Principal Lead - Information Security

• The Principal Lead - Information Security is a high visibility role that is responsible for driving the Privileged Account Management [PAM] Governance and plays a crucial role in Cloud Governance initiatives [eg securing AWS Secrets Manager or Azure Key Vault]
• The candidate will be part of a team that establishes, supports, and continuously improves the enterprise information security policies, practices, and standards
• This role will participate in on-going operational activities that serve to establish appropriate access to and provide the appropriate protection, confidentiality, integrity and availability of enterprise systems and data through effective security controls
• This role is also responsible for validating compliance with policies and standards that keep Ameriprise applications and infrastructure safe and secure from vulnerabilities

• Information Security Governance
• Identity & Access Governance
• Policy/Procedure Management and Enforcement
• Reporting/Metrics
• Incident Management

Education

• Provide timely and effective operational support for the firms information security tools, processes and practices in the Identity space.
• Use standard technology monitoring tools to monitor assigned environments and/or technical assets and identify/detect behavior outside of established standards.
• Escalate key security issues to the appropriate team to be addressed. Assist with security assurance testing activities.
• Monitor compliance with information security and identity policies and practices and any applicable laws.
• Assist with internal and external security risk assessments, risk analysis and application or system-level access reviews and attestations. Coordinate/facilitate access and entitlement reviews for individual applications, business lines, and the enterprise at-large.
• Assist with the research, development, continuous improvement and implementation of identity policies, procedures, standards, and processes based on compliance requirements and industry best practices. Document the identity governance requirements, processes and procedures.
• Enforce information security and identity policies and procedures by reviewing violation reports, investigating possible exceptions, and documenting controls.
• Prepare status reports on identity and access matters that are used for a variety of purposes - tracking and monitoring security breaches, forensic investigative activities, remediation plan management and risk management & compliance reporting.
• Effectively manage and prioritize ad-hoc reporting requests, scorecards, and standard departmental reporting. Coordinate with internal team and external auditors to provide documentation of compliance assessments, support, and remediation activities.
• Maintain and develop knowledge of identity & access management trends, new identity technologies and best practices.
• Conduct security and industry specific research to keep self and the firm abreast of the latest security issues and regulatory developments that may impact existing policies, procedures and practices.
• Participate in information security education, training and awareness activities for technology and business teams.

• bachelors degree in Computer Science, Management Information Systems, or related technical field; or equivalent work experience.
• 10+ years of experience in Information Security Services or related technical field.
• Work experience that spans the Identity & Access Management or Governance, Risk, and Compliance security domains.
• Working knowledge of information security and computer network/system access technologies.
• Experience working in the financial services industry or other highly regulated/compliance-oriented environments.
• Effective verbal and written communication skills that include the ability to describe highly technical concepts in non-technical terms.
• Very good understanding of security controls, monitoring systems and regulatory/business drivers that impact security policies and practices.
• Working with business users on platform related questions/issues

• Interested in gaining broad experience in Information Security Services [must have]
• First level knowledge and/or demonstrated technical ability to understand code and technology infrastructure in multiple environments with experience in the below languages [Powershell, Python, Regular expressions-based programming]
• Demonstrated basic understanding of the Software Development Lifecycle (SDLC) and programming/development procedures.
• Effective oral and written communication skills along with logical, analytical, and abstract thinking skills.
• Strong attention to detail, follow-through, and time management skills.
• Demonstrated aptitude to quickly learn and apply new tools and processes
• Defining business, user, and systems requirements
• Developing user acceptance test plans
• Developing, document, test and modify new and existing code
• Developing working knowledge of systems and processes
• Business Analysis
• Building Process Flows
• Presentations (Creating and Delivering)
• Risk Identification and Remediation
• Project Management
• Project Coordination
• Reporting (SQL queries to databases) / Correlation
• ITIL (Change, Problem, Incident, Configuration) Management

• Operating Systems (Windows, UNIX, Mainframe, etc)
• Directories/LDAP Constructs (Active Directory, Oracle, etc)
• Databases/RDBMS Constructs (Oracle, SQL, DB2, MS SQL Server etc)
• Authentication / Authorization Constructs (Directory, Hybrid, Native Source)
• Data Formats (XML, CSV, etc)