Director, GIAM, IAM Engineering
Scotiabank
- Toronto, ON
- Permanent
- Full-time
- You possess a visionary and strategic leadership while inspiring team of IAM solution architects and engineers to embrace your vision and be best in class team responsible for implementing and maintaining IAM solutions.
- You thrive in providing strong leadership and driving employee empowerment and a high degree of engagement.
- You excel in overseeing the architecture and design of identity solutions for the enterprise in a large and distributed environment.
- You have experience delivering complex projects providing global, innovative solutions that improve IAM.
- You excel in managing IT design, development and support teams to support the enablement of IAM capabilities.
- You excel in the assessment and selection of IAM technologies and integration partners.
- You excel in relationship, stakeholder management and influencing and negotiation skills, effective at all levels up to senior executives.
- You can efficiently perform management tasks including incident response and escalations; vendor & contract management; infrastructure management and service resiliency; and service ownership.
- You enjoy challenges of working on different types of projects (from large complex to simple).
- You collaborate with various business lines, IT support functions and Cyber Security functions to ensure IAM meets business needs.
- You have 10+ years of experience architecting, developing, integrating, implementing and managing complex solutions and large IT teams.
- You have proven experience of the IAM industry and expert understanding of IAM technologies including Virtual Directory Services, Single Sign-On (SSO), Entra ID, Active Directory Federated Services and Active Directory platforms, Identity and Access Governance, Identity Providers, Identity Provisioning, Adaptive / Biometric Authentication, Multi-Factor Authentication, Role-Based Access Control (RBAC), Privileged Access Management and Cloud IAM.
- You demonstrate strong knowledge of modern IAM protocols (such as SAML 2.0, OIDC, OAuth 2.0, SCIM), and frameworks (such as FIDO 2.0).
- You have working experience with DevOps pipelines and tools, and strong knowledge of SDLC (define, design, build, test and deploy) practices.
- You have experience with program delivery including planning and estimation.
- You possess excellent people leadership managing 20+ team members and advanced communication (verbal/written/presentation) skills to deliver strong business-focused presentations. Spanish is an asset.
- You have Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Information Security, or related field (Master's preferred).
- You have expertise in cybersecurity best practices and understanding of compliance standards (e.g., NIST, ISO/IEC 27001 and 17799)
- Experience with Agile Delivery would be an asset.
- Certification(s) (CISSP, CISM, CCSP) would be an asset.