Summary
The Identity and Access Management Leader (IAM Leader), in conjunction with the Senior Director of Information Security and the operational IT teams, is responsible for the formalizing of the Identity and Access Management program. The Teammate in this role will cultivate and operate an IAM program that defines identity governance processes along with designing and architecting IAM solutions that align with business objectives, regulatory requirements, and industry best practices.
Essential Duties And Responsibilities
This description intends to describe the general nature and level of work performed by Teammates assigned to this job. It is not intended to include all duties, responsibilities, and qualifications. To perform this job successfully, an individual must be able to perform each essential duty satisfactorily. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.
Technical Leadership
- Develop comprehensive identity and access management (IAM) strategies, policies, and procedures.
- Implement identity governance processes to manage user identities, roles, and entitlements.
- Serve as subject-matter expert in IAM disciplines.
- Assess and mitigate risks, improve internal controls.
- Ensure compliance with relevant security standards and regulations.
- Think creatively when designing systems and solutions.
- Incorporate strategic thinking to provide technical roadmaps and design innovative solutions for business needs.
- Exhibit leadership qualities and the ability to drive organizational change and positive working relationships.
Program Management
- Monitor identity and access management (IAM) systems for anomalies and potential security threats.
- Develop identity and access management (IAM) architecture blueprints, models, and documentation.
- Configure solutions to enable secure authentication and authorization.
- Conduct IAM audits and assessments to identify and remediate risks.
- Provide regular status reports and ensure timely deliverables.
- Manage IAM technologies lifecycle and infrastructure.
- Conduct risk assessments and develop metrics/KPIs.
- Demonstrate ability to work with program management and procurement to ensure financial and delivery commitments are maintained.
- Manage projects and execute on those objectives.
Collaborative Responsibilities
- Align identity and access management (IAM) processes with business initiatives.
- Lead IAM selection and vendor management.
- Evaluate emerging technologies for business needs.
- Foster understanding of IAM systems across organization.
- Build relationships with business units, specifically the Corporate IT, SRE, and development teams.
- Demonstrate cross-functional collaboration skills.
- Integrate IAM with incident response procedures.
- Demonstrate strong problem solving and troubleshooting skills and techniques.
Background Responsibilities
- Stay current with industry trends and emerging identity and access management (IAM) technologies.
- Participate in professional development activities and training.
- Support the overall information security strategy of the organization.
- Contribute to the development of IAM-related policies and standards.
General
- Exhibit strong oral and written communication skills.
- Fulfill mission statement by performing job duties with a high level of customer service while contributing to a positive team spirit.
- Special projects and other duties as assigned.
Supervisory Responsibilities
This job has no supervisory responsibilities.
Education And/or Experience
- Bachelor's degree in computer science, information systems, cybersecurity, or a related field.
- Minimum of five years of experience in technology implementation, including:
- Minimum of three years in developing, implementing and architecting information systems.
- Minimum of three years technical architecture experience integrating identity management, access management and access governance software into infrastructure and applications.
- Expert understanding and hands-on experience of identity and access management (IAM) concepts and technologies, including:
- Identity management: PAM, SSO, MFA, data management, identity federation.
- Authentication: Microsoft Active Directory/Windows authentication, Kerberos, OpenID Connect, OAuth, SAML, SCIM, Azure AD/Entra ID.
- Authorization: role-based access control, access request and certification.
- User lifecycle management processes.
- Cloud-based identity and access management (IAM) solutions and integrations.
- Experience with IAM tools and platforms, including enterprise directory architecture and design (directory schema, directory services, namespace, and replication topology).
- Expert understanding of web security standards, architecture, and best practices for web and application security.
- Experience with DevOps practices and automation tools related to IAM, such as scripting for user provisioning or integrating IAM into CI/CD pipelines.
- Knowledge of and ability to evaluate emerging IAM technologies such as biometrics, passwordless and zero trust architectures.
Physical Demands
The physical demands described here are representative of those that must be met by a Teammate to successfully perform the essential functions of this job. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.
While performing the duties of this Job, the Teammate is regularly required to sit; use hands to finger, handle, or feel and talk or hear. The Teammate is occasionally required to stand; walk; reach with hands and arms and stoop, kneel, crouch, or crawl. The Teammate must frequently lift and/or move up to 25 pounds. Specific vision abilities required by this job include close vision, distance vision, color vision, peripheral vision, depth perception and ability to adjust focus.
Work Environment
While performing the duties of this job, the Teammate regularly works in an office setting. The noise level in the work environment is usually moderate.
Equal Employment Opportunity
Buckle is committed to hiring and developing the most qualified Teammates from the available workforce in the communities we serve.
Equal employment opportunity has been, and will continue to be, a fundamental principle at Buckle, where employment is based upon personal capabilities and qualifications without discrimination and retaliation because of veteran status, uniformed service member status, race, color, national origin or ancestry, creed, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, age, pregnancy (including childbirth, lactation, and related medical conditions), national origin or ancestry, physical or mental disability, genetic information (including characteristics and testing), or any other protected characteristic as established by applicable local, state, or federal law. For state specific information, refer to the Teammate Center.
