NIS - Enterprise Identity Technical Operations Lead

Company: PwC
Location: Houston
Posted on: June 12, 2021

Job Description:

A career in Information Technology, within Internal Firm Services, will provide you with the opportunity to support our core business functions by deploying applications that enable our people to work more efficiently and deliver the highest levels of service to our clients. You'll focus on managing the design and implementation of technology infrastructure within PwC, developing and enhancing both client and internal facing applications within PwC, and providing technology tools that help create a competitive advantage for the Firm to drive strategic business growth. Our System Architecture team helps build customisable specific system solutions that enhance PwC's system capabilities to appropriately serve all client needs. As part of the team, you'll use enterprise architecture across application areas to build delivery models that map PwC capabilities to business needs outlined by clients.

To really stand out and make us fit for the future in a constantly changing world, each and every one of us at PwC needs to be a purpose-led and values-driven leader at every level. To help us achieve this we have the PwC Professional; our global leadership development framework. It gives us a single set of expectations across our lines, geographies and career paths, and provides transparency on the skills we need as individuals to be successful and progress in our careers, now and in the future.

As a Director, you'll work as part of a team of problem solvers, helping to solve complex business issues from strategy to execution. PwC Professional skills and responsibilities for this management level include but are not limited to:

• Support team to disrupt, improve and evolve ways of working when necessary.
• Arrange and sponsor appropriate assignments and experiences to help people realise their potential and support their long-term aspirations.
• Identify gaps in the market and spot opportunities to create value propositions.
• Look for opportunities to scale efficiencies and new ways of working across multiple projects and environments.
• Create an environment where people and technology thrive together to accomplish more than they could apart.
• I promote and encourage others to value difference when working in diverse teams.
• Drive and take ownership for developing connections that help deliver what is best for our people and stakeholders.
• Influence and facilitate the creation of long-term relationships which add value to the firm.
• Uphold the firm's code of ethics and business conduct.

Job Requirements and Preferences:

Basic Qualifications:

Minimum Degree Required:

High School Diploma

Minimum Years of Experience:

8 year(s) progressive professional roles involving information security and/or IT management.

Preferred Qualifications:

Degree Preferred:

Bachelor Degree

Preferred Knowledge/Skills:

Regarded as an industry leader in the following areas:

• Identity and Access Management (IAM) operations principles, and those of information security in general, that is applied to integrate and drive the execution of strategic priorities, and establishing thought leadership at the NIS and firm-wide level in a particular knowledge area;
• Establishing and leading overall business strategy and plan;
• Influencing others through leadership interactions with external clients, within NIS, across functions, and with Internal firm services leadership;
• Establishing the strategic direction for the function and leading teams to execute against the strategy;
• Building and maintaining relationships across the network of firms to effectively deliver Identity and Access management activities on behalf of NIS; and,
• Executing tasks aligned to IAM with autonomy.

Demonstrates thought leader-level abilities with, and a proven record of success directing efforts such as:

• Reviewing access requests from users across the PwC Network of firms;
• Conducting Analysis of users' needs in order to make appropriate decisions for provisioning and de-provisioning;
• Working with Identity Management Tools in order to administer appropriate access to users;
• Conducting Identity Hygiene activities in order to ensure stale accounts are removed from the Identity Management environment;
• Defining Identity governance in line with legal and regulatory frameworks;
• Engaging with stakeholders to review access rights against operating manuals;
• Transitioning, maintaining, or using Security Technologies such as SIEM, Endpoint protection, Data Loss Prevention, IAM products, Forensic tools etc.;
• Working in a central technology service organization;
• Working in a complex, matrix organization; and,
• Working with multiple stakeholders across functional and technical skillsets.

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