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  • ID
    #17812152
  • Job type
    Permanent
  • Salary
    TBD
  • Source
    Discover
  • Date
    2021-07-16
  • Deadline
    2021-09-14
 
Permanent

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Discover. A brighter future.

With us, you'll do meaningful work from Day 1. Our collaborative culture is built on three core behaviors: We Play to Win, We Get Better Every Day & We Succeed Together. And we mean it - we want you to grow and make a difference at one of the world's leading digital banking and payments companies. We value what makes you unique so that you have an opportunity to shine.

Come build your future, while being the reason millions of people find a brighter financial future with Discover. Job Description As an Identity and Access Management Security Architect, you will be part of the Cybersecurity Architecture Team focused on helping design, implement and mature innovative and cutting edge security capabilities. The Cybersecurity Architecture Team champions secure by design principles into our initiatives, provides hands on technical leadership for security domains, assists with defining vision and execution of strategy and is expected to help solve wide range of security challenges. The Cybersecurity Architecture Team is part of highly collaborative Cybersecurity program and an engineering culture driven technology organization.

This is an excellent opportunity for someone who is a self-starter, strong proponent of building in user experience in IAM designs, results oriented, loves to solve problems, and loves to enable secure business practices.

Responsibilities:
  • Be integral in ensuring access controls are designed and integrated into technology services, aligning business needs with technology and doing so in a manner which ensures security is built-in
  • Identify use cases for technical capabilities, lead and conduct hands-on evaluations and develop value proposition for new IAM products and services
  • Strive to be subject matter expert in IAM domain and the technologies/products used to secure hybrid-cloud systems and applications
  • Be strong proponent and practitioner of automation and secure infrastructure as code practices.
  • Work closely with Cybersecurity Product leadership, Engineers, and consumers of IAM services to identity risks, define and design tactical and strategic risk mitigation plans and prioritize execution of these accordingly
  • Partners with Cybersecurity, Enterprise, Technical and Application Architects to champion secure by design principles and help deliver secure and reliable solutions and is relentless in challenging status-quo and modernizing our IAM practices, platforms and services
  • Build current state and future state reference architectures, solution patterns, security product roadmaps, capability maturity models and other best practice artifacts
  • Acts as the principal advisor to upper management in Cybersecurity matters, and protection, detection and threat prevention capabilities. Creates Cybersecurity architecture strategy in alignment with business and technology objectives.
  • Provides oversight and technical leadership across all Cybersecurity functional domains to ensure confidentiality, integrity, and availability of all systems. Articulate cybersecurity architecture vision, security strategies and risk implications to key stakeholders to guide leadership decision-making
  • Researches, designs and integrates new cybersecurity solutions, and determine scope, legal and criticality impact in the environment
  • Validates and certifies current and future state architectural models to assess potential impact across all enterprise systems.
  • Works closely with management and the engineering groups to define the strategic direction of the department and promote resilient engineering and data analytics practices
  • Oversees Cybersecurity engineering projects, initiatives and analytics to ensure complete and timely delivery of key department objectives .
  • Provides guidance and advocacy regarding project prioritization and technology investment direction for Cybersecurity.
  • Provides guidance and advocacy regarding project prioritization and technology investment direction for Cybersecurity.
  • Builds and maintains effective relationships with management, peers, project managers and internal customers.
  • Maintains in-depth knowledge of engineering next-gen designs, and security trends and threats. Prepares reports, technical presentation and analytics visualization for management decision-making. Resolves and remediates security issues and/or vulnerabilities. Ensure compliance to audit, regulatory and legal requirements.
  • Sets direction, organizes and enable collaboration across cross-functional departments. Provides strong leadership and direction to team members. Coaches and mentors other professional staff members.
Minimum Qualifications:
  • Bachelor's degree in Information Security , Information Technology or related
  • 8+ years of experience in information security or related field
  • In Lieu of Education, 10+ years of experience in information security or related field

Preferred Qualifications
  • Demonstrates expert knowledge of IAM concepts such as Authentication and Authorization, RBAC, Federation Services, Access Provisioning and Access Certification.
  • Proven experience in designing and engineering of multiple modern Identity and Access Management capabilities: Identity and Directory Services, Privileged Access Management, Identity Governance and Administration, Multi-Factor Authentication, Credential Management (Use of products such as OKTA, SailPoint IIQ, Azure AD, Hashicorp Vault, CyberArk, Radiant Logic)
  • Proven experience in designing and integrating platforms and applications using OIDC, SAML, FIDO (WebAuthN/CTAP) LDAP/HDAP, ADFS, PKI
  • Experience working in DevOps environment, automation first mindset, ability to leverage coding/scripting skills and working experience with APIs.
  • Demonstrated knowledge of infrastructure components such as Load balancers, Firewalls, Proxies
  • Possess knowledge of Zero Trust Identity Principles
  • Curious by nature, demonstrates ability to learn new skills, keeps pace with evolving threat landscape as well as new technology trends and practices
  • Has knowledge of IAM capabilities in AWS, Google Cloud Platform (a plus)
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The same way we treat our employees is how we treat all applicants - with respect. Discover Financial Services is an equal opportunity employer (EEO is the law) . We thrive on diversity & inclusion. You will be treated fairly throughout our recruiting process and without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability, or veteran status in consideration for a career at Discover.

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