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Position Overview:
The Identity and Access Management (IAM) Director is responsible for leading a team of engineers to build, enhance, and deliver IAM products and services focused on access provisioning, deprovisioning, access reviews, authentication, identity management, privileged access and service account management, monitoring, and reporting. Candidate must be a strategic, thought leader, overseeing, and implementing industry standard best practices applicable to the Freddie Mac’s environment. This manager must oversee the development of security solutions that adhere to applicable policies and comply with information security requirements. IAM Director must recruit, lead, mentor, and develop a best-in-class technology team, providing opportunities for growth to ensure continuity of IAM’s leadership.
Responsibilities also include working with IT teams to consult and partner on solutions with appropriate access controls, along with managing control design patterns that enable IT asset owners’ adoption of IAM enterprise control solutions.
The candidate will also collaborate with key stakeholders to extend the IAM control solutions to technology assets while working with other subject matter experts and engineers. Some of the primary areas of responsibility of the IAM team that this manager must direct, and lead include:
Our Impact:
We design, build, enhance, and deliver IAM products and services focused on access provisioning, deprovisioning, access reviews, authentication, identity management, privileged access and service account management, monitoring, and reporting. We provide thought leadership, overseeing, and implementing industry standard best practices applicable to the Freddie Mac’s environment.
Your Impact:
As part of IAM solution architecture and engineering team, you should drive business outcomes through tech solutions, must understand the business objectives (intended outcomes) and must identify feasible solutions that will enable/further those outcomes.
Collaborate with Enterprise Architecture and Risk & Security groups to ensure new and existing solutions are aligned with enterprise standards.
Formulate and manage a business and resource plan for the team to ensure appropriate resources are aligned to support IAM strategic plans, goals, and objectives.
Partner with business and IT customers to drive product research, RFP/vendor interview from technical perspective and is responsible for communicating business cases for TAWG/ARB approvals.
Work with other development leads on design brainstorming and design review to ensure alignment with current authentication patterns, and standards.
Drive and adopt a culture driven by data - where key performance indicators are gathered from top to bottom and fed to automated tooling to improve system reliability and performance
Responsibilities:
Provide technical expertise automating processes related to IAM and developing control solution integrations.
Drive strong functional and privileged account as well as service account access management processes.
Build comprehensive, modern, automated IAM products and services while collaborating with vendors and internal teams.
Develop working relationship with IT engineering resources to drive solution features and architectures.
Identify inadequacies within the environment and construct solutions to address IAM shortfalls.
Develop and generate reporting metrics which drive continuous improvements in IAM controls.
Partner with Information Security (IS) and line of business (LOB) leadership to understand requirements, enterprise IT standards and other considerations that influence how IAM solutions and services should perform and operate.
Generate and maintain documentation for IAM control solutions configurations, operational support processes, business continuity plans and control procedures.
Review existing IAM services to ensure those solutions are optimized for the highest level of service and establish an ongoing practice to perform periodic reviews.
Interpret policies and standards with InfoSec, Risk and Compliance teams, ensuring policies and standards are properly followed by IAM control solutions.
Promote security policies, standards, and best practices across the organization.
Track, monitor and report IAM financial industry related environment threats, control solutions, regulatory changes, and technology updates.
Formulate and manage a business and resource plan for the team to ensure appropriate resources are aligned to support IAM strategic plans, goals, and objectives.
Establish, review and document performance feedback and coaching for direct reports while utilizing HR processes for underperforming and overachieving resources.
Qualifications:
Bachelor’s degree in computer science, Information Technology, or related field or equivalent work experience
Minimum 10 years’ experience with developing and implementing identity and access management tools and solutions.
Minimum 8 years’ experience managing and developing strong information security and/or technology teams.
Understanding of IAM relevant technical solutions (such as SailPoint, MFA-Ping, Privileged Access Management: CyberArk). Fine-grained authentication policy enforcement and standardization via PlainID.
Demonstrated experience with infrastructure technologies including Cloud, Lightweight Directory Access Protocol (LDAP), Security Assertion Markup Language (SAML), and MFA/SSO.
Ability to think strategically and communicate effectively at the most senior levels of the company to communicate the value and benefit of IAM solutions.
Possess strong knowledge of industry best practices, technology, and evolving threats to enhance defenses for Freddie Mac’s information systems and resources. Advises management on security protocols and incidents. Mentors and trains to ensure team knowledge and effectiveness.
3-5+ years of troubleshooting and investigating complex issues within a highly regulated and secure environment.
Specific experience with NIST, PCI, or other information security related framework.
Ability to convey technical information to all groups and individuals concisely and clearly both verbally and in writing to individuals with limited technical experience.
CISSP, CISM, Cloud Security (CCSP, CCSK), or other information security related certification(s).
Customer service driven, quality focused, and collaborative with effective and persuasive written and oral communication skills.
Strong knowledge and experience with incident/problem management processes
Possess critical thinking and business risk analysis skills.
Strong communications skills, oral and written.
Ability to collaborate and interact productively with team members and key stakeholders.
Ability to communicate complex and technical issues to diverse audiences, orally and in writing, in an easily understood and actionable manner.
Ability to effectively influence and convince others to make appropriate changes in their priorities and behaviors for the benefit of the organization.
An understanding of business needs and commitment to delivering high-quality, prompt, and efficient service to the business.
Keys to Success:
Drive for Execution – Be accountable for strong individual performance
Partnership – Build trust and strong partnerships through your actions
Growth and Development – Know or learn what is needed to deliver results and successfully meet execution goals
Strong analytical skills with high attention to detail.
Strong organizational, time management, negotiation, and resource management skills.
Today, Freddie Mac makes home possible for one in four home borrowers and is one of the largest sources of financing for multifamily housing. Join our smart, creative and dedicated team and you’ll do important work for the housing finance system and make a difference in the lives of others.
We are an equal opportunity employer and value diversity and inclusion at our company. We do not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, color, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, age, marital status, veteran status, disability status or any other characteristic protected by applicable law.
Freddie Mac offers a comprehensive total rewards package to include competitive compensation and market-leading benefit programs. Information on these benefit programs is available on our Careers site.
This position has an annualized market-based salary range of $190,000 - $286,000 and is eligible to participate in the annual incentive program. The final salary offered will generally fall within this range and is dependent on various factors including but not limited to the responsibilities of the position, experience, skill set, internal pay equity and other relevant qualifications of the applicant.