Head of Identity and Access Management

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• Strategic Leadership:
  Develop and execute a comprehensive IAM strategy aligned with HPE’s business goals and the evolving threat landscape, leveraging a threat-based methodology to identify, prioritize, and address emerging risks. Define and track maturity goals and key performance indicators (KPIs) that demonstrate measurable progress toward targets, supported by sound financial planning and effective resource allocation.
• Workforce IAM:
  Oversee all aspects of identity lifecycle management for employees, contractors, and affiliates, ensuring secure authentication, authorization, and role-based access controls, while balancing security rigor with operational efficiency and user satisfaction.
• Customer / Partner IAM:
  Architect and manage scalable solutions for external identities, enabling seamless, secure access for customers and partners. Ensure these solutions reflect a threat-based approach and deliver exceptional user experience and regulatory compliance.
• Privileged Access Management:
  Implement and govern robust controls for privileged accounts, minimizing risk through continuous monitoring, auditing, and just-in-time access models. Employ threat intelligence to guide privileged access policies, without compromising workflow effectiveness.
• Secrets Management:
  Develop and execute the enterprise secrets-management strategy, including the governance, tooling, and lifecycle controls required to securely generate, store, rotate, and audit API keys, service credentials, certificates, and other machine identities.
• Identity Governance:
  Lead the development and implementation of identity governance frameworks, policies, and processes. Ensure proper alignment of access rights with business roles, regular access reviews, and compliance with regulatory and internal standards. Oversee automated provisioning / de-provisioning, segregation of duties, and recertification to safeguard sensitive data and support audit readiness, while maintaining operational excellence.
• Zero Trust Integration:
  Lead the integration of IAM into HPE’s Zero Trust framework, with identity serving as a core pillar for all security initiatives. Ensure threat-centric IAM measures complement business agility and user empowerment.
• Agentic AI Identities
  
  Roadmap:
  
  Design and champion the roadmap for Agentic AI identities, including governance of autonomous digital agents, ethical considerations, lifecycle management, and secure enablement across HPE’s technology ecosystem.
• Risk and Compliance:
  Ensure IAM programs meet all internal and external standards, regulatory requirements, and industry best practices through continuous threat assessment and adaptive controls.
• Team Development:
  Build, mentor, and lead a high-performing global IAM team, ensuring the right structure, resources, and capabilities are in place for success. Foster a culture of innovation, accountability, and continuous improvement, with an emphasis on threat-based thinking and operational excellence.
• Stakeholder Engagement:
  Partner with executive leadership, IT, cybersecurity, product, and business teams to embed IAM into enterprise architecture, drive cross-functional alignment, and deliver solutions that balance strong security with an optimal user experience.
• Technology Evaluation:
  Assess and recommend emerging IAM technologies, methodologies, and frameworks that incorporate threat intelligence, operational excellence, and usability to maintain HPE’s competitive edge.

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Information Security, Engineering, or related field;
  Master’s degree preferred.
• 15+ years of progressive experience in Information Security, with direct Identity and Access Management experience, and 5+ years in senior leadership roles.
• Proven track record of developing and executing global IAM strategies in large, complex organizations.
• Expertise in Workforce IAM, Customer / Partner IAM, Privileged Access…