Identity and Access Management Lead
Glocomms is partnering with a leading financial services firm to bring on a Identity and Access Management Lead to drive a large-scale identity modernization initiative.
Key Responsibilities
- Design and lead the migration strategy from legacy identity and access management capabilities to a modern federated identity platform.
- Remain hands-on by building proof-of-concept integrations, developing supporting automation, writing code, and configuring identity services.
- Lead technical evaluations of identity, access management, and governance solutions through practical testing in complex enterprise environments.
- Design secure authentication and authorization frameworks for applications, APIs, microservices, and machine identities using zero-trust principles.
- Partner with engineering, security, compliance, and business stakeholders to translate security and regulatory requirements into practical technical solutions.
- Define standards for identity integration and ensure seamless identity flows across internally developed and third-party systems.
- Serve as the primary architectural authority for identity modernization efforts, balancing security, scalability, reliability, and user experience.
Required Qualifications
- Deep expertise in Identity and Access Management (IAM) architecture and modern authentication protocols, including OIDC, OAuth 2.0, SAML, JWT, and related token-based frameworks.
- Experience designing and implementing enterprise identity platforms such as Okta, Microsoft Entra ID (Azure AD), Ping Identity, ForgeRock, or similar technologies.
- Strong software engineering or infrastructure engineering background with proficiency in Infrastructure as Code and at least one programming language such as Go or Python.
- Experience securing machine-to-machine authentication and managing non-human identities across cloud and distributed environments.
- Strong understanding of secrets management, identity federation, certificate-based authentication, and workload identity solutions.
- Proven experience modernizing legacy identity environments and leading complex migration initiatives.
- Strong stakeholder management skills with the ability to influence engineering, security, compliance, and business leaders.
- Advanced system design and architecture experience, including the ability to create and defend technical solutions for highly complex environments.
- Ability to navigate ambiguity and align identity architectures with security, governance, risk, and compliance requirements.
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