IAM Specialist

Company

Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago

The Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago is one of 12 regional Reserve Banks that, along with the Board of Governors in Washington, D.C., make up our nation's central bank. Our work promotes a safe, sound, and stable financial system which fosters an economy that works for everyone, so people can find jobs and prices remain stable.

Together, we serve in an innovative environment that values our employees and applies the highest ethical standards. Our culture is deeply rooted in our service to our nation and our organizational values of integrity, service, innovation, inclusion, growth, and development. As an employee with us, you'll find support to grow amongst a diverse team, while feeling united by our clear and common purpose.

Federal Reserve Financial Services (FRFS) delivers a suite of payments services to financial institutions via FedLine Solutions, Fedwire Funds and Securities, the National Settlement Service (NSS), FedCash 1, FedACH , Check Services, and the FedNow Service. FRFS operates as a fully integrated organization with groups dedicated to customer experience, operations, technology, product and customer/industry management, enterprise services, payments system improvement, and one focused on the ongoing growth and development of the FedNow instant payment service. Our strategy defines our future direction, seeking to offer a fully integrated product suite that provides speed, resilience, and choice in meeting the payments needs of FRFS customers across the United States. Through our Enterprise structure, we strive to meet the needs of the marketplace for new products and services with speed and agility, seek to provide a robust and unified customer experience, and work to create career growth opportunities for FRFS staff.

The FRFS Enterprise operates with a customer-first mindset, comprised of team members seeking to do the best work of their careers in pursuit of our important central bank mission.

About The Role

The Identity and Access Management specialist role includes the following responsibilities:

• Support the implementation of IAM processes across the FRFS business line, ensuring compliance standards are met and alignment with enterprise security standards and security best practices.
• Facilitate the development and socialization of IAM policies that align FRFS business needs with enterprise capabilities and standards
• Support enterprise IAM tooling and migration efforts, serving as a central point of contact for FRFS where appropriate
• Socialize IAM best-practices and foster an IAM-aware "culture" across FRF S
• Provide IAM consultation to FRFS stakeholders to help them understand policies, practices, and foster a common understanding and adoption of IAM best practices.
• Maintain relationships with business areas and enterprise partners that interact with FRFS in a moderately complex manner on a regular basis.
• Staff must be able to work under general to limited supervision.
• Ability to work in close partnership within cross-functional, technical and non-technical and agile teams to drive strategic security efforts to closure.
  
  

Your Background

• Familiarity with IAM tools and their application in enterprise environments. Key experience includes, but is not limited to, using IAM tools to manage provisioning, access re-certification, on- and off-boarding, Roles Based Access Management (RBAC), as well as attribute-based management, etc.
• Experience implementing orchestration/workflow processes using contemporary automation tools
• Experience using scripting and data management tools to facilitate data analysis.
• Experience collaborating in cross-functional teams to enhance information security awareness and enablement of industry best practices.
• Experience leading and participating in cross-functional teams to define/develop security solutions/architectures/patterns in accordance with business requirements.
• Experience leveraging automation and AI-driven tools for identity governance and anomaly detection.
• Understanding of industry-standard architectural best practices such as least-privilege enforcement, infrastructure segmentation, and zero trust architecture.
• Familiarity with DevSecOps principles in support of agile product development.
• Familiarity with contemporary security event logging tools like Splunk, Datadog, etc. and similar security orchestration tools
• Familiarity with contemporary scripting tools such as PowerShell, Unix shells, etc
• Bachelor's degree in computer science, information systems, business, or a related field; or the equivalent combination of education and experience.
• Familiarity in low-code/no-code workflow solutions and application lifecycle management solutions.
• Familiarity with Product Management and Agile Methodologies.
• Learning mindset geared toward innovation and creativity for applying technology capabilities in new ways, necessary for both the delivery of effective technology and business solutions.
  
  

What We Offer

• Comprehensive benefits package include medical, dental, vision, prescription drug coverage, 401k savings plan, retirement plan, paid time off, transit benefit, onsite gym and subsidized cafeteria
• A continuous learning environment with opportunities to gain new skills and grow your career
• The Chicago Fed offers benefits to support overall health and financial security. Learn more about our benefits here:
  
  

Additional Requirements

• This position may require you to travel as much as 10% of the time.
• Applicants must be currently authorized to work in the United States without the need for visa sponsorship now or in the future.
• This position has additional screening requirements due to the information accessed while performing the job. These additional screenings would be initiated at the time of offer acceptance and can take approximately two months to be completed. The screening covers areas such as education/employment verification, criminal history, credit history, and reaches out to your references and people that know you well.
• As a condition of employment, Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago employees must comply with the Bank's ethics rules, which generally prohibit employees, their spouses/domestic partners, and minor children from owning securities, such as stock, of banks or savings associations or their affiliates, such as bank holding companies and savings and loan holding companies. If you or your spouse/domestic partner or minor child own such securities and would not be willing or able to divest them if you accepted an offer of Bank employment, you should raise this issue with the recruiter for this posting, who can provide you contact information for our ethics official if necessary.
  
  

The expected starting salary range for this position is between $122,600 and $134,900 annually in addition to annual performance-based discretionary bonuses. Final salary and offer will be determined based on the applicant's relevant experience, skills, internal equity, and alignment with geographic and other market data.

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We are committed to equal employment opportunity regardless of race, color, ancestry, religion, sex, national origin, sexual orientation, age, marital status, disability, gender, gender identity or expression, or veteran status.

Full Time / Part Time

Full time

Regular / Temporary

Regular

Job Exempt (Yes / No)

Yes

Job Category

Information Technology Family Group

Work Shift

First (United States of America)

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