Technical Specialist 4/TS4 (40504)

About the role

This position is a lead role within a project team charted to review current Identity and Access Management practices within a large and complex state government environment, gather business requirements for preferred provisioning and de-provisioning capabilities, perform a gap analysis of capabilities, assist in documenting planned deliverables to meet the identified business requirements, document recommendations for tools to meet the identified business objectives, document the proposed Identity and Access Management architecture as it relates to tools and integration into the states environment.

As an Identity & Access Management Architect, you will be a member of the Information Security team reporting to the agencies Chief Privacy Officer. This role is an advanced level architect in the Information Security Architecture team.

This position requires that you work with minimal supervision as a liaison between technical staff and business unit subject matter experts to develop vision, roadmap, architecture and business cases for ongoing projects under the Information Security Architecture pillar of the Office of Information Services.

As such this position would be responsible for proposing and documenting a security architecture to meet the vision and business requirements of the organization. Additional responsibilities include:

• Influence security posture by evaluating business strategies and requirements; researching information security standards and advising business & technology partners.
• Partner with Enterprise Architecture working groups to develop and approve reference architectures and strategies.
• Conduct industry and market research and maintain a working knowledge of technologies and emerging trends in the Identity Management discipline.
• Oversee development and life-cycle management of the services related to Identity Governance & Administration services (e.g. demand management, roadmap development, technical design, architecture, SLA definition and control, oversight for roll-out to end user, optimization, and innovation).
• Future state planning. Required Skills
• Bachelor’s degree with a minimum of 8 years of information security or information technology experience or High school diploma or GED with a minimum of 12 years of information security or information technology experience
• 4 years’ experience in a lead role of a large scale complex Identity Management implementation involving Microsoft FIM.

4 Years of experience in the following Areas

• Experience developing and running multiyear, complex technology initiatives and programs in a large enterprise environment.
• Exceptional communication and interfacing skills with technical and non-technical audiences.
• Track record of garnering executive level sponsorship and support for large scale technology programs.
• Proven ability to influence people across the enterprise to adopt changes to the current security and technical environment to optimize functionality, efficiency, and availability.
• Familiarity with compliance regulations and IT and IS frameworks and standards.
• Proven consulting and relationship management skills and the ability to leverage key working relationships with business units, vendors, and IT staff.
• A proven ability to articulate recommendations effectively to customers, vendors and management with varying levels of technical/security knowledge.
• Able to work independently and as a member of a high performing team.
• Ability to manage projects using appropriate tools and communication methods.
• Ability to manage multiple tasks (many are complex) simultaneously and to bring activities to closure.
• Ability to analyze and develop security and technology control solutions from an end-to-end perspective (across platforms, application, data and networks).
• Expert knowledge of federated identity systems, directory services, role-based access control, multi-factor authentication, and SSO.
• Knowledge of standards (e.g. SAML, OAUTH, NTLM, LDAP, Kerberos, PKI, etc.).
• Strong worker knowledge of MicroSoft Active Directory and FIM.

Qualifications

• 5+ years of relevant work experience in IDM/IAM/IGA areas.
• One or more industry recognized technical or security certifications (CISSP, CISM, CISA, etc.).
• Working experience with NIST information security controls and FIPS standards.
• Working experience with NetIQ

Interview Process: Straight Onsite interview, no phone/skype.

Additional Information

• "All your information will be kept confidential according to EEO guidelines".
• All candidates who are authorized to work in US are encouraged to apply.
• Candidates must clear the Background check prior to commencing the assignment.

Third Party Candidates

Email your candidate/s resume to joseph dot shelton at idealforce.com along with the following details: Rate, Current location and Availability.