Identity & Access Management Senior Technical Lead

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Position Overview:

The Identity and Access Management (IAM) Senior tech lead is responsible for leading engineering related initiatives to build, enhance, and deliver IAM products and services focused on access provisioning, deprovisioning, access reviews, authentication, identity management, privileged access and service account management, monitoring, and reporting. Candidate must be a strategic, thought leader, overseeing, and implementing industry standard best practices applicable to the Freddie Mac’s environment. The lead must oversee the development of security solutions that adhere to applicable policies and comply with information security requirements.

Responsibilities also include working with IT teams to consult and partner on solutions with appropriate access controls, along with managing control design patterns that enable IT asset owners’ adoption of IAM enterprise control solutions.

The candidate will also collaborate with key stakeholders to extend the IAM control solutions to technology assets while working with other subject matter experts and engineers.

Our Impact:

We design, build, enhance, and deliver IAM products and services focused on access provisioning, deprovisioning, access reviews, authentication, identity management, privileged access and service account management, monitoring, and reporting. We provide thought leadership, overseeing, and implementing industry standard best practices applicable to the Freddie Mac’s environment.

Your Impact:

• As part of IAM solution architecture and engineering team, you should drive business outcomes through tech solutions, must understand the business objectives (intended outcomes) and must identify feasible solutions that will enable/further those outcomes.

• Collaborate with Enterprise Architecture and Risk & Security groups to ensure new and existing solutions are aligned with enterprise standards.

• Formulate and manage a business and resource plan for the team to ensure appropriate resources are aligned to support IAM strategic plans, goals, and objectives.

• Partner with business and IT customers to drive product re-search, RFP/vendor interview from technical perspective and is responsible for communicating business cases for TAWG/ARB approvals.

• Work with other development leads on design brainstorming and design review to ensure alignment with current authentication patterns, and standards.

• Drive and adopt a culture driven by data - where key performance indicators are gathered from top to bottom and fed to automated

Qualifications:

• Bachelor’s degree in computer science, Information Technology, or related fi eld or equivalent work experience

• Minimum 10 years’ experience with developing and implementing identity and access management tools and solutions.

• Minimum 8 years’ experience managing and developing strong information security and/or technology teams.

• Understanding of IAM relevant technical solutions (such as SailPoint, MFA-Ping, Privileged Access Management: CyberArk). Fine-grained authentication policy enforcement and standardization via PlainID.

• Demonstrated experience with infrastructure technologies including Cloud, Lightweight Directory Access Protocol (LDAP), Security Assertion Markup Language (SAML), and MFA/SSO.

• Ability to think strategically and communicate effectively at the most senior levels of the company to communicate the value and benefit of IAM solutions.

• Possess strong knowledge of industry best practices, technology, and evolving threats to enhance defenses for Freddie Mac’s information systems and resources. Advises management on security protocols and incidents. Mentors and trains to ensure team knowledge and effectiveness.

• 3-5+ years of troubleshooting and investigating complex is‐sues within a highly regulated and secure environment.

• Specific experience with NIST, PCI, or other information security related framework.

• Ability to convey technical information to all groups and individuals concisely and clearly both verbally and in writing to individuals with limited technical experience.

• CISSP, CISM, Cloud Security (CCSP, CCSK), or other information security related certification(s).

• Customer service driven, quality focused, and collaborative with effective and persuasive written and oral communication skills.

• Strong knowledge and experience with incident/problem management processes

• Possess critical thinking and business risk analysis skills.

• Strong communications skills, oral and written.

• Ability to collaborate and interact productively with team members and key stakeholders.

• Ability to communicate complex and technical issues to di‐verse audiences, orally and in writing, in an easily under‐stood and actionable manner.

• Ability to effectively influence and convince others to make appropriate changes in their priorities and behaviors for the benefit of the organization.

• An understanding of business needs and commitment to delivering high-quality, prompt, and efficient service to the business.

Keys to Success in this Role:

• Drive for Execution – Be accountable for strong individual performance

• Partnership – Build trust and strong partnerships through your actions

• Growth and Development – Know or learn what is needed to deliver results and successfully meet execution goals

• Strong analytical skills with high attention to detail.

• Strong organizational, time management, negotiation, and resource management skills.

Current Freddie Mac employees please apply through the internal career site.

We consider all applicants for all positions without regard to gender, race, color, religion, national origin, age, marital status, veteran status, sexual orientation, gender identity/expression, physical and mental disability, pregnancy, ethnicity, genetic information or any other protected categories under applicable federal, state or local laws. We will ensure that individuals are provided reasonable accommodation to participate in the job application or interview process, to perform essential job functions, and to receive other benefits and privileges of employment. Please contact us to request accommodation.

A safe and secure environment is critical to Freddie Mac’s business. This includes employee commitment to our acceptable use policy, applying a vigilance-first approach to work, supporting regulatory mandates, and using best practices to protect Freddie Mac from potential threats and risk. Employees exercise this responsibility by executing against policies and procedures and adhering to privacy & security obligations as required via training programs.

CA Applicants:  Qualified applications with arrest or conviction records will be considered for employment in accordance with the Los Angeles County Fair Chance Ordinance for Employers and the California Fair Chance Act.

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Time-type:Full time

FLSA Status:Exempt

Freddie Mac offers a comprehensive total rewards package to include competitive compensation and market-leading benefit programs. Information on these benefit programs is available on our Careers site.

This position has an annualized market-based salary range of $154,000 - $232,000 and is eligible to participate in the annual incentive program. The final salary offered will generally fall within this range and is dependent on various factors including but not limited to the responsibilities of the position, experience, skill set, internal pay equity and other relevant qualifications of the applicant.