Principal IAM Cyber Strategy

ntrs; Tempe (AZ); On-site; USD 120,000 - 180,000; Full time

Job summary

Northern Trust in Tempe, AZ, seeks an IAM Strategy and Product Manager to define and evolve its enterprise IAM data strategy, capabilities, and data products. This role bridges cybersecurity, technology, risk, and business units to ensure identity data is accurate, accessible, and aligned with enterprise objectives.

You will own the backlog, drive multi-year roadmaps, and lead initiatives around Workforce IAM, Privileged Access, Customer Identity, and analytics, with governance and AI-enabled

Qualifications

• Strong understanding of product management and IAM concepts.

Responsibilities

• Define and execute the multi-year roadmap for IAM Data Services.
• Own the backlog, prioritization, and delivery of IAM data platforms and analytics.
• Translate strategic objectives into actionable product requirements with engineering and security teams.
• Lead development of dashboards, metrics, KPIs, and executive reporting for cybersecurity and risk governance.
• Establish governance for identity data standards, lineage, and usage.

Skills

Product Management

Tools

Databricks

Job description

About Northern Trust

As a global leader in innovative wealth management, asset servicing, asset management and banking services, Northern Trust (Nasdaq: NTRS) is proud to guide the world's most successful individuals, families, corporations and institutions.

Since 1889, we have aligned our efforts with our three guiding Principles That Endure: Service, Expertise, and Integrity. Together, they reflect the three cornerstones of business conduct which we strive to instill in our employees, whom we call partners, and to provide to our clients and the communities we serve worldwide.

With more than 135 years of financial experience and over 24,000 partners, we serve the world's most sophisticated clients using leading technology and exceptional service.

Position Summary

The IAM Strategy and Product Manager, IAM Data Services is responsible for defining, delivering, and evolving Northern Trust's enterprise IAM data strategy and capabilities. This role owns the vision, roadmap, and execution of identity data products that support access governance, privileged access management, authentication, authorization, regulatory reporting, operational analytics, and emerging AI-driven identity services.

The individual serves as the bridge between cybersecurity, technology, risk, business stakeholders, and engineering teams, ensuring identity data is accurate, accessible, actionable, and aligned to enterprise security and business objectives. The role focuses on transforming identity data into strategic business assets that improve risk management, operational efficiency, regulatory readiness, and decision-making.

Major Responsibilities

Product Strategy & Roadmap

Define and execute the multi-year roadmap for IAM Data Services, ensuring alignment with enterprise cybersecurity, technology, data, and business strategies.

Establish and manage identity data products that support Workforce IAM, Privileged Access Management, Customer Identity, Authentication, Authorization, and Identity Governance processes.

Develop business cases, investment priorities, success metrics, and adoption strategies for IAM data capabilities.

Identify opportunities to leverage identity data to improve regulatory reporting, operational intelligence, risk management, governance, and audit readiness.

Product Ownership & Execution

Own the backlog, prioritization, and delivery of IAM data platforms, services, analytics, and reporting capabilities.

Partner with engineering, architecture, security, risk, and business teams to translate strategic objectives into actionable product requirements.

Lead planning, development, implementation, monitoring, and continuous improvement activities across multiple identity data initiatives.

Drive successful execution of complex initiatives involving multiple technologies, business functions, and stakeholder groups.

Identity Data & Analytics

Oversee enterprise identity data architecture, data modeling, data quality, and governance practices.

Define and manage data products leveraging platforms such as Databricks, enterprise data lakes, and analytics solutions.

Drive development of dashboards, metrics, KPIs, and executive reporting supporting cybersecurity, audit, regulatory, and operational objectives.

Enable self-service analytics and data consumption capabilities for IAM stakeholders and business partners.

Establish trusted identity data sources supporting enterprise access reviews, certification campaigns, privileged account governance, entitlement management, and risk reporting.

AI & Advanced Analytics

Identify and prioritize opportunities to leverage artificial intelligence, machine learning, and agentic identity capabilities utilizing IAM data assets.

Partner with cybersecurity, data science, and technology teams to develop identity intelligence, anomaly detection, behavioral analytics, and predictive risk use cases.

Ensure IAM data services support future AI-enabled automation and decisioning capabilities across the identity ecosystem.

Stakeholder Management & Governance

Collaborate with senior business, technology, cybersecurity, and risk leaders to define requirements and measurable outcomes.

Establish governance processes for identity data standards, quality controls, ownership, lineage, and usage.

Present roadmap updates, key metrics, operational performance, and strategic recommendations to senior leadership.

Build strong partnerships across cybersecurity engineering, enterprise architecture, infrastructure, data engineering, compliance, audit, and risk organizations.

Operational Excellence

Ensure IAM data services meet established reliability, performance, availability, security, and compliance requirements.

Continuously evaluate processes and recommend automation opportunities to improve efficiency, effectiveness, and scalability.

Drive adoption of industry best practices and emerging technologies supporting identity intelligence and analytics.

Required Knowledge & Skills

Product Management

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