Sr. Lead Data Protection and IAM - Wealth and Asset Management

About Northern Trust:

Northern Trust a Fortune 500 company is a globally recognized awardwinning financial institution that has been in continuous operation since 1889.

Northern Trust is proud to provide innovative financial services and guidance to the worlds most successful individuals families and institutions by remaining true to our enduring principles of service expertise and integrity. With more than 130 years of financial experience and over 22000 partners we serve the worlds most sophisticated clients using leading technology and exceptional service.

The role will ensure formulation and execution of strategic and tactical solutions related to 1st line of defense (1LOD) IAM practices. The role will also be responsible for working collaboratively with business unit (BU) partners to enable and execute identity governance policy standards and control adherence and serve as principal partner in strengthening and maintaining productive alliances with 2nd and 3rd line of defense challenge teams. This position will collaborate extensively with business technology risk and other corporate teams to establish and strengthen adoption of identity practices standards and controls. As an IAM leader the selected candidate will partner with IAM architecture engineering operations and program teams to ensure that identity governance and administration strategy and roadmaps are in alignment with other business needs and priorities.

This role is part of the Information Security organization aligning to Business Information Security Officer (BISO) for Wealth and Asset Management. This role will report to the BISO who reports to the Global Chief Information Security Officer (CISO). We operate within a complex landscape driven by client expectations and the diverse needs that comes with operating in countries across the globe.

The successfully candidate will work very closely with Business Unit (BU) counterparts. He/she will marry technical knowledge and experience in Information Security domains involving application security and security with business requirements for communicating with clients and other counterparties.

Job responsibilities:

• Identify and enable IAM solutions that meet BU and InfoSec enduser expectations relative to performance usability and security for IAM standards and procedures. Determine operational feasibility by evaluating analyzing problem definition requirements solution development and proposing solutions.
• Represent Information Security with BU stakeholders as a trusted advisor finding pragmatic and costeffective security solutions that efficiently support customer needs. Collaborate with Technology Info Sec Risk Enterprise Architecture and BU organizations as needed. Be familiar with BU leadership operations and priorities.
• Represent the IAM organizations identity lifecycle capabilities Privileged Access Management (PAM) Authentication etc to the business units as well as to technology risk and audit teams. Balance between strategic operational execution and development and execution of tactical InfoSec and business function activities
• Offer guidance best practices and support across businesses to identify assess control and reduce IAM risk. Drive awareness and understanding within BU of the technology risk and controls framework and challenges to compliance with it. Enforce IAM Tower standards and controls across NT whether applications and platforms are centrally or decentrally managed
• Aid in developing the solutionsand controls that meet system expectations relative to scalability performance fault tolerance usability and data integrity. Maintain specialist knowledge in assigned security processes governance systems and/or frameworks. May be responsible for performing BUlevel training of access management principles practices standards and controls. With BU respond to IAMrelated audit and regulatory inquiries in partnership with other IAM IT and Risk leadership teams.
• Review documentation processes or procedures and recommends where automation or improvements can be implemented. Lead risk reviews and assessments identifying threats communicating with BU and IAM teams and stakeholders to define risk treatment activities.
• Act as an InfoSec subject matter expert primarily focused on IAM and application security across the Banks core technology within platforms.

QUALIFICATIONS

• Preferably with 710 years Security Risk and/or Technology experience across a broad range of architectures. Broad understanding of identity and access management and knowledge in identity governance and administration. As an IAM subject area expert provides comprehensive indepth consulting and leadership to team and partners at a high technical level
• Strong aptitude to develop and maintain internal and external business relationships and to leverage those relationships in pursuit of daytoday goals and responsibilities.
• Excellent consultative skills as well as oral and written communication skills are required. Ability to clearly articulate and document security risks and requirements so that they are accurate auditable and understandable.
• Ability to operate independently and maintain indepth knowledge of business unit/function; accomplish engineering and organization mission by completing related results as needed.
• Able to influence decision making to identify and mitigate issues and risks across a wide range of stakeholders including senior BU leaders. Maintain positive and professional demeanor able to collaborate build and maintain effective relationship with others. Pragmatic and effectively balances risk and control requirements with commercial drivers.
• Knowledge of information security network management operating systems software development database systems and information technology concepts. Preferred technical qualifications such as CRISC CISM CISA CISSP. Familiarity with vended IAM solutions not required but strongly recommended

A College or University degree and/or relevant proven work experience is required

Working with Us:

As a Northern Trust partner greater achievements await. You will be part of a flexible and collaborative work culture in an organization where financial strength and stability is an asset that emboldens us to explore new ideas.

Movement within the organization is encouraged senior leaders are accessible and you can take pride in working for a company committed to assisting the communities we serve! Join a workplace with a greater purpose.

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