Director, Identity & Access Management

The Director for Identity & Access Management (IAM) helps to lead and scale a team of experienced engineers, developers and analysts in the Identity and Access Management, Governance and Administration space. This is a senior leadership role accountable for the strategic direction and governance of the IAM program across the organization. This role directs the planning, design, development, implementation, deployment and operations of the overall IAM teams. The Director is responsible for managing the operations and performance of the Cyber Security Identity Management Developers, Engineers and User Provisioning Analysts in accordance with access requests and change management processes. This includes accountability for identity management processes, access system information, and initiatives to ensure normal service operations are restored as quickly as possible with minimal disruption to the business should provisioning services are lost. The Director is accountable for leading staff in the administration and use of the Identity management tools to create, change, terminate user accounts for Systems. The Director is responsible for detailed reporting, KPIs and monitoring staff productivity. This position will work closely with the Cybersecurity team leadership to improve and maintain the overall security program and ensure compliance with the Cybersecurity policies of the organization. The Director will work with the Security teams to assist in any compliance or forensic investigations. This position is full-time remote. The Director of Identity and Access Management (IAM) position is responsible for advising security and technology leadership on ways to improve and maintain the IAM environment and IAM operations. This position develops strategy for the following areas: Access Governance, User Lifecycle Management, Identity, Directory Services, Single Sign-On, Private Key Infrastructure, and Secrets Management. This function oversees all identity related operations work. This position also serves as the subject matter expert in IAM product and solution development cloud-based identity and identity-centric Zero Trust architectures. - Develops and delivers the identity and access management initiatives and roadmaps. - Advises business IT application teams on access management technology issues and opportunities. - Builds, leads and has full management responsibility for the performance and development of a team of experienced platform security engineers. - Owns and drives IAM strategy to span legacy environments as well as newly built public cloud environment(s) to include all technology decisions and associated budget. - Provides coaching guidance and direction on IAM projects ensuring overall fit with architecture direction. - Acts as the fully accountable party for all IAM-related services including but not limited to Identity Governance, IdM native Active Directory and Oracle Unified Directory, Privileged Access Management, Private Key Infrastructure, SSO, MFA, and IAM Operations. - Serves as the Subject Matter Expert on IAM authorization platform configurations. - Develops strategies for Identity and Access Management (IAM) PAM Directory Services and enhanced authentication platform. - Drives initiatives to transform IAM provisioning and lifecycle management leveraging self-service and automation capabilities to enable a frictionless user experience. - Evolves the strategy and operating model for privileged access management (PAM) governance and technology solutions. - Provides oversight over all regular IAM operations and ensures the department provides exceptional service and that SLAs are met or exceeded. - Establishes performance metrics and leverage metrics to drive control and process improvements. Incidental Functions Prepare and lead presentations as requested. Monitor program pro