Overview
Job ID: E2403993
Job Description:
Role Summary/Purpose:
The VP, Cloud IAM Leader is a senior member of the IAM leadership team, and will be responsible for driving and executing the Identity & Access Management strategy specific to public cloud platforms within Synchrony. This highly visible role will work across organizational boundaries, as the owner of a critical function which is required for Synchrony’s journey to the cloud. The role will include leading and growing multiple teams of cloud IAM engineers to enable secure and scalable access to cloud infrastructure and services, while driving continuous improvement through mature automation and DevOps practices. This role requires a strong technical leader, with a strategic mindset for driving scalable architecture, processes, and operations to facilitate access in the cloud, while maintaining strong governance and control oversight within a highly-regulated financial enterprise.
*This role is not responsible for the management of traditional IAM services such as IDP, IGA, or PAM, however familiarity with these concepts and their integration into cloud service providers is helpful.
Our Way of Working
We’re proud to offer you choice and flexibility. At Synchrony, our way of working allows you to have the option to work from home, near one of our Hubs or come into one of our offices. Occasionally you may be required to commute to our nearest office for in person engagement activities such as business or team meetings, training and culture events.
Essential Responsibilities:
Develop and execute the Cloud IAM strategy for the firm applying technical knowledge, industry experience, expertise, and insights, with a primary focus on AWS.
Design simple, automated, and self-service IAM solutions for public cloud service provider platforms (AWS, Azure, GCP, Oracle, etc.) that adhere to regulatory requirements, industry best practices, current thinking, and overall strong security controls. Immediate need is AWS with other cloud platforms being added as business initiatives require.
Champion secure-by-design principles, supporting enterprise cloud architecture initiatives.
Drive CIEM maturity in collaboration with IGA, Identity Security, and Cloud Security teams.
Evaluate and optimize security capabilities, leveraging cloud-native and 3rd party security integrations.
Cross-functional collaboration with technical leaders, solution architects, engineers, security stakeholders, governance, and other subject matter experts to review and integrate requirements into solution designs.
Effectively translate complex technologies, designs, and ideas into simple concepts in order to reach a broad range of audience understanding and gain executive sponsorship for proposed solutions.
Drive the development of automation required to build, test, deploy, manage, or maintain solutions through DevOps pipeline processes.
Grow Cloud IAM engineering teams delivering IAM control processes, technologies, and oversight to Cloud access management.
Share insights and best practices while working with engineering teams to remove key blockers.
Collaborate with various groups and individuals to troubleshoot and resolve escalated production issues.
Provide deep subject matter expertise for AWS Identity & Access Management services, entities, configuration, and best practices.
Perform other duties and/or special projects as assigned.
Qualifications/Requirements:
Bachelor’s degree in Technology, Risk Management, or 12+ years equivalent work experience
Minimum 10 years in Information Security, Risk Management, and/or Information Technology
Demonstrable experience managing AWS IAM in a large enterprise.
Deep domain expertise in industry and corporate technology standards for Information Security
Results-driven with ability to manage a diverse team and multiple complex assignments, set and adjust priorities, and manage team assignments based on criticality, in a timely and professional manner
Ability to effectively communicate with all levels of the organization
Desired Characteristics:
Experience managing and scaling IAM within multi-cloud environments – AWS, Azure, and GCP
Knowledge of and experience implementing well-architected frameworks across one or more public clouds
Strong understanding of business processes in support of applications for financial industries
Strong knowledge of software development/deployment methodologies in web/mobile based environments
Experience managing leaders and large globally distributed teams
Strong knowledge of software security for web and mobile applications
Industry recognized certifications such as CISSP, CISA, CISM, GCIH, GREM, CSIRT, ACE, EnCE
Excellent skills in preparing and presenting strategies, recommendations, and value propositions to senior leadership teams.
Excellent writing and interpersonal skills
Strong judgment and decision-making skills
Grade/Level: 14
The salary range for this position is 170,000.00 – 290,000.00 USD Annual and is eligible for an annual bonus based on individual and company performance.