WPP is the creative transformation company. We use the power of creativity to build better futures for our people, planet, clients, and communities.
Working at WPP means being part of a global network of more than 115,000 accomplished people in 110 countries. WPP has headquarters in New York, London and Singapore and a corporate presence in major markets worldwide.
We create transformative ideas and outcomes for our clients through an integrated offer of communications, experience, commerce, and technology.
WPP and our award-winning agencies work with most of the world's biggest companies and organisations – from Ford, Unilever and P&G to Google, HSBC, and the UN. Our clients include 61 of the FTSE 100, 307 of the Fortune Global 500, all 30 of the Dow Jones 30 and 62 of the NASDAQ 100. WPP are the leader in the Bloomberg Gender Equality Index and 20th in the FTSE 100 rankings for Women on Boards.
Why we're hiring:
To manage the Cloud, on-prem Directory Services, design, development, deployment, integrations and where applicable migrations to the target IDAM platform, with the objective of maximising security, organisational collaboration and lifecycle automation whilst delivering a first class end user experience to employees, partners and clients across the WPP global group.
What you'll be doing:
- Sets the vision for on-prem Directory Services, IDaaS aligned to the defined IDAM strategy.
- Liaison with directory engineering teams as required to define requirements, build capability and migrate from legacy identity systems.
- Global Active Directory product management and prioritisation of backlog.
- Aid definition and implementation of a rigorous global JML process to ensure robust and timely access management.
- Standardisation of configuration across all deployments, aligned to best practice.
- Participate in and provide assistance to teams to drive migration from legacy on-prem directory services, as required.
- To work with the Information Security teams to maximise the security of policies and solutions and provide support for any ongoing remediations or investigations.
- Global product lifecycle management, aligned to the Architecture roadmap informed by product, user and data insights where available.
- Drive the maximum possible level of automation and instrumentation of the development lifecycle for OKTA products and align to SRE principles.
- Liaise with other Product Manager counterparts in other areas to ideate and co-ordinate common process and standards.
- Drive adoption of secure by design, DevOps engineering and agile practices as defined by Platforms and Transformation CoPs.
- Liaise with engineering communities to optimise ways of working with this product.
- Support innovation and horizon scanning for strategic and emerging technologies.
What you'll need:
- Product management
- Collaboration skills
- Expert level knowledge of AD/LDAP, AAD, AADC, Adaxes, SCCM, Citrix, Okta, Group Policy, MIM
- Experience of working in global, highly complex environments
- Problem and Service Management
- Working with Third Party suppliers
Who you are:
You're open: We are inclusive and collaborative; we encourage the free exchange of ideas; we respect and celebrate diverse views. We are accepting: of new ideas, new partnerships, new ways of working.
You're optimistic: We believe in the power of creativity, technology and talent to create brighter futures or our people, our clients and our communities. We approach all that we do with conviction: to try the new and to seek the unexpected.
You're extraordinary: we are stronger together: through collaboration we achieve the amazing. We are creative leaders and pioneers of our industry; we provide extraordinary every day.
What we'll give you:
Passionate, inspired people – We promote a culture of people that do extraordinary work.
Scale and opportunity – We offer the opportunity to create, influence and complete projects at a scale that is unparalleled in the industry.
Challenging and stimulating work – Unique work and the opportunity to join a group of creative problem solvers. Are you up for the challenge?
WPP is an equal opportunity employer and considers applicants for all positions without regard to race, color, religion or belief, sex, age, national origin, citizenship status, marital status, military/veteran status, genetic information, sexual orientation, gender identity, physical or mental disability. We believe in creating a dynamic work environment that values diversity and inclusion and strives to recruit a diverse slate of candidates to help us achieve that goal.
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WPP is a creative transformation company. We use the power of creativity to build better futures for our people, planet, clients and communities.
