Head of Function Identity

4 weeks ago


London, United Kingdom Pearson Full time

The Head of Identity and Access Management has proficiency in a diverse set of technologies and tools necessary to Engineer, lead implementation and drive our transformation to a modern, colleague orientated digital workplace. This includes stakeholder engagement, understanding business strategy and developing medium & long-term strategic roadmaps to redefine Pearson’s Digital Workplace platform services and secure solutions.

The role will require you to work, educate and influence a range of stakeholders across the business to understand their technology requirements Engineering solutions to ensure we are delivering Pearson end users with a secure and seamless experience. You will provide leadership, direction and be seen as a thought leader within the technology community.

Responsibilities and Duties:

- Lead Engineering designs exceeding business requirements to meet Pearson’s identity and access management objectives.
- Provide guidance and expertise to ensure project roadmaps encompass the required controls whilst delivering the optimum colleague experience
- Own the medium-term and long-term Engineering strategy and design for Digital Workplace Services Team in conjunction with Pearson’s CISO team.
- Work collaboratively with stake holders to plan the future of Pearson’s Digital Workplace.
- Assist in managing project deliverables to meet their objectives against quality (including security), budget control, time management.
- Design and innovate processes, standardization, and progressive governance practices
- Identity areas of improvement within the IT landscape, engineering solutions and guiding the execution of those designs through successful implementation.
- Drive innovation through implementing and enhancing automated deployments approaches.
- Practice continuous learning through attending company and/or industry training.

Skills and Abilities:

- Engineering/Architectural knowledge and proven experience of Active Directory and Azure Active Directory IDP solutions.
- Extensive knowledge and experience in securing and ‘hardening’ the environment using features such as conditional access, MFA and identity protection.
- Extensive experience implementing SSO integration to Cloud and on-prem.
- Experience implementing secure B2B and B2C solutions
- Extensive knowledge of Joiners, Movers and Leavers processes, access reviews and ‘least privilege’ in order to provide access whilst securing the environment
- Extensive knowledge of administration controls such as PIM, PAM & CyberArk.
- Experience of security solutions within the Microsoft E5 suite of products.
- Ideally Multi Cloud/Multi-Vendor experience (GCP, GSuite, AWS)

Core Competencies:

- Organization skills to balance and prioritize work and multitask
- Excellent analytical and problem-solving skills
- Effective communication skills to communicate with support personnel, customers, and Stakeholders
- Positive attitude and passion for modern mgmt, security controls & customer orientated outcomes (our colleagues)
- Excellent verbal & written communication skills
- Bring initiative and self-motivation
- Ability to collaborate across globally dispersed teams
- Customer and service delivery focused

**Job**: TECHNOLOGY

**Organization**: Corporate Strategy & Technology

**Schedule**: FULL\_TIME

**Req ID**: 10370



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