IAM Security Architect - Temp

Overview

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Introduction:
Welcome to Gallagher - a global leader in insurance, risk management, and consulting services. With a growing team of more than 52,000 professionals worldwide, Gallagher enables businesses, communities, and individuals to thrive. You can build a career across our brokerage, benefits and HR consulting, or corporate teams. Experience The Gallagher Way, a culture defined by shared values and excellence.

Overview:
Identity and Access Management (IAM) Security Architect. Gallagher helps businesses grow, communities thrive, and people prosper. We live a culture defined by The Gallagher Way, our shared values and guiding tenets. The IAM Architect will serve as a key technical resource in our Global Cyber and Information Security (GCIS) organization, defining IAM methodology and standards aligned to current, secure identity access practices and tooling.

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Position Summary: IAM Architect will serve as a key technical resource in GCIS. Define identity and access management methodology and standards aligned to current secure identity access practices and tooling. Enable zero trust with a globally consistent experience. Collaborate with Information Security, IT & Infrastructure, and business teams to provide guidance on viable identity management solutions and adoptable standards.

Key Responsibilities:

• Define and create Identity Access Management architectural standards, models, design patterns, and technical specification documents.
• Assess, monitor, and improve global identity solutions to ensure secure identity access and user identity repositories; tighten access controls and balance costs.
• Collaborate with security engineering to securely configure patterns that enable zero trust and consistent verification across the global domain product landscape.
• Oversee and consult with project teams to ensure adherence to security design patterns, protocols, authorizations, and SLAs for identity and access procedures.
• Design and collaborate on solutions balancing business requirements with identity management security requirements.
• Identify technical risks in identity management services/solutions and propose safer alternatives for approval.
• Participate in security technology evaluations, PoC testing, and provide in-depth IAM analysis including PAM considerations.
• Coordinate with GCIS IAM stakeholders to align with overall IAM strategy, controls, and design.
• Partner with architects and engineers across infrastructure, network, application, and business teams to ensure IAM solutions are developed and managed per GCIS policies.
• Assist security compliance partners with risk mitigation and governance related to IAM.
• Support building IAM architectural designs and standard services for SaaS and custom applications.
• Provide periodic security architecture reviews of IAM patterns and configurations.
• Participate on an IAM governance board for future state IAM, CIAM, and Central Authorization.

Required:

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or related field
• Minimum 3+ years of cybersecurity experience
• Minimum 1+ years of experience reviewing solution architectures for IAM and providing feedback to app and infrastructure teams
• Experience reviewing IAM services, methodologies, and patterns for custom and SaaS solutions
• 1+ years of experience with at least one IAM standard toolset (PING, Forge Rock, OKTA)
• Strong knowledge of complex IAM offerings involving MFA, biometrics, workflows, and processes for on-prem and cloud user support
• Hands-on experience with IAM licenses and negotiating with identity service providers for cost-effective support
• Experience in regulated and globally distributed environments with various access points (on-prem, laptops, mobile)
• Knowledge of enterprise architecture frameworks such as TOGAF
• Knowledge of security standards frameworks (NIST CSF, ISO 27001, CSA CCM, PCI-DSS, GDPR)

Preferred:

• At least one information security certification (CISSP, CCSP, AWS Solutions Architect, Azure…