IAM Security Architect - Temp

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• Please note additional position details below:
• This is a Temp-To-Hire, W-2 position. We are not able to do 1099 or C2C.
• It is a fully remote role that will need to be based in the U.S.
• You must meet our U.S. Eligibility requirements for work authorization as noted under "Additional Information" at the bottom of the job description.

IAM Architect will serve as a key technical resource in our Global Cyber and Information Security (GCIS) organization. Responsible for defining an identity and access management methodology and standard that is aligned to the most current, emerging, secure and verified identity access practices and tooling. Ensuring recommendations enable the required level of protection for all internal and external users providing a zero trust methodology enabled through a globally consistent experience.

Work closely with other Information Security colleagues, IT & Infrastructure organization and Business teams globally to provide guidance for viable identity management solutions and adoptable standards.

• Define and create Identity Access Management architectural standards, models, design patterns and technical specification documents.
• Assess, monitor and recommend improvements to global identity solutions to ensure and improve upon state of the art secure identity access and user identity repository protocols, tighten access management controls and balance costs associated with enabling secure customer and internal identity access.
• Work closely with the security engineering team and assist in securely configuring patterns to enable zero trust and consistent verification across the global AJG domain product landscape.
• Oversee and consult with project teams in business units to ensure adherence to security design patterns, protocols, best practices, authorizations and SLAs for identity and access procedures.
• Designs and collaborates on solutions that balance business requirements with identity management security requirements ensuring the business process aligns to the recommended security services.
• Proactively identifies technical and architectural risks of identity management services or solutions maintaining or managing users, commenting and/or providing safer identity management alternatives and presenting them for approval.
• Participate in security technology evaluations, proof of concept testing and provide in-depth identity management analysis of the proposed solution including enhanced recommendations for PAM services.
• Collaborate and partner with key GCIS IAM stakeholders to ensure alignment with the overall intended identity access management strategy, controls and design.
• Partner with architects and engineers within infrastructure, network, application and business teams to ensure that identity solutions (custom or SaaS, internal or customer)…