Avp - Authentication Services Analyst

AVP - AUTHENTICATION SERVICES ANALYST
AVP - AUTHENTICATION SERVICES ANALYSTApply locations London time type Full time posted on Posted 4 Days Ago job requisition id 10068432-WD
Do you want your voice heard and your actions to count? Discover your opportunity with Mitsubishi UFJ Financial Group (MUFG), one of the world's leading financial groups.
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Overview of the Department/Section: MUFG (Mitsubishi UFJ Financial Group) is one of the world's leading financial groups.
Headquartered in Tokyo and with approximately 350 years of history, MUFG is a global network with around 2,300 offices in over 50 countries including the Americas, Europe, the Middle East and Africa, Asia and Oceania, and East Asia.
The group has over 150,000 employees, offering services including commercial banking, trust banking, securities, credit cards, consumer finance, asset management, and leasing.
The Authentication Services team sit within our IT Risk and Control department which is responsible for implementing and managing all technology related controls over IT and information risk and business continuity, supports the provision of disaster recovery solutions, performs risk assessments, and manages business recovery plans and the business recovery facility.
Information Security is also the responsibility of this function.
Main Purpose of the Role: An exciting opportunity is available to join this group for an Identity Management Specialist, who will report to the team lead and provide the technical capability to support the creation of a strategic direction for the Identity Management domain and associated tool set, together with supporting and maintaining overall service health and vendor management.
Currently concentrated primarily around MS Active Directory and focused on all aspects of this technology, the Authentication Services team handle day to day management of the AD platform on premise and Azure AD; the technical documentation; maintenance of platform standards through to the planning of technical direction and strategy.
The Identity Management role will sit within this highly productive team and the successful candidate will be expected to familiarize themselves with the processes and procedures of the Bank quickly to support and oversee the day to day platform management and the coaching / mentoring on best practice of operating the identity process.
Candidates will be expected to articulate complex technical instruction in plain English to earn the support of senior management stakeholders and those technically less experienced.
The role requires an excellent team player; a self-starter with a motivation and desire to seek out & deliver improvements and a drive to document and promote future platform opportunities for approval and funding.
Candidates applying for this role must be able to demonstrate in-depth knowledge of Identity Management, Microsoft Active Directory on premise and cloud based Azure Active Directory through either a Microsoft Systems Engineer qualification or at least 5 years' experience working in this specialty.
Candidates must also be able to demonstrate examples of real-world experiences using their skills allied with a good knowledge of current and future trends within tech around Cyber Security, Identity Management and related authentication methodologies.
Key Responsibilities: Main escalation point for SME 3rd line BAU incidents and tasks for in-depth trouble-shooting and analysis.Assist and advise Team Lead on technical direction for Identity Management, especially through technical workshops and 1:1 coaching sessions, to ensure alignment to business strategy.Creation and maintenance of technical guides to convey fact, simply and effectively to both peers and those less experienced.Daily management and maintenance of the Identity Management platform, ensuring service availability; health and performance monitoring & alerting and the maintenance of operational & technical documentation.Balance technical fact / opinion against business risk / delivered service to provide well thought through guidance to support technical staff with incident; problem investigation and project decisions.Initiate investigation and proactive improvements for standard operating processes and procedures, utilising the current owned / licensed tools available, to evidence and escalate issues to the management team.
Candidate should be comfortable in communicating with all levels of the management hierarchy.Produce and interpret service performance and security data to provide analysis for investigations; baseline performance and trend reports for management to highlight areas of focus / improvement and on-going change.Play a leading role in educating other tech functions in authentication technology and ensure Service Delivery and customer satisfaction is at the heart of the team.
Encourage teamwork and cooperation at all times.Push use of Automation and scripting functionality to simplify and improve all aspects of Authentication tasks and monitoring.Work with the problem management function under the ITIL framework to investigate potential root causes.Skills and Experience: Functional/Technical Skills and Knowledge requirements Essential: Microsoft Active Directory and Windows ServerAzure Active DirectoryAbility to create/Edit/troubleshoot Powershell ScriptsPreferred: Quest AD management tools (for example, Quest Change Auditor, Quest Recovery Manager)ADFSCertificate ServicesPrivileged Access ManagementSingle Sign On configuration methods and protocolsVaronis DatAdvantage or other file auditing toolsCloud based resources (Infrastructure as Code, SaaS, Azure fundamentals etc)MUFG operate a hybrid working model with 3 days per week in the office. We are open to considering flexible working requests in line with organisational requirements.
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We make our recruitment decisions in a non-discriminatory manner in accordance with our commitment to identifying the right skills for the right role and our obligations under the law.
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