Director, PAM Architecture

Job Description:

Director, PAM Architecture

The Role

The Enterprise Cybersecurity Architecture Privileged Access Management Team is seeking a Director, PAM Architecture to join our team. As an individual contributing Architect in PAM, you will:

• Drive adoption of enterprise standards (reference architectures) and best practices, and promote changes in process, standards, or technologies when necessary.
• Develop and produce high quality documentation for strategic security architecture vision, including blueprints, standards and frameworks that are aligned with overall business strategy.
• Participate in solution architecture design, lead security efforts assisting with the integration and initial implementation of solutions (PoC s)
• Serve as information security subject matter expert, provide advisory and consulting services as required.
• Keep abreast of application security trends and the emerging threat landscape and actively engage with vendors, understanding architecture roadmaps, technology direction, and investment to improve security capabilities and deliver cost effective solutions.
• Influence the enterprise IAM architecture vision, strategy, principles, and blueprint with focus on Privileged Access and position Fidelity as a recognized leader in Identity & Access Management
• Participate in the development of IAM capabilities roadmap based on forward looking business & security strategies to drive program and investment decisions.

The Expertise and Skills You Bring

• Work Experience: minimum 7 years of demonstrated technical lead / architectural skills and responsibilities.
• Bachelor s or Master s degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, Management Information Systems or equivalent work experience
• Deep technical understanding of and experience with security technologies in areas related to Identity and Access Management to address privilege-based risk
• Working knowledge and experience with "Cloud Architectures" (e.g., SaaS, PaaS, IaaS) and the ability to address the unique security considerations of secure\u00A0Cloud computing (e.g. integrating IAM with Enterprise services, Secure-SDLC. Data Protection - cryptography, key management)
• Experience with IAM products and solutions for privileged access management, authentication, authorization, identity provisioning, auditing and monitoring
• Architect, design, and develop scalable and secure PAM solutions that align and integrate with enterprise platforms/pipelines.
• Deep architectural understanding of the following:
  • Privileged Access Management
    • Password Vaulting
    • Privileged Session Management
    • Linux Kerberos Bridging
  • Secrets Management
    • Patterns for Authentication
    • Credential Rotation
  • Ethical Hacking and Risk Management
  • Federation and Single Sign On (SAML, OIDC)
  • Directories (e.g. Azure Active Directory, LDAP)
  • Multi-factor authentication, adaptive authentication
• Qualities:
  • Skilled at taking complex topics and making them simple.
  • Transparent judgment and stands behind their decisions.
  • Flexible and collaborative with peers

The Team

The Enterprise Cybersecurity Architecture Team is responsible for the following:

• Security Architecture Vision/Innovation
• Security Architecture & Strategy Development
• Architecture Standardization & Evangelism
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Fidelity spends roughly $6 billion on technology each year.\u00A0 As part of this critical driver for our future growth, our security architects play a critical role and are empowered to lead the enablement and execution of transformational initiatives and strategies.

Company Overview

Fidelity Investments is a privately held company with a mission to strengthen the financial well-being of our clients. We help people invest and plan for their future. We assist companies and non-profit organizations in delivering benefits to their employees. And we provide institutions and independent advisors with investment and technology solutions to help invest their own clients money.

Join Us

At Fidelity, you ll find endless opportunities to build a meaningful career that positively impacts peoples lives, including yours. You can take advantage of flexible benefits that support you through every stage of your career, empowering you to thrive at work and at home. Honored with a

, we have been recognized by our employees as a top 10 Best Place to Work in 2024. And you don t need a finance background to succeed at Fidelity\u2014we offer a range of opportunities for learning so you can build the career you ve always imagined.

blends the best of working offsite with maximizing time together in person to meet associate and business needs. Currently, most hybrid roles require associates to work onsite all business days of one assigned week per four-week period (beginning in September 2024, the requirement will be two full assigned weeks).

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