Principal Lead-Identity Management and Governance

Key Responsibilities

Principal Lead-Identity Management and Governance is a high-visibility role responsible for leading Privileged Account Management (PAM) and governance initiatives in an Independent Contributor level, with a strong focus on cloud governance, including securing credential/key management tools.

This individual will drive governance activities that ensure appropriate access controls and safeguard the confidentiality, integrity, and availability of enterprise systems and data through effective security controls. The role also includes validating compliance with information security policies and standards and raising awareness among stakeholders to help maintain a secure application and infrastructure environment.

Key Responsibilities:

Major Areas of accountability:

· Information Security Governance

· Identity & Access Governance

· Privileged Account Governance

· Policy/Procedure Management and Enforcement

· Reporting/Metrics

· Incident Management

· Education of Security Standards

· Provide timely and effective governance for the firm's information security tools, processes and practices in the Identity space.

· Use standard technology monitoring tools to monitor assigned environments and/or technical assets and identify/detect behavior outside of established standards.

· Escalate key security issues to the appropriate team to be addressed. Assist with security assurance testing activities.

· Monitor compliance with information security and identity policies and practices and any applicable laws.

· Assist with internal and external security risk assessments, risk analysis and application or system-level access reviews and attestations.

· Coordinate / Facilitate reviews for different platforms across the enterprise on a periodic basis.

· Assist with the research, development, continuous improvement and implementation of identity policies, procedures, standards, and processes based on compliance requirements and industry best practices.

· Document the identity governance requirements, processes and procedures with focus on continuous improvement using Automation [script / process based].

· Enforce information security and identity policies and procedures by reviewing violation reports, investigating possible exceptions, and documenting controls.

· Prepare status reports on identity and access matters that are used for a variety of purposes - tracking and monitoring security breaches, investigative activities, remediation plan management and risk management & compliance reporting.

Location: Noida/Hyderabad

Shift Timings: 2:00 -10:30 pm

Cab Provided: Yes

Required Qualifications: 

Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Management Information Systems, or related technical field; or equivalent work experience.10+ years of experience in Information Security Services or related technical field.Work experience that spans the Identity & Access Management or Governance, Risk, and Compliance security domains.Working knowledge of information security and computer network/system access technologies.Experience working in the financial services industry or other highly regulated/compliance-oriented environments.Effective verbal and written communication skills that include the ability to describe highly technical concepts in non-technical terms.Very good understanding of security controls, monitoring systems and regulatory/business drivers that impact security policies and practices.Working with business users on platform related questions/issues

The successful candidate will need to demonstrate proficiency in atleast one of below verticals:

Privileged Account Management Capabilities, Services and Processes using tools such as CyberArk and / or Competitor tools like Delinea, Arcon, BeyondTrust, Hashicorp.At least one of the following Cloud Governance technologies: AWS, Azure, GCP with experience in securing key services such as AWS Secrets Manager or Azure KeyVault.

In addition, the successful candidate will need to meet below requirements:

• Interested in gaining broad experience in Information Security Services [must have]

• First level knowledge and/or demonstrated technical ability to understand code and technology infrastructure in multiple environments with experience in the below languages [Powershell, Python, Regular expressions-based programming]

• Demonstrated basic understanding of the Software Development Lifecycle (SDLC) and programming/development procedures.

• Effective oral and written communication skills along with logical, analytical, and abstract thinking skills.

• Strong attention to detail, follow-through, and time management skills.

• Demonstrated aptitude to quickly learn and apply new tools and processes

• Defining business, user, and systems requirements

• Developing user acceptance test plans

• Developing, document, test and modify new and existing code

• Developing working knowledge of systems and processes

• Business Analysis

• Building Process Flows

• Presentations (Creating and Delivering)

• Risk Identification and Remediation

• Project Management

• Project Coordination

• Reporting (SQL queries to databases) / Correlation

• ITIL (Change, Problem, Incident, Configuration) Management

Preferred Qualifications: 

Basic knowledge and experience with:

• Operating Systems (Windows, UNIX, Mainframe, etc.)

• Directories/LDAP Constructs (Active Directory, Oracle, etc.)

• Databases/RDBMS Constructs (Oracle, SQL, DB2, MS SQL Server etc.)

• Authentication / Authorization Constructs (Directory, Hybrid, Native Source)

• Data Formats (XML, CSV, etc.)

• Identity & Access Governance Capabilities:

  o Role Based Access Controls (RBAC)

  o Provision / De-Provisioning

  o Access Request

• Privileged Access/Credential Management

• Privileged Access Management Suites

  o CyberArk

• Development / Programming / Scripting

  o SQL for Oracle or MS SQL

  o Java EE

• Compliance Types (GLBA, HIPAA, IT Compliance, NERC, PCI, SOX, etc.)

• Service Organization Controls (SOC1, SOC2)

About Our Company
Ameriprise India LLP has been providing client based financial solutions to help clients plan and achieve their financial objectives for 125 years. We are a U.S. based financial planning company headquartered in Minneapolis with a global presence. The firm’s focus areas include Asset Management and Advice, Retirement Planning and Insurance Protection. Be part of an inclusive, collaborative culture that rewards you for your contributions and work with other talented individuals who share your passion for doing great work. You’ll also have plenty of opportunities to make your mark at the office and a difference in your community. So if you're talented, driven and want to work for a strong ethical company that cares, take the next step and create a career at Ameriprise India LLP.

Ameriprise India LLP is an equal opportunity employer. We consider all qualified applicants without regard to race, color, religion, sex, genetic information, age, sexual orientation, gender identity, disability, veteran status, marital status, family status or any other basis prohibited by law.

Full-Time/Part-Time

Full time

Timings

(4:45p-1:15a)

India Business Unit

AWMPO AWMP&S President's Office

Job Family Group

Technology