadership and strategic direction to the development team, guiding solution design, resolving complex technical challenges, and ensuring high-quality code through rigorous reviews.
• Stepped into a leadership role to stabilize project delivery, ensuring timelines were met and deliverables were accurate despite gaps in formal team leadership.
• Acted as onsite coordinator, driving closure of critical action items through structured collaboration with application teams and stakeholders.
• Managed end-to-end application onboarding into IAM platforms, leading kickoff sessions, defining integration strategy, and presenting tailored IAM solutions to application owners.
• Designed and implement best-practice Identity & Access Management solutions, ensuring compliance with security and governance standards.
• Conducted detailed performance assessments of team members, implemented targeted improvement plans, and aligned responsibilities with individual skillsets to improve productivity and delivery predictability.
• Proactively managed client communications, ensuring timely responses to critical queries and preventing delays in key deliverables.
• Ensured strict adherence to client-defined development standards, pull request timelines, and governance guidelines to maintain delivery excellence.
• Led audit package preparation and submission, ensuring compliance and on-time delivery within agreed SLAs.
• Served as the primary liaison for application onboarding and re-onboarding initiatives, streamlining workflows and improving turnaround time.
• Enhanced cross-functional collaboration between development, application, and IAM teams to ensure seamless integration and operational efficiency.

Description : Leading IAM/PAM framework design for a major European bank, defining authentication, authorization, SoD, and role models to enable secure onboarding of 100+ applications

• Working on creating IAM and PAM concept for one of the leading European banks, to summarize the authentication and authorization related questionnaires for stakeholders. This also contains information about account types, SoD enforcement, role models, etc. This will also serve as prima facie for subsequent onboarding of 100+ applications for the organization.
• Received hands-on training on Garancy IAM Suite for SDK, GUI & Data customization, listbox creation, extended attributes, server exits, multipurpose tables, custom reports, etc.
• Hands-on experience with process design and implementation, simulation, form creation, etc.
• Conducted internal training for SailPoint IIQ for 4 people.
• Implemented policy in Active Directory for users and groups
• Experience with Powershell to connect and perform activities in Active Directories like
• Performed user and group operations, exchange related operations like setting OOO message, clearing OOO message, group creation and deletion, user creation and deletion, etc. to name a few
• Interconnected on-premise Active Directory with on-cloud Azure Active Directory to enable data sync as per business needs

Description:To work with major insurance client based out of US to widen the scope of IGA capabilities across their technology landscape and reduce overall risk exposure by providing hybrid framework, application onboarding with access request enabled to utilize SailPoint to its fullest capacity. Onboarded 500+ applications in 18 months with approval framework in place

• Managed and led the engineering team to onboard/integrate various types of applications (connected, disconnected and hybrid) for SailPoint IGA, provisioning and deprovisioning. Successfully integrated 500+ applications over a period of 18 months to meet client’s compliance and audit requirements
• Involved in meetings to understand the project design specs
• Coordinate with various stakeholders to analyze the applications integration requirements.
• Manage, guide and work with various teams to implement and deliver the solutions.
• Involved in designing and implementing complex business solutions.
• Prioritize applications and identify key stakeholders for design and requirement discussions for setting up the access request framework
• Define and implement a centralized access request interface in SailPoint IIQ
• Expand the current application inventory by onboarding additional endpoints/applications to the IGA solution leveraging the frameworks/accelerators created.
• Plugin development for
  Custom Identity AI suggestion
  Task result monitoring dashboard
  Extending policy violation acceptance time with mandate comment
• Sound cognizance of industry compliance standards such as GDPR, PCI, SOX/SOC1/MAR Compliance Applications
• Coordinating with the Governance & Audit teams to build efficient audit plans that assess & mitigate key risks.
• Involved in cost and effort estimate for project planning and critical strategic decision.

Description: To optimize IdentityIQ’s current state, onboard applications,implement workflows, certify users and meet compliance requirements

• Installed and administered Active Directory, managing users, security groups, application groups, and search/filter policies.
• Designed and implemented workflows, forms, QuickLinks, and multi-level approval processes in SailPoint IIQ.
• Onboarded 300+ applications using JDBC, Web Services, Okta, SAP, Salesforce, and Delimited File connectors.
• Led large-scale Access Review & Certification campaigns (100–200+ applications) ensuring SOX, SOC1, and PCI compliance.
• Developed custom tasks (Role/Workgroup Export, connectivity validation, automation frameworks) and implemented custom reports.
• Customized certification GUI, branding, localization (US & Europe), and performed UI enhancements using XHTML/CSS.
• Integrated SailPoint IIQ with ITSM/ALM tools including ServiceNow, JIRA, VSTS, and HP ALM.
• Built automation and regression test packs using UFT, Ranorex, and batch scripting; managed defect lifecycle in HP Quality Center.
• Conducted UAT, risk assessment, documentation, and contributed to effort estimation and strategic planning.