IAM Security Architect - Temp to Hire

Gallagher • Rolling Meadows, IL

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About The Position

Gallagher is a global leader in insurance, risk management and consulting services. We help businesses grow, communities thrive and people prosper. We live a culture defined by The Gallagher Way, our set of shared values and guiding tenets. A culture driven by our people, over 30,000 strong, serving our clients with customized solutions that will protect them and fuel their futures. The IAM Architect will serve as a key technical resource in our Global Cyber and Information Security (GCIS) organization. Responsible for defining an identity and access management methodology and standard that is aligned to the most current, emerging, secure and verified identity access practices and tooling. Ensuring recommendations enable the required level of protection for all internal and external users providing a zero trust methodology enabled through a globally consistent experience.

Requirements

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or related field.
• Minimum 3+ years of cybersecurity experience.
• Minimum 1+ years of experience reviewing detailed solution architectures utilizing identity access management solutions and providing feedback to the application and infrastructure teams.
• Experience with reviewing identity access management services, methodologies and patterns for custom and SaaS solutions.
• 1+ years of experience working with at least one IAM standard toolset (PING, ForgeRock, OKTA).
• Strong knowledge of complex identity and access offerings involving MFA, biometrics, workflows, custom services and processes for user support on prem and in the cloud.
• Hands on experience working with IAM licenses and ability to negotiate with identity service providers to procure the most cost effective support for AJG.
• Demonstrated working experience in a regulated and globally distributed environment with various identity security risk accessibility points (on prem, laptop, mobile).
• Knowledge and experience in enterprise architecture frameworks such as; TOGAF.
• Knowledge and experience implementing security standards frameworks (NIST - CSF, ISO 27001, CSA CCM, PCI-DSS, GDPR).

Nice To Haves

• At least one certification related to information security such as; CISSP, CCSP, AWS Solutions Architect, Azure Security.
• Demonstrated knowledge of identity and access management security monitoring tools and testing procedures supporting internal and external access.
• Insurance and risk management domain knowledge desirable.

Responsibilities

• Define and create Identity Access Management architectural standards, models, design patterns and technical specification documents.
• Assess, monitor and recommend improvements to global identity solutions to ensure and improve upon state of the art secure identity access and user identity repository protocols.
• Work closely with the security engineering team and assist in securely configuring patterns to enable zero trust and consistent verification across the global AJG domain product landscape.
• Oversee and consult with project teams in business units to ensure adherence to security design patterns, protocols, best practices, authorizations and SLAs for identity and access procedures.
• Designs and collaborates on solutions that balance business requirements with identity management security requirements ensuring the business process aligns to the recommended security services.
• Proactively identifies technical and architectural risks of identity management services or solutions maintaining or managing users, commenting and/or providing safer identity management alternatives and presenting them for approval.
• Participate in security technology evaluations, proof of concept testing and provide in-depth identity management analysis of the proposed solution including enhanced recommendations for PAM services.
• Collaborate and partner with key GCIS IAM stakeholders to ensure alignment with the overall intended identity access management strategy, controls and design.
• Partner with architects and engineers within infrastructure, network, application and business teams to ensure that identity solutions (custom or SaaS, internal or customer) are developed and managed as per GCIS policies and standards.
• Assist security compliance partners with risk mitigation and governance activities associated to identity and access management.
• Primary role is to support building identity access management architectural/solution designs and standard services supporting SaaS and custom applications.
• Periodically provide security architecture reviews of identity access patterns and configurations of proposed identity access management solutions.
• Participate on an IAM governance board providing reviews and recommendations for future state IAM, CIAM and Central Authorization services and standards.

Benefits

• Medical/dental/vision plans, which start from day one!
• Life and accident insurance.
• 401(K) and Roth options.
• Tax-advantaged accounts (HSA, FSA).
• Educational expense reimbursement.
• Paid parental leave.
• Digital mental health services (Talkspace).
• Flexible work hours (availability varies by office and job function).
• Training programs.
• Gallagher Thrive program – elevating your health through challenges, workshops and digital fitness programs for your overall wellbeing.
• Charitable matching gift program.

What This Job Offers

• Career Level: Mid Level
• Education Level: Bachelor's degree
• Number of Employees: 5,001-10,000 employees