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About The Hartford
The Hartford is a leading provider of property and casualty insurance, group benefits, and mutual funds, serving businesses and individuals across the United States. Industry: Insurance & Financial Services
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The Director, Identity and Access Management (IAM) Platforms provides senior leadership for the strategic design, implementation, and governance of enterprise identity solutions. This leader oversees the architecture, deployment, and operation of the Ping Identity platform suite, serving as the authority on authentication, authorization, and federation patterns. Key responsibilities include championing passwordless authentication, adaptive access, and Zero Trust security architectures while managing the end-to-end identity lifecycle. The role involves establishing standards for SAML, OIDC, OAuth2, and MFA across customer and partner ecosystems. Candidates must possess deep expertise in PingID, PingFederate, PingAccess, and PingDirectory, alongside experience with Active Directory, LDAP, and CI/CD pipelines. This position addresses the technical challenge of modernizing identity platforms and managing risk reporting within a complex, regulated insurance environment to ensure compliance with NIST and SOX frameworks while leading a global engineering team.
Lead the strategic design and execution of enterprise identity management systems.
Manage the architecture, deployment, and operation of the Ping Identity product suite.
Implement modern authentication methods including passwordless, adaptive access, and Zero Trust architectures.
Establish federation standards for SAML, OIDC, and OAuth2 to ensure seamless SSO and MFA.
Provide risk oversight and reporting on identity lifecycle trends and compliance with NIST and SOX frameworks.
Lead and develop a global team of technical IAM engineers and administrators.
Partner with cross-functional teams to align identity features with business and security roadmaps.
What we're looking for
Must have 10+ years of experience in information security, technology risk management, or IAM engineering domains.
Must have 5+ years of hands-on experience architecting and maintaining enterprise-scale Ping/ForgeRock Identity solutions.
Leadership experience is required.
Must possess deep technical expertise in SAML, OAuth 2.0, OpenID Connect (OIDC), and API security architectures.
Must have proven implementation experience leading large-scale modern IAM platform migrations in regulated financial services or insurance environments.
Must have strong working knowledge of application architectures, directory services, SDLC, DevOps practices, and CI/CD pipelines.
Must possess executive presence to communicate complex technical issues as actionable insights to senior leaders.
Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Information Security, or a related field (or equivalent experience) is required.
IAM
MS Entra ID
Active Directory
Okta
Auth0
Netwrix
SAML
OIDC
FIDO2
Windows Hello for Business
CoBIT
ITIL
ISO
NIST
Information Security
Directory Services