Relocation Assistance Available
Position Summary
As a member of the professional staff, contributes specialized knowledge and skill in a discipline (e.g., Accounting, Finance, Human Resources, Inventory, Revenue Management, Information Resources, Operations Planning & Support, Sales & Marketing) area to support team and/or department business objectives. Generally, works under limited supervision, but within established guidelines, producing and analyzing more complex business information to assist in the decision-marking process.
Business Context
Marriott Vacations Worldwide (MVW) is a leading global vacation company that offers vacation ownership, exchange, rental and resort and property management, along with related businesses, products, and services. The Company has over 120 vacation ownership resorts and approximately 700,000 owner families in a diverse portfolio that includes some of the most iconic vacation ownership brands. The Company also operates exchange networks and membership programs comprised of nearly 3,200 affiliated resorts in over 90 countries and territories, as well as provides management services to other resorts and lodging properties.
As a leader and innovator in the vacation ownership industry, the Company upholds the highest standards of excellence in serving its customers, investors and associates while maintaining exclusive, long-term relationships with Marriott International, Inc. and Hyatt Hotels Corporation for the development, sales and marketing of vacation ownership products and services.
The vision of MVW is to strive to build long-lasting relationships with their Owners, Members, customers, and associates to help them live their lives to the fullest. Innovation. Integrity. Excellence. This is the story of MVW. And while the company spans brands and businesses, decades and continents, their shared inspiration continues to drive them forward: delivering unforgettable experiences that make vacation dreams come true.
Global Technology Context
The Global Technology (GT) team at Marriott Vacations Worldwide (MVW) is on a multi-year journey to modernize technical and digital products and platforms across all business lines. This role demands a visionary leader with a technical understanding of the range of resort operations technical products in solving complex business challenges. Proven success as a leader in recruiting, developing, and retaining technical talent on high performing teams is required. The incumbent is a proven thought leader, a consensus builder, and an integrator of people, processes, and technology.
Specific Job Summary
Reporting to the VP of Information Security Architecture, the AVP, Identity & Access Management (IAM) will help lead the overall strategy, planning, evaluation & implementation of the entire Identity/Access Management stack. The individual in this role will significantly contribute to the direction and oversight into the IAM functions across the MVW enterprise, including areas such as developing centralized provisioning IAM engine to all MVW business and workforce applications, workflow and review certification, Audit and Compliance, Hybrid cloud management, Privileged Access Management, Authentication & Authorization.
This leader will require expert knowledge in modern Identity Management approaches, administration, Identity cloud services, custom connector development, installation and configuration, performance tuning, backup, and
recovery methods in multiple computing environments and must be well versed in J2EE, .Net, Service Oriented Architecture (SOA), Web Services, LDAP, XML, Oauth, OpenID, and SAML 2.0. This position also requires knowledge of SQL databases and should be able to support other areas or functions as needed.
The position leads designing, specifying, and selecting business application information security solutions, considering functionality, data, security, privacy, interoperability, scalability, and performance for the most advanced IT architectures. This position will directly contribute to the overall global enterprise cloud architecture and lead the security vision and strategy around business focused Identity Management and information security.
Expected Contributions
• Contributes to team, department, and/or business results by performing complex quantitative and qualitative analysis for business processes and/or projects. Often manages small projects, business processes or parts of larger ones.
• Responds to, solves, and makes decisions on more complex/non-routine business requests with limited to moderate risk.
• Assists more senior associates in achieving business results by:
o identifying opportunities to enhance the effectiveness of business processes
o participating in setting department operating plans.
o achieving results against budget within scope of responsibility.
• Demonstrates an awareness of personal strengths and areas for improvement and acts independently to improve and increase skills and knowledge.
• Performs other duties as appropriate.
Specific Expected Contributions
• Architecting, implementing and managing IAM systems including Customer IAM (CIAM) solutioning.
• Architecting and managing across all facets of IAM (Governance, Access Management, Privileged Access Management).
• Identifying and addressing issues related to IAM performance.
• Providing technical leadership for the integration of IAM systems.
• Ensuring alignment between IAM standards and business objectives.
• Developing and maintaining IAM policies, procedures, and standards.
• Working with stakeholders to understand their IAM requirements and translating them into technical specifications.
• Performing audits ensuring that systems are in compliance with established IAM standards and policies.
• Providing support and guidance to team members regarding IAM.
• Ensuring that IAM systems are updated regularly and remain secure against potential threats.
• Documenting IAM strategies and systems for future reference and review.
• Participate on significant application development projects to design secure architectures and ensure developed systems align with MVW security strategy and policy.
• Maintain security architecture documentation, including architecture frameworks, design patterns, logical and physical diagrams, and standards.
• Enhance Security team capabilities by mentoring more junior team members.
• Champion information security principles and best practices on key customer feature development projects to help design secure architectures and ensure developed systems align with MVW security strategy and policy.
• Lead the definition and methodology for ensuring applications and processes are fully integrated with our digital & service delivery platforms.
• Ensure that company developed, as well as third-party applications adhere to security best practices and principles, as well as design mitigation solutions for applications to meet these standards.
• Create security architecture documentation, including architecture frameworks, patterns, and standards.
• Partner with leaders across our Information Security and Data Privacy organization, as well as other organization leads.
• Work directly with peers and/or third parties to provide mitigations and strategic solutions to solve major application security hurdles by evaluating business strategies and requirements.
• Studying architecture/platform identifying integration issues and preparing cost estimates.
Candidate Profile
Successful candidates should possess knowledge and experience and demonstrate leadership skills as follows:
Generally, a professional position with specific knowledge in a discipline (e.g., Accounting, Human Resources, Information Technology). College degree and/or relevant experience typically required.
Specific Candidate Profile
Education
• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, or related discipline or equivalent work experience.
• Master's degree in information security or related discipline preferred.
Certifications Preferred
• Certified Identity and Access Management (CIAM)
• OCI Oracle Identity Manager
• SailPoint IIQ Administrator
• Global Information Assurance Certification (GIAC) Identity Management
Experience
• At least 10 years progressive experience in relevant Information Security discipline.
• At least 8 years of experience in Information Security.
• Proven experience managing mid to large sized Identity Management shops (at or greater than 2 million identities).
• Experience with one or more of the following: ISO 27001, NIST, CIS standards, or SOC 2 Controls
• Experience with AWS and Microsoft Azure/Entra ID
• Demonstrated expertise with modern Identity Management systems such as OCI, Sailpoint, Saviynt, BeyondTrust, and CyberArk.
Skills and Attributes
• Exceptional critical thinking skills and thought leadership with the ability to comprehend complex problems, draw logical conclusions, make sound decisions, develop solutions, and negotiate and respond accordingly to drive closure of complex challenges.
• Proven track record and experience in developing comprehensive security solutions that meet the objectives of excellence in a dynamic environment.
• Strong demonstrated knowledge of enterprise IT systems . click apply for full job details
Date Posted: 03 April 2025
Apply for this Job