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Lead, Cyber Security Engineer

The Lead Cyber Security Engineer at Northern Trust in Chicago leads a team of more than 30 IT employees and is responsible for designing and implementing the company's strategy in the areas of Data Lifecycle (DDLT) and Identity and Access Management (IAM).

Tasks

  • Responsible for the design, implementation, and management of enterprise teams based on the organization's roadmap, with a focus on the data lifecycle (DDLT).
  • Leading cutting-edge initiatives, including improvements to Identity and Access Management (IAM), threat intelligence, vulnerability management, and security awareness programs.
  • Collaborate with various teams, including IT, Legal, Compliance, and Business, to integrate security across the entire company.
  • Led the development and implementation of DDLT program policies and procedures, and managed a team of over 30 IT staff members.
  • Managing up to 30 security engineers and analysts in various areas such as cloud security, forensics, and other threat response domains.
  • Monitoring and automation of the entire enterprise identity program across all digital endpoints.
  • Managing, monitoring, and improving the IT company's audit, vulnerability, and compliance strategy.
  • Ensuring a strong security posture through policies, procedures, best practices, and automation.
  • Development, implementation, and use of the DDLT toolkit to foster a stronger security culture.
  • Training staff on safety issues.
  • Collaborate with suppliers, solution partners, and colleagues to implement security improvement initiatives.
  • Collaborate with security vendors, solution partners, and colleagues to implement security features into the solution.
  • Providing technical and vendor leadership for host solution teams.

Requirements

  • Extensive experience in networking and Zero Trust (ZTNA).
  • In-depth knowledge of IAM principles, tokenization, and role-based access control.
  • Experience with automated access reviews and MFA.
  • Familiarity with SSO frameworks, centralized identity management, and SAML.
  • Expertise in modern, privileged, and compromised access controls.
  • Practical experience in configuring cloud IAM (AWS IAM, GCP IAM, and/or Azure AD).
  • Experience with KMS/Vaults.
  • 5+ years of experience in DDLT Security or Platform Engineering.
  • Bachelor's degree in computer science.
  • Proficiency with one or more tools (IAM IDaaS, IAGN) is a plus.
  • Proven success in ITAP standards.
  • Leadership skills and experience in team management.
  • Effective skills in cross-functional and stakeholder collaboration.

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