Domain Architect – Identity and Platform Security

At Elanco (NYSE: ELAN) – it all starts with animals!

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We believe that diversity is the driving force behind innovation, creativity, and overall business success.

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Reporting to: TechOps Director – Client Services 

 

Location: Hook, UK (Hybrid)

Description 

We’re looking for a passionate identity & Platform Security architect to help us deliver  a robust security architecture, that is identity based for the whole company, including Manufacturing and OT environments.

The role will be partnering closely with our internal and external technical teams to run this exciting effort to redesign how Elanco manages identity & security in the future. 

 

Identity is a fundamental need for the entire organisation.

Whilst hundreds of internal applications rely on identity to function, we’re taking this opportunity to build an intelligent identity solution that can automate business processes, protect the company, and deliver an effortless user experience. 

 

The  Identity & Platform Security (IPS) Architect will be accountable for all identity and score security platform services globally, also working closely with the CTO, CISO and enterprise architecture community to embed the Identity and security principles across the organisation.  

 

The role does not include people administration, however, will provide technical leadership and decision making for the identity and security engineering teams. 

 

You’ll spend your time: 

Architecture Leadership 



* Defining, embedding and maintaining the global Identity & Security strategy, including a clear execution plan. 



* Partnering with the CTO, CISO and Enterprise Architecture, supporting the creation of architecture materials, such as a reference architecture, principles, positioning, patterns and statements. 



* Identifying opportunities to optimize and modernize the Identity architecture, driving cost efficiencies. 



* Identifying and positioning new Identity technologies that yield competitive advantage, with a specific focus on identity as the perimeter. 

 

Technical Leadership 


* Providing Identity architecture & security best practice technical leadership and decision making for the engineering team. 

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