Senior Lead – Access Management

About the role

Northern Trust’s Pune office seeks a Senior Lead – Access Management to lead the delivery, engineering, operations, governance, and continual improvement of enterprise Identity and Access Management (IAM) capabilities for workforce and client-facing environments. Day-to-day, the role oversees authentication, authorization, identity governance, access lifecycle management, privileged access integrations, and access control services while partnering with cybersecurity, engineering, architecture, infrastructure, application development, risk, audit, and business teams. The position is based in Pune, India.

What you’ll do

• Lead teams responsible for authentication, authorization, identity lifecycle management, access governance, and related IAM services.
• Oversee day-to-day operation, support, maintenance, and continual improvement of access management platforms and services.
• Ensure availability, resiliency, performance, and operational maturity of identity and access capabilities.
• Drive remediation of operational issues, technical debt, platform risks, and control deficiencies.
• Establish and monitor service level objectives, operational metrics, and performance indicators.
• Lead engineering and operational support for workforce and client authentication capabilities.
• Support identity lifecycle processes including joiner, mover, leaver, provisioning, deprovisioning, certification, and entitlement governance.
• Ensure secure onboarding and integration of applications with enterprise access management services.

What you’ll bring

• 7+ years of experience in Identity and Access Management, Cybersecurity Engineering, Security Operations, or related technology disciplines.
• 3+ years of leadership experience managing engineering, delivery, governance, or operational teams.
• Experience with IAM technologies such as Okta, Entra ID, Ping, CyberArk, Saviynt, OAuth, OpenID Connect (OIDC), SAML, MFA, federation, and access governance platforms.
• Experience leading technology initiatives within regulated financial services or similarly regulated environments.
• Familiarity with NIST, FFIEC, ISO 27001, SOC, NYDFS, and related regulatory frameworks.
• Strong leadership, communication, stakeholder management, and delivery management skills.

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