Hybrid Team Leader – Directory Services Hardening

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• Job title: Team Leader – Directory Services Hardening
• Job type: Full Time
• Experience level: Senior
• Salary: Not specified
• Degree requirement: Bachelor's Degree
• Tech skills: Cyber Security
• Location requirements: Hybrid, Durham, United States

About the role

• Team Leader managing a team to enhance cybersecurity posture within Fidelity's Directory and Authentication group. Responsible for program deliverables, agile routines, and team leadership in identity management.

Responsibilities

• 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.
• 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.

Requirements

• 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.

Benefits

• Most roles at Fidelity are Hybrid, requiring associates to work onsite every other week (all business days, M-F) in a Fidelity office.