A modern IAM organization is essential to the success of Northwestern Mutual, our employees, field force and clients. We are looking for an experienced leader to take on an exciting and challenging role of Senior Director, Identity and Access Management (IAM) The ideal candidate will work closely with stakeholders across the enterprise, relentlessly pursuing a secure and modern organization while positioning IAM to be a business enabler to the enterprise. 

This leadership role has high visibility across the organization and requires strategic engagement with many technology, risk, and business leaders. This individual will have a high degree of influence and partner closely stakeholders across the enterprise. This position is one of influence, impact, and transformation. It is also about recruitment, talent development, engineering excellence, and well-managed operations. This role requires a leader, capable of blending a bold vision with an ability to execute. They must win and sustain organizational support and be a great people leader that motivates and excites the team around their vision.

Key Responsibilities:

• Provides strategic direction for, technical leadership of, and oversight of the engineering and operations teams, and related vendors, tools and processes for enterprise IAM, such as:
  • Authentication
  • Authorization and identity lifecycle management / identity governance and administration of directory services
  • Privileged access management and vaulting
  • Cloud IAM design and management
  • Client \ Field Identity Management and authentication
• Provides strong technical leadership to guide teams on the delivery of key program deliverables, while driving well-managed operations for long term program sustainability.
• Aggressively and relentlessly identifies areas of opportunities for reduction of technical debt, and acceleration of process and technology automation.
• Identifies areas of process improvements and executes on remediation.
• Partners with stakeholders in lines of business across Cybersecurity, Architecture, Tech and the business to understand business needs, desired business outcomes, provide education and position IAM as a critical business enabler.
• Develops, maintains and communicates IAM roadmaps.
• Supports negotiations on scope of work as well as manage work with outside vendors.
• Manage financial responsibility for ongoing costs to the organization.

Qualifications:

The ideal candidate will have a track record of success creating and running multiple software platforms and services at a large scale. They will also have a proven ability to operate effectively in a complex, evolving, and regulated environment. They will have a demonstrated ability to develop a vision, drive and manage the execution of that vision, and deliver top-tier results. This executive should have excellent leadership and communication skills and possess the confidence and poise to influence the executive leadership as well as inspire the IAM organization to drive efficiency and maturity.

• Minimum of 2 years' experience in developing strategies.
• Minimum of 10 years' experience in delivering and overseeing technical solutions and programs.
• Minimum of 5 years' experience in managing personnel.
• Extensive software engineering delivery experience in forward-leaning technology organizations
• Professionally mature, confident executive who is comfortable and effective influencing at all levels of the organization
• Strong knowledge of cloud infrastructure providers and operating technology at scale within them
• Experience developing or running tools for enterprise IAM at a large organization
• Deep understanding of technology considerations as well as the ability to communicate effectively with business leaders, influencing enterprise strategy. Skilled in developing these relationships and knowing where and how to draw compromises
• Proven experience driving/disrupting the business through technology innovation
• Proven ability to continuously assess new technologies and make effective decisions in an ever-changing technology landscape

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$133,140.00

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Northwestern Mutual pays on a geographic-specific salary structure and placement in the salary range for this position will be determined by a number of factors including the skills, education, training, credentials and experience of the candidate; the scope, complexity as well as the cost of labor in the market; and other conditions of employment. At Northwestern Mutual, it is not typical for an individual to be hired at or near the top of the range for their role and compensation decisions are dependent on the facts and circumstances of each case. Please note that the salary range listed in the posting is the standard pay structure. Positions in certain locations (such as California) may provide an increase on the standard pay structure based on the location. Please click here for additional information relating to location-based pay structures.

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