Lead Information Security Analyst

About the role

The role serves as the primary bridge between business units and IAM product teams, driving adoption of enterprise identity solutions through proactive engagement, education, and feedback loops.

Responsibilities

• Proactively engage business units to identify IAM pain points, adoption barriers, and access challenges across initiatives
• Understand business workflows, dependencies, and access requirements to ensure IAM solutions align with real-world use cases
• Influence stakeholders on net new or material changes to IAM enterprise solutions
• Act as the IAM Strategic Enablement partner across business units, ensuring consistent engagement, alignment, and adoption of IAM capabilities
• Gather and translate business requirements into structured inputs for IAM product and engineering teams
• Translate business feedback and access challenges into actionable product insights to improve IAM capabilities and user experience
• Evaluate and interpret information security policies, standards, and processes to enable consistent adoption and informed decision-making across IAM initiatives
• Advise on the development and delivery of IAM Enterprise Solutions
• Collaborate and consult with peers, colleagues, and mid-level to more experienced managers to resolve issues and achieve goals
• Translate business feedback and access challenges into actionable product insights to improve IAM capabilities and user experience
• Serve as a mentor to less experienced staff
• Demonstrate proficiency in using AI-assisted development and analysis tools (e.g., GitHub Copilot and approved code-centric agents)
• Leverage AI to accelerate system design, coding, testing, analysis, and troubleshooting
• Understand and account for model limitations, security risks, and operational considerations
• Apply AI responsibly in development and production environments
• Ensure AI usage aligns with security, compliance, privacy, and ethical standards

Requirements

• 5+ years of Information Security Analysis experience, or equivalent demonstrated through one or a combination of the following: work experience, training, military experience, education
• 5+ years of experience in Information Security with a strong focus on IAM

Desired Qualifications

• Proven experience supporting IAM onboarding migrations, or transformation initiatives
• Experience working in cloud and hybrid environments (Azure, GCP, on-prem AD, etc.)
• Experience applying enterprise IAM capabilities including authentication, identity governance, privileged access management, MFA, directory services, API access management, and identity analytics to support business onboarding, adoption, migrations, and access issue resolution across cloud and hybrid environments
• Strong understanding of IAM security principles, processes, and best practices such as principle of least privilege and zero-trust architecture
• Demonstrated experience in IAM Operations, triage, or support functions
• Able to drive adoption of enterprise technology solutions
• Able to influence product roadmaps using data and business impact
• Familiarity with Agile or product-driven environment
• Experience working directly with business issues, applications and product owners
• Excellent communication, facilitation, and presentation skills