Senior Director, Identity and Access Management - Remote Opportunity

Senior Director, Identity and Access Management

This role will lead and develop the Identity and Access Management (IAM) vision and roadmap. In this role, you will hold responsibility for activation of IAM program management, governance, and technical teams to ensure alignment with strategy and vision. Working with the team to ensure IAM solutions are meeting security and business objectives and outcomes by establishing metrics. A successful leader in this role will continuously improve and innovate our IAM capabilities to drive value, enhance our employee experience and secure our digital assets.

Responsibilities:

• This position is responsible for directing and leading the enterprise-wide identity, access, directory, and authentication services.
• The Senior Director will manage the staff that supports automated and manual provision and deprovisioning of access to mission critical systems.
• The Senior Director considers topics such as future state planning, assisting with implementation and design of Identity Access Management technologies, automation of manual tasks, identity access governance support and implementation services, privilege access management support and identity life cycle management with respect to regulatory compliance and approved standards and policies.
• The Senior Director engages key business stakeholders and customers as it relates to all supported systems and applications to verify, validate, and audit system access.
• In addition, this person will be responsible for providing leadership, training, and mentoring to the Identity and Access Management Team. Acts as the expert resource for Identity and Access Management and handles complex issues.
• Leads Identity and Access Management (IAM) application architecture/designs, plans, controls, processes, standards, and policies and procedures to ensure alignment with standards and overall strategy.
• Advises superiors on user security controls effectiveness and recommends enhancements.
• Allocates appropriate resources to ensure that projects are completed within committed time and budget and are integrated with administrative and support protocols.
• Drives IAM road maps, priorities, planning, and budgeting.
• Helps develop user security requirements by working and communicating with stakeholders throughout the company to effectively drive application development and meet user needs and strategy requirements.
• Guides and directs the direction of the security provisioning processes and team.
• Manage several projects simultaneously and effectively prioritize work.
• Work with the leaders within the IAM organization to ensure they are gathering and analyzing data, reporting customer satisfaction levels, and ensuring achievement of SLA metrics and goals.

Required Job Qualifications:

• Successful candidates will be security evangelists who can translate security concepts into language that is meaningful to many audiences, including business and technical leaders and individual contributors.
• Candidates must be able to approach application security from the perspective of risk management and avoid purely academic thinking about software security.
• Must demonstrate the ability to influence decision-making processes at all levels of a large organization will be critical to success.
• S. with 10+ years minimum experience in Identity and Access Management
• The role will require the candidate to have a wide range of both technical and management skills.
• Experience with and understanding of Single Sign-on, Identity Management and Network Security tools, Awareness programs, and the Information Security industry
• Solid understanding of application security audit principles and best practices.
• In-depth knowledge of multifactor authentication (MFA) architectures, implementations and best practices
• Extensive knowledge of Identity Management technologies such as SailPoint and Okta
• Experience with Azure, and Microsoft Active Directory
• Experience planning and managing budgets and spend
• Solid understanding of network and underlying infrastructure security principles
• Strong written and verbal skills coupled with the ability to work with all levels of management
• Strong quantitative, analytical and problem solving skills
• Strong project management and problem/conflict resolution skills
• Effective prioritization and time management skills with the ability to handle multiple projects simultaneously

Behaviors

• Leader: Inspires teammates to follow them
• Innovative: Consistently introduces new ideas and demonstrates original thinking