Identity Security Project Lead & Enablement Manager

Type of Requisition:

Pipeline

Clearance Level Must Currently Possess:

None

Clearance Level Must Be Able to Obtain:

None

Public Trust/Other Required:

MBI (T2)

Job Family:

Program Delivery and Execution

Job Qualifications:

Skills:

Access Management, Authentication, Identity Access Management (IAM)

Certifications:

None

Experience:

3 + years of related experience

US Citizenship Required:

No

Job Description:

Seize your opportunity to make a personal impact as an Identity Security Project Lead & Enablement Manager supporting the United States Postal Service. GDIT is your place to make meaningful contributions to challenging projects and grow a rewarding career.

At GDIT, people are our differentiators. As an Identity Security Project Lead & Enablement Manager you will help ensure today is safe and tomorrow is smarter. Our work depends on an Identity Security Project Lead & Enablement Manager joining our team to analyze design, develop, implement, and support code for our government customer, the United States Postal Service.

   

HOW AN IDENTITY SECURITY PROJECT LEAD & ENABLEMENT MANAGER WILL MAKE AN IMPACT

In this role, a typical day will include:

• Driving identity initiatives like deployment of Customer Identity Access Management, often focusing on driving "metrics-that-matter" within identity platforms. This individual will support our existing team.
• Manage the implementation of identity security projects while ensuring that new tools, policies, and processes are adopted across the organization
• Creating executive briefings, leading stakeholder management, storytelling with data
• Ability to communicate and collaborate with multiple functional groups

WHAT YOU’LL NEED TO SUCCEED:

Education:

• Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science or related technical discipline, preferred but not required.
• NOTE: If resources do not have a relevant college degree, an additional 4 years of relevant work experience is required.

Required Experience:

• 3+ years of experience as an Identity Security Project Lead & Enablement Manager
• 3+ years of managing technical implementations related to Identity tools (e.g., Ping, Okta, Entra, SailPoint, BeyondTrust)
  • End-to-End Implementation: Leads the planning, execution, and delivery of Identity and Access Management (IAM) initiatives
  • Strategic Road mapping: Defines the roadmap for identity security, aligning it with business goals, compliance standards (GDPR, ISO 27001), and the overall security strategy.
• Strong understanding of identity governance, Federation protocols (SAML, OAuth, OpenID), and directory services (LDAP, Active Directory)
• Strong knowledge of the “four pillars of Identity and Access Management” (IAM)
  • Administration, Authentication, Authorization, and Auditing 
• Experience with using artificial intelligence and machine learning (AI/ML) for detection of fraudulent activity and authentication of user identities in large scale enterprise context and data quality improvement
• Vendor and Technology Management: Evaluate and manage IAM technology vendors; stay current with emerging trends such as Zero Trust, password less authentication, and identity orchestration.
• Strong organizational skills and ability to build and maintain schedules and step-by-step action plans
• Effective communication and collaboration skills to work with cross-functional teams, business units, stakeholders and IT professionals, and to conduct presentations to varying audiences and technical knowledge levels

Security Clearance Level:

• Ability to obtain and maintain a Public Trust clearance and successfully pass a thorough Government background screening process requiring the completion of detailed forms and fingerprinting
• This position has a U.S. residency requirement. The USPS security clearance process requires the selected candidate to have resided in the U.S. (including U.S. Territories) for the last five years as follows: U.S. Citizens cannot have left the U.S. (including U.S. Territories) for longer than 6 months consecutively in the last 3 years (unless they meet certain exceptions). Non-U.S. Citizens cannot have left the U.S. (including U.S. Territories) for longer than 90 days consecutively in the last 3 years.

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