Account Technology Strategist - Co. West Midlands, United Kingdom - Nexere Consulting

Description

The "Product Strategist – Identity and Access Management (IAM)" will play a critical role in the overall Product Management of IAM by defining the Product Strategy, Vision and Roadmaps.

By developing a deep understanding of both IAM Customer needs and the available capabilities / technologies in the market, the Product Strategist will ensure customer needs are built into the product DNA, and are translated into concepts that can be delivered by our Agile teams (Solution Architecture, Technology Specialists, Compliance & Assurance) delivering measurable business outcomes.

identity communities – Enterprise (workforce), Business Partners, Customers, Vehicles.
identity types – human & non-human accounts (e.g. service accounts)
Develop a deep understanding of the group's existing organisational structures, different Identities, enterprise technology ecosystem, IAM technology landscape, process, policies and data across all in-scope communities, identifying pain points and opportunities to improve business outcomes (e.g. customer satisfaction, cost, security, functionality)

Support the Head of IAM to develop a holistic IAM strategy taking into account above points and understanding lifecycle process, provisioning processes across different environments and internal competencies – understanding strength and struggles.

Engage deeply with relevant stakeholders to ensure IAM strategy and technology decisions support long-term organisational objectives, optimise prioritisation and resource allocation, and manage risks.

Understand the current and future IAM Customer needs ensuring the IAM Agile Portfolio Strategic themes include the agreed business outcomes and develop a lean execution plan based on a critical path tightly coupled with business risk impact.

Engage with Head of IAM, CISO and other senior management in digital and LoBs, driving high-level product strategy and technology decisions.

Collaborate to create a seamless flow from high-level strategy down to practical implementation working in collaboration with partnering LoB domains, business product owners, enterprise security architects and enterprise architects.

Collaborate and have governance oversight with the agile team, to ensure that their designs are compatible with the overarching enterprise product strategy and architecture.

Ability to gain stakeholder buy-in considering a portfolio-wide, strategic approach to advancing technologies and driving the direction of its investment, rather than simply monitoring the implementation and progress of initiatives.

Communicate regularly with the agile team, ensuring that solutions designed for specific business ecosystems /products /units are consistent with the IAM product strategy and roadmap.

Maintain alignment between individual projects and the broader organisational strategy while ensuring that technology decisions are well-informed and supportive of long-term goals.

Conduct market research and maintain good knowledge of identity technologies and how the risk and capability landscape is evolving which the business needs to stay abreast of and benefit from.

Digital Domain Directors and LoB leaders & programme directors
prior experience as a subject matter expert within Identity and Access Management, in particular deep technical knowledge of identity management within a technology agnostic IT, IoT and OT space

knowledge of Identity and Access Management governance principles and best practices and experience in managing information security risk relating to identity.

working knowledge of industry IT compliance standards, particularly in design and implementation
of relationship management of senior stakeholders
IT skills, able to analyse data for reporting purposes
of identity and access management within a DevOps environment, including API Management platforms, containerisation and in all key cloud platforms