Identity Security Architect

PURPOSE OF THE JOB

 

The Identity Security Architect is a critical member of the Owens Corning Information Security team. This team has global responsibility for ensuring the appropriate security processes, policies, and technologies are in place to support Owens Corning’s business goals and objectives. 

 

Aligned with OC's enterprise growth initiatives and strategies, the Security Architect is a key role in driving Owens Corning’s security strategy and securely enabling the business to take advantage of new technologies. Primary responsibilities of this role are to provide consultative guidance on new technology initiatives and projects, develop actionable recommendations, define security requirements and recommendations, evaluate risks and develop mitigations, and deliver security tools and processes to enable the business. 

 

A successful candidate will have specific knowledge in identity and access management platforms and concepts as well as a broad IT technology background to manage security concerns with IT infrastructure, cloud, and applications.  The ideal candidate will demonstrate the ability to connect and build trust with stakeholders, deliver commitments, and drives results.

 

Reports to:                          Director of Security Operations and Architecture

Span of Control:                Individual Contributor; indirect leadership of partners and project teams

 

JOB RESPONSIBILITIES

 

Knowing Our Businesses and their Strategies

• Build relationships within the GIS organization, cross-functionally, and with key stakeholders; ensure effective communication to remain aligned with functional objectives.
• Understand the strategic direction of the company’s businesses; develop and execute functional strategies to support and enhance business results and be knowledgeable of the project work that supports this direction and implications to the business.
• Know what best-in-class GIS organizations do and obtain outside-in market insights to understand and then apply to positively impact Owens Corning
• Consult on IT and business projects to ensure security risks are identified, prioritized, and managed appropriately

 

Executing Strategy

• Design and Implementation: Develop, implement, and maintain identity security architectures for both traditional IT and cloud environments.
• Identity and Security Frameworks: Create and update security frameworks and roadmaps to address evolving threats, enable new capabilities, and enable zero trust.
• Risk Assessment: Conduct project-based risk analysis across on-premises and cloud systems and recommend mitigation strategies.
• Identity Security: Define, plan and consult on identity security standards and solutions, such as cloud and hybrid identity platforms, internal and external identity management, privileged identity management, identity governance multifactor authentication and conditional access.
• Standards and Compliance: Develop and deploy. security standards and procedures to ensure compliance with regulatory requirements and industry best practices.
• Stakeholder Collaboration: Advise stakeholders on security requirements for new initiatives, review proposed changes, and recommend secure solutions for business objectives. Partner with internal governance, operations teams as well as external HR and business application stakeholders
• Security Reviews: Evaluate third-party software, services, and integrations for security risks, especially in cloud-based solutions.
• Continuous Improvement: Stay current with emerging technologies and threats and drive ongoing improvements in security architecture and awareness programs.
• Documentation: Maintain thorough documentation of security architectures, processes, and controls for both on-premises and cloud systems