at Northern Trust Company in Chicago, Illinois, United States
Job Description
About Northern Trust:
Northern Trust, a Fortune 500 company, is a globally recognized, award-winning financial institution that has been in continuous operation since 1889.
Northern Trust is proud to provide innovative financial services and guidance to the world's most successful individuals, families, and institutions by remaining true to our enduring principles of service, expertise, and integrity. With more than 130 years of financial experience and over 22,000 partners, we serve the world's most sophisticated clients using leading technology and exceptional service.
Description
- Guides the development, specification and communication of application or infrastructure architectures used by multiple business or application systems.
- Security architect primarily focused on technologies related to authentication, authorization, access management, governance, controls, regulatory requirements etc. As a key member of Workforce authorization and authentication team this candidate will play a vital role in ensuring the secure and compliant implementation of various solutions (Hybrid and Cloud).
- Provides extensive, in-depth, technical consultation to the clients, partners, and IT Management to develop plans and directions to assure the integration of corporate business area requirements.
- Acts as cybersecurity expert for cloud migration projects/programs
- Thoroughly understands decision process issues of technology choice, such as design, data security, client server communication, etc.
- Evaluates and selects from existing and emerging technologies those options best fitting business/project needs
- Promotes sharing of expertise through consulting, presentations, and documentations, etc.
- Experienced, functional expert with technical and/or business knowledge and functional expertise
- Carries out complex initiatives involving multiple disciplines and/or ambiguous projects
- Displays a balanced, cross-functional perspective, liaising with the business to help improve efficiency, effectiveness, and productivity
Requirements
- Design Identity centric Workforce Security solutions to ensure secure and efficient authentication and access management aligned with the industry frameworks and standards (NIST CSF, COBIT, SOC, GDPR etc)
- Guides the architectural development of identity solutions, access patterns, modern security protocols, practicing Zero trust, least privileged, defense in depth principles
- In-depth knowledge and experience on Entra ID, EPM, Sentinel, Azure, M365, AWS Security is required
- Review and provide feedback on Identity and access management related security solutions proposed by stakeholders and can provide consultation to the partners and IT Management
- Thoroughly understands and provides solutions considering Security technology choices, such as design, protocols support, secrets management, data security, client server communication, token handling, Session management, credential vaulting, OIDC/ OAuth flows, authorization patterns, identity federation, cloud architectures, cryptography, cloud native services, cloud security etc.
- Good understanding of Cloud Infrastructure Entitlement Management solution (CIEM) to ensure continuous improvement in Security Posture by providing consultations to application teams
- Design target architectures and roadmaps considering authentication and authorization security control frameworks and audit requirements
- Awareness of Cyber Security Risk management principles and frameworks, supply chain risk and third-party risk assessment controls
- Understanding and application...
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