Team Leader - Directory Services Hardening

Job Description:

Note: Fidelity will not provide immigration sponsorship for this position

The successful candidate will be accountable for managing a team to define, prioritize, and deliver on strategic program deliverables. Objective is to enhance the organization's cybersecurity posture by mitigating known vulnerabilities, preventing lateral movement, and improving our Identity and Access security posture.

The ideal candidate will have expertise in Active Directory, Entra ID, Identity governance, Authentication controls, and product management experience. You will collaborate with other Identity and Access Management (IAM) leaders to ensure alignment on overall strategy and program deliverables.

In this role you will:

• Own accountability for the team’s approach, planning, and engagement model to ensure continued alignment and prioritization of the product roadmap

• Demonstrate strong acumen to translate IAM control enhancements into deliverables/milestones at the sub-initiative and epic level

• Leverage agile routines to coordinate planning and prioritization, including technology strategy, capability design, objectives and KPIs, ensuring that the development sequence is aligned

• Provide day-to-day leadership for a delivery team comprised of engineering, quality, and analyst resources, and indirect leadership of supporting teams such as architecture, program management, and other COEs

• Build a high-performing engineering team, identifying and supporting on-going learning opportunities, and ensuring that the talent composition aligns with strategic business priorities and workforce planning

• Contribute to proactive research, vendor evaluations, and recommendation of new & existing capabilities that align to product and/or IAM strategies

• Oversee control & service observability, stability & resiliency, operations, and monitoring aligned to the policies, standards, and technical guidelines of the broader technology organization

The Expertise You Have and The Skills You Bring

• 7+ years of experience in a technology and leadership role, preferably managing risk utilizing the NIST cybersecurity framework

• Deep understanding of Identification and Authentication controls, IAM principles such as SAML and OpenID Connect, and Authentication Assurance Levels (AALs)

• Demonstrated experience in agile team practices, planning ceremonies, and delivery

• You are a committed people leader, capable of setting strategic direction and coaching others to deliver results and impact to achieve that strategy

• You have strong communication, interpersonal and relationship building skills with which you influence and engage across Fidelity and at all levels of the organization

• You have senior level experience leading the development of solutions and offerings aligned with and in support of the strategic direction of the business

• You leverage critical thinking and a product mindset, taking a data-focused approach to objective decision making

The Team

Fidelity’s Directory and Authentication group manages the identity and authentication security controls that help protect our workforce associates. Our teams are aligned to a set of enterprise services for managing our workforce identities, providing organizational scale of digital resources, and enhancing our access security controls.

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Category:

Information Technology

Most roles at Fidelity are Hybrid, requiring associates to work onsite every other week (all business days, M-F) in a Fidelity office. This does not apply to Remote or fully Onsite roles.

Please be advised that Fidelity’s business is governed by the provisions of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, the Investment Advisers Act of 1940, the Investment Company Act of 1940, ERISA, numerous state laws governing securities, investment and retirement-related financial activities and the rules and regulations of numerous self-regulatory organizations, including FINRA, among others. Those laws and regulations may restrict Fidelity from hiring and/or associating with individuals with certain Criminal Histories.