CIAM Agile Lead

Northern Trust • Chicago, IL

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About The Position

The Principal, Cyber Security Engineering – IAM Agile Delivery Lead provides leadership for Agile delivery practices across the Identity and Access Management (IAM) organization. The role establishes consistent ways of working across IAM teams, improves delivery predictability and transparency, and aligns Agile execution with enterprise governance and System Development, Acquisition, and Maintenance (SDAM) requirements.

The role provides leadership and guidance to Scrum Masters supporting IAM programs and engineering teams. It partners with engineering, product, project, program, governance, and Cyber Security leaders to strengthen planning, execution, dependency management, and project status reporting. The successful candidate leads delivery practices across IAM beyond the scope of an individual Agile team, improving visibility and accountability for strategic IAM initiatives while balancing Agile principles with enterprise security, risk, regulatory, and governance expectations.

Requirements

• Significant experience in Agile delivery, technology program delivery, engineering delivery, or related disciplines within a large enterprise environment.
• Demonstrated experience leading or coordinating Scrum Masters and multiple Agile delivery teams.
• Strong knowledge of Agile and Scrum principles, software development lifecycles, and technology delivery practices.
• Experience integrating Agile delivery with technology governance, risk, compliance, or audit requirements.
• Strong program and portfolio management skills, including milestone, dependency, risk, and status management.
• Ability to influence and lead across engineering, product, project management, and governance organizations.
• Strong written, verbal, facilitation, and executive communication skills.
• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, Cyber Security, Engineering, Business, or a related discipline, or equivalent professional experience.

Nice To Haves

• Cyber Security, Identity and Access Management (IAM), or Customer Identity and Access Management (CIAM) experience.
• Experience in financial services or another highly regulated environment.
• Agile, Scrum, or project/program management certifications.

Responsibilities

• Establish and drive consistent Agile delivery practices across IAM engineering and project teams.
• Provide leadership, coaching, and direction to Scrum Masters supporting IAM initiatives.
• Standardize Agile practices for backlog management, sprint and release planning, dependency management, risk management, and delivery reporting.
• Align Agile delivery practices with SDAM requirements, incorporating required governance, documentation, evidence, testing, and approvals into delivery planning.
• Establish consistent project and portfolio reporting for milestones, accomplishments, risks, issues, dependencies, and upcoming commitments.
• Partner with engineering, product, project, governance, and Cyber Security leadership to identify and resolve cross-team delivery challenges.
• Provide leadership with actionable visibility into project health, delivery risks, and decisions requiring escalation.
• Define and use delivery metrics to improve predictability, transparency, and continuous improvement.
• Lead Agile communities of practice and promote repeatable delivery standards across IAM.
• Drive continuous improvement while balancing Agile principles with enterprise security, risk, regulatory, and governance expectations.

Benefits

• Retirement benefits, including 401(k) and pension.
• Health and welfare benefits, including medical, dental, vision, spending accounts, and disability coverage.
• Paid time off.
• Parental and caregiver leave.
• Life and accident insurance.
• Other voluntary and well-being benefits.
• Discretionary bonus program that may include an equity component.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Principal