Identity, Authentication, Authorization & Governance; IAM) Sr. Security Specialist; Leadership

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The IAM Identity, Authentication, Authorization & Governance Senior Security Specialist sits within Global Information Security (GIS) and plays a highly visible role in shaping how human, machine, and service identities are governed across the enterprise. This role offers the opportunity to influence strategic security priorities, partner with senior stakeholders across technology, risk, compliance, and audit, and help strengthen how authentication and authorization controls evolve to support cloud and digital growth.

It is an excellent opportunity for an internal candidate looking to broaden their impact, build enterprise-wide relationships, and contribute to a critical and evolving security agenda.

• Establish IAM control requirements, governance measures, and escalation paths in partnership with risk and control organizations.
• Translate internal policy, regulatory, and audit requirements into practical, sustainable controls across enterprise platforms and processes.
• Drive remediation of identity risks and control gaps across business and technology organizations, escalating risk acceptance decisions as appropriate.
• Provide executive-level reporting and recommendations on identity risk, control health, adoption, exceptions, and remediation progress.
• Support audit readiness and sustainable issue closure through clear accountability, evidence, metrics, and ongoing control monitoring.

• Build trusted partnerships across GIS, Core Technology, Application Development, Risk, Compliance, Audit, and Third-Party Management.
• Advise and influence senior leaders on complex identity, technology, security, and risk matters, including strategic options and trade-offs.
• Drive cross-functional alignment, ownership, and adoption across teams operating at different speeds and maturity levels.
• Translate complex technical and risk concepts into clear executive recommendations, decisions, and measurable outcomes.

• Define enterprise business requirements, strategic direction, and standards for authentication, authorization, and identity governance.
• Establish governance for human, non-human, workload, service, and AI-agent identities, including ownership, lifecycle management, delegated authority, credential rotation and revocation, and human accountability.
• Set enterprise standards for API authentication and authorization, service-to-service access, token-based controls, and consistent secure identity patterns.
• Drive adoption of zero trust, least privilege, phishing-resistant and passwordless authentication, continuous access evaluation, and fine-grained, context-aware authorization.
• Advance policy-as-code, automated control enforcement, and identity threat detection to improve control consistency and reduce manual risk.
• Embed IAM requirements into application, platform, API, cloud, and AI solution design and development life cycles.
• Influence…