Identity and Access Management Experts in Austria
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Meet FRATCH Experts in Austria, who have recently used Identity and Access Management
David J.
Last position:
External AI Solution Architecture Engagement via Zühlke
- Challenge: Assess the feasibility of voice support for patient intake, pre-qualification, routing and documentation.
- Action: Designed the speech recognition, agent control, documentation and integration architecture; assessed latency, language quality, privacy and regulatory requirements.
- Result: Built a working multilingual proof of concept in three days, demonstrating voice interaction, triage, suspected diagnosis and AI-supported documentation. This made the next technical and clinical review points visible. No production deployment is documented.
Jerry B.
Last position:
Owner at DIGIPM Consulting e.U.
From 02/2023 to 05/2024: IT interim manager within an international construction chemicals group headquartered in Germany as Global TSA Manager in a carve-out project responsible for the IT workstream.
End-to-end management of an international IT carve-out and TSA program, including transition of five service providers, governance and operating structures, service continuity, provider performance, SLA/KPI and cost management, SIAM and supplier management, security services, operational readiness, and transition into stable operations.
From 06/2024: IT consulting in project management and IT service management areas, providing PM/PMO coaching and support.
Christian E.
Last position:
Cyber Trust Austria Silver Certification at PrimeFaktor GmbH
Cyber Trust Austria Silver Certification
- Led application and implementation of the Cyber Trust Austria Silver label (KSV1870 Cyber Risk A-Rating; 25 validated controls)
- Mapped and fulfilled requirements covering risk management, incident response, access control, vulnerability and penetration testing, BCM, and supply-chain security, aligned with ISO/IEC 27001/27002 control themes and NIS 2 / NISG 2026 expectations
- Coordinated stakeholders, compiled audit evidence, and completed KSV1870 validation
Lucas G.
Last position:
Self-Employed Management Consultant at nospia e.U.
Provided expert consultancy services to a range of clients, supporting their compliance and security objectives across multiple domains. Key projects and responsibilities included:
- Lead consultant for successful ISO 27001 certification projects, including readiness assessments and audit support
- Conducted comprehensive risk reviews and gap analyses to identify and remediate compliance and security vulnerabilities
- Developed, and improved internal and external policies, guidelines, and procedures related to information security and data protection
- Delivered tailored training sessions to employees on security best practices and data protection obligations
- Negotiated and drafted compliance-related contractual clauses, including DPAs and security-related provisions.
- Designed consent management strategies and ensured effective technical implementation of cookie banners in compliance with regulatory requirements
Michael L.
Last position:
IAM Developer & IT Architect at Internationale Bank
Design and implementation of new functionalities in the areas of Lifecycle Management (LCM), Role Management (RLM) and Access Governance
Adjustment of the company-wide Segregation of Duties (SoD) matrix to ensure regulatory and internal compliance requirements
Further development and configuration of recertification processes
Creation and adaptation of custom workflows, rules and tasks in SailPoint IdentityIQ (BeanShell, XML, Java)
Use of static code analysis with SonarQube to ensure code quality and compliance with defined development standards
Regular code reviews within the development team to ensure quality, share knowledge and follow clean code principles
Work in an agile Scrum team with daily communication, sprint planning and reviews
Coordination with testers, test managers and business departments to ensure quality and smooth production rollout
Active involvement in release planning and deployment coordination, including test preparation, cutover activities and rollback strategies
Analysis and sustainable resolution of issues in the IAM production environment (2nd- and 3rd-level support)
Reproduction of complex errors, identification of root causes and implementation of lasting fixes
Creation of technical analyses and recommendations for operations and further development
Kurt B.
Last position:
Backend / Microservices Developer, DevOps, Test Automation at Fa. RCA, Rail Cargo Austria AG
- Backend / Microservices Developer, DevOps, Test Automation
- ~100 Developers, ~10 Teams, per Team: 1 PO, 1 ScrumMaster, 1UX, 1 Developers, 1 Tester
- .net core 8, 9, C#
- Microservices, Clean Architecture, MediatR, CQRS
- GraphQL, REST, SDL
- Azure DevOps, CI / CD pipelines, Azure Service Bus, Rabbit-MQ, Kafka, Azure App Configuration, Azure KeyVault, Azure Kubernetes AKS
- Splunk, dashboards, custom metrics, Elastic-Search, Kibana (ELK)
- Azure SQL Databases, Azure Cosmos DB
- Architecture decisions, event governance, COP (Backend, DevOps, FrontEnd, Test Automation)
- AI, Copilot, creating Test Templates
- Scheduler, Hangfire, Quartz
- Automated Unit and Integration Tests
- Automated E2E Tests, Playwright Test Automation, BDD, Gherkin, Cucumber
- Shipment tracking
- GIS, GPS data, geofence, geo search, position tracking, asset positions
- Jira, Confluence
- Focus on high-performance message-oriented architecture (~xx e6 messages / month / service)
- Structured logging, Serilog, OTel, Splunk, Application Monitoring
- Integration of different position data sources (GPS-based data) into AzureDataLake
Laura H.
Last position:
Sr. BI Consultant & Project Manager at Multivariata
- Project Lead, Sr. BI Expert, Data Scientist, Automation Engineer for Marketing Analytics | Customer Insights (retail, e-commerce)
- Product Manager: Asset Metadata Ingest & Provide
- Product Owner Business Intelligence – responsible for 2 teams: cloud data engineering, data warehouse (logistics)
- Product Owner for setting up a reporting platform on Azure & Power BI (finance)
Matthias M.
Last position:
IT Consultant at Backup4U Datenverarbeitung GmbH
- Role-based access control (RBAC) for dmTECH across the DM Group (2024–2026)
- Completion of the Lotus Notes replacement for R-IT (2023–2024)
- Further development of IAM for dmTECH (2023–2024)
- Realignment of test infrastructure and test management for dmTECH/IAM (2023–2024)
- Further development of IAM for 28,000 employees (project for dmTECH, Germany, 2023)
- Completion of the Lotus Notes replacement for R-IT customers Raiffeisen Landesbank and bank branches (2023)
- Completion of the IAM implementation for >50.000 employees (2022)
- Replacement of an in-house remote access solution with PAM/cyberark (2022)
- Implementation of IAM for <1.000 employees (project for card complete, Austria, 2022)
Zoran J.
Last position:
Technical Writer – Implementation of the BNPP IT PROD SEC Service Catalog at BNP Paribas Germany
Design, authorship and finalization of the IT PROD SEC service catalog with eight standardized security services (S-ID001–S-ID008).
Development of consistent service components & deliverables, RACI assignments and SLA and KPI definitions for each service.
Integration of BaFin document requirements under DORA into the service descriptions.
Coordination with IT, compliance, risk and operations teams to validate all service descriptions.
Specifically for governance & monitoring: definition of governance cadence, evidence delivery processes, audit support and definition of measurable KPIs and measurement methods.
Ensuring that all services are standardized, measurable and documented in an audit-proof manner.
Result: Approved service catalog with eight services as a binding basis for delivery, governance and audits; transparent SLAs/KPIs for each service and DORA/BAIT/MaRisk-compliant documentation with clear responsibilities and evidence trails.
Technologies and tools: Confluence, Jira, ServiceNow, Microsoft PowerPoint, Microsoft Visio, Office 365.
Alexander V.
Last position:
Senior Cloud & Kubernetes Architect at A.S.E. | Business Solutions for Construction
- Architected and deployed a highly available, multi-tenant Kubernetes platform on Google Kubernetes Engine (GKE) for business-critical microservices.
- Designed and implemented a comprehensive Infrastructure-as-Code strategy using Terraform for managing GKE clusters, networking (VPCs, Subnets), and IAM policies.
- Engineered optimized storage solutions for stateful workloads (MongoDB) using GKE PersistentVolumes, enhancing performance and data resiliency.
- Established a full-stack observability framework using Google Cloud Monitoring, Logging, Prometheus, and Grafana.
Christian P.
Last position:
Migration Lead for Accounting & Year-End Closing Tests at Raiffeisenverband Salzburg
- Project and test management for the accounting migration
- Coordination of resources
- Planning, creation and alignment of scenarios with functional experts and IT product owners
- Responsibility for accounting KPIs of the migration cockpit
- System environment: Jira, XRay, Confluence
Michael L.
Last position:
Software Developer at ProjektPro GmbH
- Optimized the performance of a large FileMaker solution
- Optimized performance in cloud and on-premise solutions
- Optimized the REST API
- Bug fixing and documentation
- Part of a large Scrum team
René Z.
Last position:
DevSecOps & Kubernetes Engineer (Freelance) at mgm technology partners GmbH
Development of a Custom Jenkins Shared Library (Groovy)
Integration of security checks in CI/CD pipeline (Shift-Left Approach)
Automated vulnerability scanning and remediation workflows
GitOps-based deployments with ArgoCD
Semantic versioning automation with Git integration
Container lifecycle management (Build/Scan/Tag/Push)
ArgoCD webhook integration for event-driven deployments
Complete cluster automation with Ansible
Bare-metal Kubernetes installation from scratch
High-availability control plane setup
Unified deployment system for multi-application orchestration
Configuration management according to NIST SP 800-128
Host security: Linux hardening, SELinux/AppArmor
Network security: NetworkPolicies, micro-segmentation
Application security: RBAC, Pod Security Standards
Data security: Encryption at rest and in transit
Defense-in-depth principles
Certificate management with cert-manager
Secrets management with External Secrets Operator connected to Vault
Infrastructure monitoring with Checkmk
Prometheus/Grafana monitoring stack
Security event detection and logging
Automated health checks and incident response procedures
MetalLB load balancing for bare-metal
Nginx ingress controller with SSL passthrough
NetworkPolicies for security zones
Rook-Ceph distributed storage, CNI configuration (Weave Net)
Container & orchestration: Kubernetes (bare-metal), Docker, Helm
CI/CD & GitOps: Jenkins (Custom Shared Library), ArgoCD, Groovy
Automation: Ansible, Bash, Python
Security: nftables, RBAC, NetworkPolicies, cert-manager, Vault, Sealed Secrets
Monitoring: Checkmk, Prometheus, Grafana
Storage & networking: Rook-Ceph, MetalLB, Nginx Ingress, Calico
Collaboration: Jira, Confluence
OS: Debian, Ubuntu
Joseph W.
Last position:
Freelancer Cloud / Solution Architect (AWS) at A1 Bank
- I am responsible for providing solution architecture and technical assistance for a migration initiative aimed at transitioning to a new core banking system.
- The project involves replacing in-house development with a commercially available off-the-shelf core banking system operated as SaaS on AWS.
- Duties encompass solution design, technical coordination, supporting development teams, and providing IT support and troubleshooting.
- Managing over 10 global vendors and partners is crucial to project success.
- Technologies: VMWare ESXi, AWS, EKS Kubernetes, Mastercard Payment Transaction Service, Avaloq, A1 Telekom Austria infrastructure, CheckPoint FW, F5, Site-to-Site VPNs, PingID, Futurae SDK, Airlock, UC4/Automic, Firebase, iOS/Android lifecycle management, AWS IAM, AWS AppStream, AWS S3, AWS Transfer Family, QlikView, OpenAPI.
Sascha L.
Last position:
CEO at SEComply
- Founder & creator of a cutting-edge Governance, Risk & Compliance SaaS solution.
- Developing and executing business development strategies to identify new opportunities and expand market presence.
- Providing information security consulting services.
- Specializing in governance, risk, and compliance (GRC) topics such as risk management, ISO 27005, ISO 27001, NIS 2, DORA, PCI DSS, EU-GDPR, and more.
- Past projects:
- Kyndryl Austria GmbH: delivered IAM blueprint, conducted risk assessments, developed transformation strategy and roadmap for client projects, and provided support in pre-sales activities to align solutions with client needs.
- Cashpoint Sportwetten GmbH: conducted ISO 27001:2022 gap analysis, enhanced ISMS processes, updated security training, aligned with ISO 27001:2022 standards, and improved vulnerability management practices through regular assessments and remediation planning.
- Hornbach Baumarkt AG: supported the CISO in achieving ISO 27001 compliance, implementing a secure software development lifecycle (SDLC), strengthening vulnerability management practices, and enhancing risk management frameworks.
- MHP Management- und IT-Beratung GmbH: created and reviewed security concepts aligned with ISO 27001 standards.
- Stromnetz Berlin GmbH: developed a comprehensive security concept based on ISO 27001 requirements.
- dmTech GmbH: conducted IT security training for employees, fostering awareness and adherence to security best practices.
- Finanz Informatik GmbH: managed PCI DSS-related tasks, including compliance assessments and control implementations.
- TIPS Messtechnik GmbH: conducted NIS2 gap analysis, developed a comprehensive compliance roadmap, and provided supportive actions to address identified gaps and ensure alignment with regulatory requirements.
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Statistics of experts using Identity and Access Management
Aggregated from the professional profiles of matched freelancers.
Experience
23 years
Position duration
2.9 years
Positions per freelancer
14
Top business areas
Information Technology, Product Development, Project Management
Top industries
Information Technology, Banking and Finance, Manufacturing
Certification focus areas
Information Technology, Project Management, Product Development
Bachelor's degree or higher
81%
Master's degree or higher
56%
Doctorate
25%
Certifications per freelancer
5
Most common languages
German, English, Spanish
Speak two or more languages
100%
Based on our profile pool as of 29 Oct 2026.
Daily rate distribution
The chart shows how the daily rates of experts in this technology in Austria are distributed, based on recent contracts on our platform. Each bar covers a rate range — its height shows the share of experts charging within that range.
Average rates of experts in Austria using Identity and Access Management
Rates are based on recent contracts and do not include FRATCH margin.
The average daily rate is the mean of all daily rates from recent contracts of comparable freelancers on our platform.
The median daily rate is the middle value of all daily rates — half of comparable freelancers charge less, half charge more. Unlike the average, it is barely affected by outliers.
Calculated based on our freelancers’ daily rates as of 29 Oct 2026. Actual rates may vary depending on seniority level, experience, skill specialization, project complexity, and engagement length.
Identity and Access Management experts industry focus
See which industries our matched freelancers work in most often — every figure is calculated live from the freelancers on FRATCH.
- Information Technology (95%)
- Banking and Finance (74%)
- Manufacturing (53%)
- Professional Services (53%)
- Government and Administration (37%)
- Retail (37%)
- Healthcare (32%)
- Telecommunication (32%)
Please note that freelancers can work across multiple industries, so percentages overlap.
About the technology
Identity foundations
Identity and Access Management (IAM) controls who can access which systems, under what conditions and for how long. It combines authentication, authorization, identity lifecycle management and access governance. Companies use IAM to protect applications, data, infrastructure and connected devices across cloud, on-premises and hybrid environments.
Core capabilities
IAM specialists turn access policies into reliable services and operating processes.
- Single sign-on and federation with SAML, OAuth 2.0 and OpenID Connect
- Multi-factor authentication, adaptive access and passwordless sign-in
- Joiner, mover and leaver workflows with automated provisioning
- Role-based and attribute-based access control
- Privileged access management and session oversight
Ecosystem and tooling
The ecosystem includes Microsoft Entra ID, formerly Azure Active Directory, Okta, Keycloak, Ping Identity and CyberArk. Strong professionals connect these services with Active Directory, LDAP, HR systems, IT service management tools and cloud providers. They also work with SCIM, APIs, Terraform, policy engines and audit logging.
When expertise matters
Companies often bring in freelance IAM professionals during migrations, acquisitions, cloud adoption or compliance-driven access reviews. They can also support identity modernization when legacy directories, inconsistent roles or manual approvals slow operations.
- Consolidating directories after a merger
- Replacing custom login flows with federation
- Designing privileged access controls
- Preparing access certifications and audit evidence
Delivery in Austria
IAM work spans regulated industries, public services, manufacturing, finance and growing technology companies in Austria. Remote collaboration works well for architecture, configuration and documentation, while workshops for process ownership or sensitive access reviews may benefit from on-site sessions. German and English communication can both matter, depending on stakeholders and documentation.
What strong professionals bring
The best specialists combine security judgment with practical delivery. They document access models, test failure and recovery paths, reduce excessive permissions and explain trade-offs to security, IT and business teams. Look for experience with identity migrations, integrations, automation, incident handling and measurable governance outcomes rather than tool familiarity alone.
Frequently asked questions
Everything clients usually want to know about Identity and Access Management, in one place.
Identity and Access Management controls digital identities and their access to applications, data, infrastructure and devices. Companies use IAM for sign-on, multi-factor authentication, automated provisioning, access reviews and privileged access control.
Identity and Access Management is the broader discipline, while single sign-on is one access experience within it and a directory stores identity records. IAM also covers authorization, lifecycle workflows, governance, auditing and risk-based decisions.
A strong Identity and Access Management specialist may work with Microsoft Entra ID, formerly Azure Active Directory, Okta, Keycloak, Ping Identity or CyberArk. Useful adjacent skills include Active Directory, LDAP, SAML, OAuth 2.0, OpenID Connect, SCIM, Terraform and cloud security.
The right level depends on the scope, risk and number of integrations. A Identity and Access Management professional handling a directory migration or privileged access design should be able to show comparable delivery, strong documentation and experience with testing and rollback planning.
Much of Identity and Access Management work can be completed remotely, including architecture, configuration, automation and documentation. On-site workshops may help when teams must agree on ownership, sensitive access processes or changes to operational procedures.
Before engaging an Identity and Access Management specialist, document the current identity sources, target applications, user groups, access risks and desired outcomes. Clarify whether the assignment covers design, implementation, migration, governance or ongoing operations.
A capable Identity and Access Management professional can explain access decisions in business terms and show how controls were tested. Assess their approach to least privilege, failure recovery, audit trails, automation, stakeholder communication and secure handling of credentials.
Identity and Access Management is valuable wherever people, partners or machines need controlled access to sensitive systems. It is especially important in finance, healthcare, public services, manufacturing and technology, including organizations operating across Austria and hybrid cloud environments.
The average hourly rate of freelancers in Austria who have used Identity and Access Management in their recent projects is 115 €, which corresponds to a daily rate of about 924 € based on an 8-hour working day.
Of the freelancers in Austria who have used Identity and Access Management in their recent projects, 81% hold at least a Bachelor's degree, 56% hold at least a Master's degree, and 25% hold a doctorate.
On average, freelancers in Austria who have used Identity and Access Management in their recent projects have 23 years of professional experience, with a single engagement typically lasting around 2.9 years.
The most common languages among freelancers in Austria who have used Identity and Access Management in their recent projects are German (100%), English (100%), and Spanish (16%).
The most common industries among freelancers in Austria who have used Identity and Access Management in their recent projects are Information Technology (95%), Banking and Finance (74%), and Manufacturing (53%).
The most common business areas among freelancers in Austria who have used Identity and Access Management in their recent projects are Information Technology (100%), Product Development (84%), and Project Management (84%).
Main locations of FRATCH Experts, who have recently used Identity and Access Management
Our freelancers and interim experts are at home across the DACH region — available on-site in the major business hubs or fully remote. Choose a location to discover matched specialists, local market insights and up-to-date availability.
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