IAM Operations, Senior Lead, Cyber Sec Eng

Northern Trust

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Tempe, AZ
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10 days ago
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Northern Trust is a leading provider of wealth management, asset servicing, asset management, and banking services to corporations, institutions, and high-net-worth individuals. Industry: Financial Services & Asset Management

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TL;DR · IAM Operations, Senior Lead, Cyber Sec Eng

JOB TITLE: IAM Operations - Senior Lead, Cyber Sec Eng The Senior Lead, IAM Platform Operations provides operational leadership for the Identity and Access Management platform, ensuring reliability, resilience, and continuous improvement. This role serves as a key leader within the IAM organization, owning service ownership across identity governance, privileged access, authentication, authorization, non-human identity, and emerging AI-agent identity services. Day-to-day responsibilities include leading global support teams, managing capacity planning, driving automation, and overseeing incident, problem, and change management. The position requires expertise in Identity Lifecycle Management and ITIL practices to support critical security platforms in highly regulated environments. Candidates should possess experience with CyberArk, Saviynt, Entra ID, Okta, Ping, and ServiceNow. The role solves complex technical problems regarding operational readiness for audits, regulatory examinations, and maintaining compliant, scalable security services.

What you'll do

  • Lead global IAM platform operations, support teams, and service management functions.
  • Own operational performance, availability, resiliency, capacity planning, and lifecycle management for IAM platforms.
  • Establish and maintain service-level objectives, operational metrics, dashboards, and executive reporting.
  • Drive automation, self-service capabilities, and continuous improvement to reduce operational risk.
  • Lead incident, problem, and change management activities including root-cause remediation.
  • Ensure operational readiness for audits, regulatory examinations, and control assessments.
  • Manage vendor relationships, operational budgets, support contracts, and service performance.
  • Build and develop a high-performing global operations organization focused on accountability and service excellence.

What we're looking for

  • Must have 10+ years of experience in IAM, Cyber Security, or Technology Operations.
  • Must have 5+ years of leadership experience managing enterprise platforms or operational teams.
  • Must have expertise in Identity Governance, Privileged Access Management, Authentication, Authorization, and Identity Lifecycle Management.
  • Must have experience supporting critical security platforms in large, highly regulated organizations.
  • Must have proven success driving operational transformation, automation, and service maturity improvements.
  • Must have a strong understanding of ITIL, service management, operational resilience, and risk management practices.
  • Experience with CyberArk, Saviynt, Entra ID, Okta, Ping, ServiceNow, or cloud identity platforms (preferred).
  • Work Authorization.

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