Senior Identity and Access Management Technical Consultant

Company: EDWARD JONES
Location: Waterloo
Posted on: March 17, 2023

Job Description:

At Edward Jones, we help clients achieve their serious, long-term financial goals by understanding their needs and implementing tailored solutions. To ensure a personal client experience, we have located our 15,000+ branch offices where our more than 7 million clients live and work.

In a typical branch office, a financial advisor meets with clients and receives branch office support, so they can focus on building deep relationships with clients. Headquarters associates in St. Louis, Tempe and Mississauga provide support and expertise to help U.S. and Canada branch teams deliver an ideal client experience. We continue to grow to meet the needs of long-term individual investors.
Team Overview:
The Senior IAM Engineer helps architect, deploy and operate a secure application infrastructure that aligns with business needs. The position is responsible for supporting operational innovation and providing security direction to the business to elevate the company's security posture within a cloud computing infrastructure. An advanced role, the Senior IAM Engineer helps deliver applications at scale and with resiliency to support business initiatives. The Senior IAM Engineer is also expected to possess administrative and troubleshooting skills, and be knowledgeable about architecture, engineering and design principles. The Senior IAM Engineer should be adept at dealing with disparate applications and data systems to maintain the level of rigor required to adhere to business direction. Along with depth of system coverage, the role requires planning and design of policies and maintenance.

What You'll Do:
In tandem with security leadership, consistently assess the threat landscape and adapt quickly to protect the business from risk. The Sr. IAM Engineer must:

• Identity and Access Management automation - preferred Saviynt experience but will accept experience with SailPoint
• Be self-driven with minimal daily oversight required.
• Design and implement security architectures and strategies to safeguard information system resources and assets.
• Ensure integration of technology that upholds the Information Security policies and standards, as well as meets firm business objectives.
• Identify opportunities for security process improvement.
• Provide support of critical security infrastructure components to ensure system availability.
• Maintain awareness of security technology direction, trends, and related issues.
• Develop long-term strategy for supported security system.
• Actively mentor and train other associates in their area of expertise.
• Provide direction as to the effective use of technology within the enterprise architecture.
• Provide leadership related to technical aspects of tools, methodologies, best practices and processes and standards that apply to their technical area of expertise.
• Research technical improvements and takes the initiative to communicate/implement solutions.
• Participates and represents area in cross-functional groups.
• Communicates issues and problem resolutions with all affected stakeholders, business areas and vendors.
• Research requirements to determine system feasibility, costs, benefits, or functional requirements.
• Ensure prudent use of the firm's financial resources What You'll Need:
  7+ years of experience with all of the following:
  • Identity and Access Management automation
  • Single Sign-On (SSO) technology - skills deploying and supporting Single Sign-on (SSO) of applications within an organization. Must include support skills such as tracing, logging and real-time troubleshooting.
  • Federation - Security Assertion Markup Language (SAML) and/or OpenID Connect (OIDC) skills required to support both internal and vendor authentication. Must include support skills such as tracing, logging and real-time troubleshooting.
  • Multi-Factor Authentication (MFA) technology - skills deploying and supporting MFA technology for internal and internet facing application requirements.
  • Coding / scripting skills - Ability to add, update or troubleshoot code to resolve issues, create efficiencies or integrate systems is a plus. Java required.
  • General knowledge of Active Directory (AD) or other LDAP Directory Services, Intrusion Detection, Security Policies / GPOs, Operating System (OS) hardening, Privileged Access Management (PAM), Certificates/Public Key Infrastructure (PKI), Identity Management concepts, Cloud Technology and device authentication a plus.
  • Experience with Saviynt or SailPoint
    • 100 Best Workplaces for Millennials in 2022, published Fortune July 2022, Great Places to Work data as of March 2022. Compensation provided for using, not obtaining, the rating.
      • Edward Jones was recognized as one of the Best Workplaces for Millennials by Great Places to Work and Fortune magazine. The privately held firm ranked No. 2 overall, in its fourth appearance on the list.
      • 2022 Fortune Best Workplaces for Women, published September 2022, research by Great Places to Work , data as of August 2021. Compensation provided for using, not obtaining, the rating.
        • Edward Jones has been named to the 2022 Best Workplaces for Women list by Great Places to Work and Fortune magazine, ranking No. 45.
        • 2022 Fortune's 100 Best Companies to Work For, published April 2022, research by Great Place to Work , data as of August 2021. Compensation provided for using, not obtaining, the rating.
          • For the 23rd time, Edward Jones has earned a spot on the Fortune 100 Best Companies to Work For ranking by Great Places to Work and Fortune magazine. Edward Jones ranked No. 35 on the prestigious 2022 list.
          • 2022 Best Places to Work For LGBTQ+ Equality, Great Place to Work in partnership with Human Rights Campaign Foundation, published Equity Magazine January 2022, data as of July 2021. Compensation provided for using, not obtaining, the rating.
            • Edward Jones scored 100 percent on the Human Rights Campaign Foundation's 2022 Corporate Equality Index (CEI) the nation's foremost benchmarking survey and report measuring corporate policies and practices related to LGBTQ+ workplace equality. The ranking designated Jones as one of the best places to work for LGBTQ+Equality. Edward Jones does not discriminate on the basis of race, color, gender, religion, national origin, age, disability, sexual orientation, pregnancy, veteran status, genetic information or any other basis prohibited by applicable law.
              At Edward Jones, we value and respect our associates and their contributions, and we recognize individual efforts through a rewards program that promotes a long-term career, financial security and well-being. Visit our career site to learn more about our total compensation approach, which in addition to base salary, typically includes benefits, bonuses and profit sharing. The salary range for this role is based on national data and actual pay is based on skills, experience, education, and other relevant factors for a potential new associate:
              
              Salary: $92984 - $158325
              Category: Headquarters

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