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Are you interested in building capabilities that enable the organization with innovation speed agility scalability and efficiency The Identity & Access Management team in Information Security Office (ISO) takes great pride in our culture where information security is built into our DNA! When you join our organization at Prudential youll unlock an exciting and impactful career all while growing your skills and advancing your profession at one of the worlds leading financial services institutions.

Your Team & Role
As Lead Database & Mainframe Security in the Identity & Access Management team you will partner with product owners tech leads designers engineers and delivery professionals to improve Prudentials Identity Management platform. An important function is to ensure the Identity Management platform on the mainframe and access controls for databases remains in compliance with the Information Security Standards and processes. You will bring excellent problem solving communication and teamwork skills along with agile ways of working strong business insight an inclusive leadership attitude and a continuous learning focus to all that you do.

Here is What You Can Expect on a Typical Day
Mentor and codify: Work with team members to review JCL RACF resource design and dataset protections; convert tribal knowledge into runbooks with prechecks rollback steps and post deployment verification.
Reduce unplanned work: Triage requests (ServiceNow/ISAMS) drive root cause fixes (e.g. account ownership hygiene exception profile cleanup) and feed learnings back into automation to lower ticket volume.
Automate the repetitive: Build or refine REXX/Ansible playbooks that standardize RACF certificate tasks profile updates and evidence generation.
Advance ISO IAM alignment: Translate enterprise IAM standards into concrete controls and monitoring. Document gaps; propose remediation steps (recertification runs ownership cleanups exception reviews).
Partner with Database/platform teams to implement and validate role based access for DB2 on z/OS (and other strategic on-prem or Cloud databases) review privileged roles use appropriate tools to monitor identity and access compliance.
Operate with precision: Execute certificate renewals or migration integrated workflow; validate application connectivity (CICS regions MQ channels DB2 subsystems) and capture audit ready evidence.
When change windows arise: Participate in well scripted changesbut continuously shrink manual effort and shorten windows through automation better staging and reusable validation scripts.
Share knowledge: Lead short tech huddles to demonstrate a new playbook PKI improvement or monitoring enhancementhighlighting transferable security skills that apply across platforms (PKI/TLS IAM lifecycle zero trust controls automation at scale).

The Skills & Expertise You Bring
Bachelor of Computer Science or experience in identity security related field
Strong expertise with RACF (or CA Top Secret) at system level identity lifecycle resource protection and global controls
PKI on z/OS: Expertise creating importing and managing certificates keyrings CAs and trust chains; operational understanding of cert usage across DB2 CICS MQ TN3270 LDAP z/OSMF.
Comfortable with TSO/ISPF JCL SMF JES; working knowledge of SMP/E and z/OSMF workflows for controlled changes.
Proven scripting with REXX (and/or Ansible using z/OS collections); ability to turn runbooks into repeatable automated workflows (pre checks execution validation rollback).
Comfortable building small utilities (e.g. SMF parsers RACF report generators) to standardize evidence and reduce manual toil.
Experience designing or operating access controls for DB2 or similar RDBMS (e.g. Oracle SQL Server PostgreSQL) including role/privilege modeling service account governance and comfort collaborating with DBA/infra teams on least privilege enforcement.
Practical knowledge of ISO IAM (or equivalent) and the skill to map standards to z/OS controls and monitoring.
Hands on experience with access hygiene: dormant ID remediation group/ownership transitions at scale and recertification cycles; familiarity with Vanguard (or equivalent) reporting.
Awareness of privileged operations across CA PAM/AutoSys; ability to streamline password update/reset workflows and secure tables.
Strong grasp of TLS/PKI cryptography basics and mainframe authentication paths; able to detect and mitigate risks arising from certificate policy or ownership misconfigurations.
Change management discipline - designs safe testable changes; documents guardrails; produces reliable audit grade evidence.
Communicates clearly with nonmainframe stakeholders framing improvements in transferable security concepts (IAM lifecycle least privilege PKI automation zero trust)
Mindset that thrives here:
You enjoy making complex critical simpler and safer through automation.
You see mainframe as a platform where security engineering excellence directly prevents outages and incidents improves security posture and where the skills you build are relevant everywhere in the information security area.

Youll Love Working Here Because You Can
Join a team and culture where your voice matters; where every day your work transforms our experiences to make lives better. As you put your skills to use well help you make an even bigger impact with learning experiences that can grow your technical AND leadership capabilities. Youll be surprised by what this rock-solid organization has in store for you.

What we offer you:

• Market competitive base salaries with a yearly bonus potential at every level.

• Medical dental vision life insurance disability insurance Paid Time Off (PTO) and leave of absences such as parental and military leave.

• 401(k) plan with company match (up to 4%).

• Company-funded pension plan.

• Wellness Programs including up to $1600 a year for reimbursement of items purchased to support personal wellbeing needs.

• Work/Life Resources to help support topics such as parenting housing senior care finances pets legal matters education emotional and mental health and career development.

• Education Benefit to help finance traditional college enrollment toward obtaining an approved degree and many accredited certificate programs.

• Employee Stock Purchase Plan: Shares can be purchased at 85% of the lower of two prices (Beginning or End of the purchase period) after one year of service.

Eligibility to participate in a discretionary annual incentive program is subject to the rules governing the program whereby an award if any depends on various factors including without limitation individual and organizational performance. To find out more about our Total Rewards package visit Work Life Balance Prudential Careers. Some of the above benefits may not apply to part-time employees scheduled to work less than 20 hours per week.