Information Security Analyst 4 - IAM Subject Matter Expert

Motion Recruitment Partners LLC; Charlotte, Northern (NC, KY); Hybrid; USD 110,000 - 150,000; Full time

Job summary

Motion Recruitment Partners LLC is seeking an Information Security Analyst 4 in Charlotte, NC. This hybrid role is a long-term contract opportunity with a 12-month duration at a major financial services company.

You will work with IAM-focused security initiatives, ensuring secure identity governance across cloud and on-prem environments, and collaborate with business units to address access challenges.

Qualifications

• 5+ years of Information Security Analysis experience or equivalent via work, training, or education.
• 5+ years in Information Security with a strong focus on IAM (Identity and Access Management).

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 an Engagement Partner for IAM across business units, ensure consistent engagement and adoption
• Gather and translate business requirements into inputs for IAM product and engineering teams
• Translate business feedback into actionable product insights to improve IAM capabilities

Skills

IAM

Information Security

Cloud & Hybrid Environments

Agile Methodologies

Communication Skills

Tools

Azure

GCP

AD

API Access Management

Job description

Outstanding long-term contract opportunity! A well-known Financial Services Company is looking for a Information Security Analyst 4 in Charlotte, NC (Hybrid).

Work with the brightest minds at one of the largest financial institutions in the world. This is a long-term contract opportunity that includes a competitive benefit package! Our client has been around for over 150 years and is continuously innovating in today's digital age. If you want to work for a company that is not only a household name, but also truly cares about satisfying customers' financial needs and helping people succeed financially,

Contract Duration: 12 Months

Required Skills & Experience

• 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 Skills & Experience

• 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
• Experience driving adoption of enterprise technology solutions
• Ability 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

What You Will Be Doing

• 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 on material changes to IAM enterprise solutions
• Act as an Engagement Partner for IAM 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
• Apply strong technical judgment when validating and integrating AI assisted outputs into solutions
• 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