The Identity Fabric Program Manager will lead and be accountable for the end-to-end delivery of the Identity Fabric transformation, including vendor management and integration, migration from legacy systems, and implementation across a complex, hybrid IT landscape, within the regular business constraints of time, budget, and quality. The role requires coordination across security, architecture, procurement, and business stakeholders.
This is a high-visibility, high-accountability role, operating with significant autonomy and direct engagement with senior leadership. The successful candidate will influence strategic direction, ensure delivery predictability, and drive measurable business outcomes — especially improved security posture and successful partner execution.
Program Leadership & End-to-End Delivery:
- Own and lead the full lifecycle of a large-scale IT program: initiation, planning, execution, monitoring/control, and closure.
- Drive delivery of the Identity Fabric transformation, including:
- Privileged Access Management (PAM): Migrate from the on-prem PAM system to CyberArk SaaS. Implement Just-In-Time (JIT) access with zero standing privileges across infrastructure, cloud, SaaS, and non-server environments. Transition PAM service support to an in-house team.
- Identity Governance & Administration (IGA): Replace Nokia’s Identity Management System (NIMS, based on NetIQ) with a modern IGA platform. Automate role-based lifecycle management, entitlement governance, access certification, and user provisioning to 200+ applications. Manage the internal team’s transition from supporting NIMS to supporting IGA platform.
- Access Management (AM): Extend Microsoft Entra ID as the enterprise-wide access layer — enforce password less, phishing-resistant authentication and risk-based adaptive access consistently across all M365 and connected workloads.
- Identity Verification (IV): Deploy IV capabilities for contractor onboarding and selected employee use cases using Microsoft IDV partners.
- Non-human identities: Establish governance controls for non-human identities (service accounts, RPA/automation identities, APIs, and AI agents).
- Threat & analytics integration: Integrate the fabric with ITDR (Identity Threat Detection & Response) and Identity Analytics for continuous risk visibility and posture management.
- Translate strategic objectives into a pragmatic execution roadmap with clear milestones, dependencies, and outcomes.
- Ensure delivery within agreed scope, schedule, cost, and quality expectations.
Large-Scale Transformation Execution:
- Apply strong program governance and delivery discipline across complex, cross-functional environments.
- Operate confidently with SAFe / Agile at scale, hybrid models, or Waterfall as needed to ensure execution success.
- Establish and maintain an effective delivery rhythm, executive reporting, RAID management, and decision frameworks.
Lead through influence across architecture, security, infrastructure, end-user services, and business stakeholders.
Executive Stakeholder Communication & Adoption:
- Act as the primary program interface to executive stakeholders and senior governance forums.
- Communicate complex topics with clarity using structured storytelling, decision-ready framing, and outcome-based reporting.
- Drive stakeholder alignment on transformation roadmaps, investment decisions, trade-offs, and adoption strategy.
Ensure program benefits realization and business readiness through change/adoption planning.
Financial, Vendor & Risk Management:
- Own program financials (budgeting, forecasting, business case tracking), program resourcing, and vendor delivery performance.
- Proactively identify, assess, and mitigate risks across delivery, security posture, vendor execution, and adoption.
Ensure effective collaboration and accountability with external partners, including SI delivery governance.
Success Measures:
- Program success will be measured against the following outcomes (targets to be confirmed):
- Migration milestones achieved on schedule (PAM, IGA, AM, IV workstreams)
- Percentage of applications onboarded to IGA platform
- PAM JIT / zero-standing-privilege coverage across in-scope environments
- Password less, phishing-resistant authentication adoption across M365 and connected workloads
- Audit and access-certification findings closed; improvement in security posture
- Delivery within approved budget and partner/SI execution performance
- Strong understanding of Identity & Access Management domains, including Identity Governance (IGA), Privileged Access Management (PAM), Access Management (AM), and Identity Verification (IV).
- Proven experience with large-scale identity transformations, including migration from legacy IAM systems to modern, integrated platforms.
- Knowledge of non-human identity (NHI) and API-based access governance, including service accounts, RPA/automation identities, APIs, and emerging AI/agent access patterns.
- Solid understanding of Zero Trust security principles and policy-based access control models.
- Experience managing multi-vendor ecosystems, including system integrators and software providers, with strong commercial and delivery alignment capabilities.
- Ability to lead complex, phased migrations with coexistence of legacy and target solutions.
- Strong capability in program dependency management, especially where vendor decisions and procurement timelines define the critical path.
- Experience aligning security, architecture, and delivery stakeholders to a unified operating model.
- Ability to translate identity architecture and security controls into business outcomes (risk reduction, user productivity, compliance).
Certifications / Methodologies:
- SAFe certification (preferred / strong advantage) or equivalent.
- PgMP, or equivalent program management certification (preferred / strong advantage).
- Comfortable working across Agile, Waterfall, and hybrid delivery models.
Nice-to-Have:
- Experience working in telecom or large regulated environments.
- Prior exposure to the Nokia IT landscape or comparable enterprise ecosystems.
- Experience driving adoption, change management, and communications for security transformations.
- Master’s degree or MBA an advantage, given the executive engagement and business-case ownership in this role.
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