Sr Director of Identity & Access Management

Function

We’re Hitachi Digital, a company at the forefront of digital transformation and the fastest growing division of Hitachi Group. We’re crucial to the company’s strategy and ambition to become a premier global player in the massive and fast-moving digital transformation market.
 

Our group companies, including GlobalLogic, Hitachi Digital Services, Hitachi Vantara and more, offer comprehensive services that span the entire digital lifecycle, from initial idea to full-scale operation and the infrastructure to run it on. Hitachi Digital represents One Hitachi, integrating domain knowledge and digital capabilities, and harnessing the power of the entire portfolio of services, technologies, and partnerships, to accelerate synergy creation and make real-world impact for our customers and society as a whole.
 

Imagine the sheer breadth of talent it takes to unleash a digital future. We don’t expect you to ‘fit’ every requirement – your life experience, character, perspective, and passion for achieving great things in the world are equally as important to us.

Meet our Team
 

We are the Hitachi Digital Global Information Security team, and we are passionate advocates of Information Security! We have the primary responsibility for safeguarding the confidentiality, integrity, and availability of data, systems, and information in the enterprise.
We ensure that corporate systems are secure, and we make sure that products that we deliver to customers are free of security flaws and vulnerabilities. We are seeking Sr. Director of Identity and Access Management. Most relevant to this role, we seek to ensure that the right people get access to the right resources at the right time, in a secure fashion.

We constantly seek new and better ways of doing things. We need highly motivated individuals to join our dynamic team who have positive attitudes and want to be part of something special. We strive for nothing less than the very best information security program.
 

The Role
 

The Sr. Director of Identity & Access Management will support and advise the Chief Information Security Officer on all matters related to ensuring the security of identities across the enterprise and how those identities gain access to key resources. The successful candidate will lead the IAM program for the company, ensuring that key IAM platforms are operating efficiently and effectively including SSO, MFA, PAM, SASE, CIAM, Active Directory, and other adjacent capabilities. This IAM leader will also lead an international team to ensure the uptime of these systems.
 

What you’ll bring

• Expert level understanding of trends in the industry for identity and access management

• Excellent soft skills are a must, we are looking for a strong people person, who is thoughtful in his or her approach to working on teams and working with people on other teams

• 10+ of experience working in Cybersecurity, and 5+ years of experience managing IAM programs

• Expert level technical experience with OKTA is required, including expert level experience with SSO integrations and design and architecture with identity systems in a large enterprise (technical proficiency will be assessed in the recruiting process)

• Strong familiarity with the concepts of PAM, SSO, MFA, and Zero Trust / SASE, and ability to design systems to accomplish these controls and concepts

• A fluency in the language of cybersecurity. The ability to understand technical concepts and translate them to an assessment of risk

• Excellent written and oral communication skills in English

• Self-driven with an ability to quickly adapt to new technologies and variable in a dynamic and fast moving large scale project with tight deadline

• Attention to detail and quality is an absolute must

• Willingness to work in an international team, with project meetings several times a week in odd hours to support the Americas, Europe and Asia

We’re a global, 1000-stong, diverse team of professional experts, promoting and delivering Social Innovation through our One Hitachi initiative (OT x IT x Product) and working on projects that have a real-world impact. We’re curious, passionate and empowered, blending our legacy of 110 years of innovation with our shaping our future. Here you’re not just another employee; you’re part of a tradition of excellence and a community working towards creating a digital future.

Hitachi is a global company operating across a wide range of industries and regions. One of the things that sets Hitachi apart is the diversity of our business and people, which drives our innovation and growth.

We are committed to building an inclusive culture based on mutual respect and merit-based systems. We believe that when people feel valued, heard, and safe to express themselves, they do their best work.

We help take care of your today and tomorrow with industry-leading benefits, support, and services that look after your holistic health and wellbeing. We’re also champions of life balance and offer flexible arrangements that work for you (role and location dependent). We’re always looking for new ways of working that bring out our best, which leads to unexpected ideas. So here, you’ll experience a sense of belonging, and discover autonomy, freedom, and ownership as you work alongside talented people you enjoy sharing knowledge with.

We’re proud to say we’re an equal opportunity employer and welcome all applicants for employment without attention to race, colour, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, veteran, age, disability status or any other protected characteristic. Should you need reasonable accommodations during the recruitment process, please let us know so that we can do our best to set you up for success.