Description

As a Sr. Staff Cyber Security Architect, you will define strategies, take charge and individually own key initiatives, execute against identified priorities within the Identity Portfolio, and guide engineers through implementation, deployment and adoption of services by our respective business partners. Leverage deep technology, process, and domain expertise to execute projects for the GE Aerospace DT Separation focused on Authentication.  

This candidate will be responsible for partnering with Identity teams in Aviation & Corporate Cybersecurity teams as well as the Aviation DT CIO organizations to drive the strategy and product roadmap of GE Aerospace's Authentication Capabilities. 

The focus of this role will be to manage the design and implementation of a modern, scalable Authentication and Single Sign On (SSO) solution for the new GE Aerospace environment with seamless integration to other necessary solutions and monitoring tools. This role requires in-depth knowledge of SSO platforms to drive the design and implementation efforts related to scalability, availability, and performance alignment with the strategic product roadmap.

Requirements

Roles and Responsibilities:

• Collaborate with Aviation and Corporate Identity organizations to gain understanding of current state design, architecture, and capabilities of Ping and Azure AD environment to plan for a modernized future state environment dedicated to GE Aerospace.
• Develop solution for network device authentication with Free Radius and Ping Identity tools.
• Leads and coordinates the technical and business discussions relative to future architect direction across multiple teams or product line.
• Analyze, design and develop a roadmap and implementation plan based upon a current vs. future state in a cohesive architecture viewpoint. Review and develops use cases and problems that need to be solved across multiple teams.
• Leads the research and evaluation of emerging technology, industry and market trends to assist in project development and/or operational support activities.
• Responsible for verifying security is correctly incorporated prior to production release at all levels for Identity services. Provides leadership, technology guidance and mentors others throughout the domain.
• Define execution methodologies and project management practices to be followed by all projects within the program. Organize project teams comprising from internal and external technical and functional experts based on budget, scope and timeline.
• Manage day-to-day execution of multiple interdependent projects by working directly with global technical teams.

• Support execution team with resolution of roadblocks and interdependencies. Partner with technical and functional teams external to the project to ensure their tasks are completed as required.
• Manage project risks, scope changes and other non-standard events throughout the life of the project. Manage stakeholder communication and progress reporting at various levels of the organization including leadership and executives.
• Track project outcomes realization and customer satisfaction levels through established metrics against service level. Ensure lessons learned are collected.

Technical Expertise:

• Extensive experience in solving challenging issues in high pressure environment. Strong leadership skills with ability to influence outcomes and organize teams to attain shared goals.
• Proficient in directory services principles, architecture at enterprise scale across multiple data centers and best practices.
• Experience in development of strategy and executing roadmaps for establishing and maintaining AD/Azure AD, and synchronization of identities and group across the Aerospace tenants.
• Experience in design and implementation of virtual directory and data sync products such as Radiant Logic VDS and Meta/PingDataSync.
• Experience with design and implementation with technologies such as Active Directory(AD), Azure AD, AWS MAM, LDAP Directories, Ping Identity, 2FA/MFA/FIDO and ZeroTrust Technologies, etc.
• Experience implementing modern integrations to support compliance, and security best practices as part of a collaborative, cross-functional engineering team.
• Experience with implementing and integrating Identity and Access Management solutions across Cloud providers (eg. AWS and Azure, Workday, Salesforce, etc).
• Proven experience using project management methodologies to deliver business value and drive significant change across an organization. Experience managing budgets including budget and spend.
• Excellent influencing, interpersonal and communications skills (both written and verbal) with all levels of an organization.
• Strong track record of understanding and interest in current and emerging technologies demonstrated through training, job experience and / or industry activities.

Required Qualifications:

• Bachelor’s degree from accredited university or college with minimum of 5 years of professional experience OR Associates degree with minimum of 8 years of professional experience OR High School Diploma with minimum of 10 years of professional experience.
• Minimum 5 years of professional experience in Program Management or IT.
• Note: Military experience is equivalent to professional experience.