Access Engineer Lucknow (India)

Role Type: Application Engineering | IT Compliance | Access Governance | SOX / ITGC Position Summary: We are seeking experienced Application SME Engineers (IAM/Access Governance) to support enterprise application access reviews, compliance operations, and audit readiness activities across a diverse portfolio of business-critical applications. This role serves as the technical liaison between Application Owners, Audit, Risk Management, and Security teams. The Application SME Engineer will be responsible for validating user access, supporting quarterly and annual access reviews, ensuring compliance with SOX and ITGC controls, investigating access-related issues, and maintaining high-quality audit evidence. The ideal candidate possesses a blend of application administration, security, compliance, data analysis, and troubleshooting experience, with the ability to work across multiple enterprise platforms, both commercial and custom-developed. Key Responsibilities: Access Reviews & Compliance Support Application Owners through Quarterly Access Reviews (QARs), User Access Reviews (UARs), and annual certification activities. Extract, validate, reconcile, and prepare user access and entitlement data across enterprise applications. Review access assignments, permissions, roles, and approval structures to ensure compliance with established policies and controls. Identify inappropriate access, orphaned accounts, segregation of duties (SoD) conflicts, and data discrepancies. Coordinate remediation activities with application administrators and business stakeholders. Audit & Controls Manage audit cycles from initiation through completion, including evidence collection, validation, submission, and auditor follow-up. Ensure audit artifacts are complete, accurate, and aligned with SOX, ITGC, and internal control requirements. Support Internal Audit, External Audit, Risk Management, and Compliance teams during testing and assessment activities. Document proced .