Vice President - Access & Identity Management (AIM) Operations & Customer Identity Engineering

We are looking for a Vice President - Access & IdentityManagement (AIM) Operations & Customer Identity Engineering. In the Technology division, weleverage innovation to build the connections and capabilities that power ourFirm, enabling our clients and colleagues to redefine markets and shape thefuture of our communities. This is a Cybersecurity Engineering position at VPlevel, which is part of the job family responsible for providing specialistcyber expertise and creating solutions that protect the organization's systemsand networks against actual and potential security threats and vulnerabilities. Since 1935, Morgan Stanley is known as a global leader in financial services,always evolving and innovating to better serve our clients and our communitiesin more than 40 countries around the world. What you'll do in the role: >Responsible for leading the operations, engineering, security, andmodernization of enterprise Identity and Access Management (IAM) and CustomerIdentity and Access Management (CIAM) platforms supporting customers,employees, partners, and applications globally. >Owns the delivery, reliability, governance, and continuous improvement ofstrategic identity platforms, including Transmit Security, PingFederate,ForgeRock, Multi-Factor Authentication (MFA), passkeys, passwordlessauthentication, adaptive authentication, OAuth 2.0, OpenID Connect (OIDC), SAMLfederation, and customer identity services. >Leads customer identity initiatives across Morgan Stanley platforms, driving the design,implementation, and operation of secure authentication, authorization, SingleSign-On (SSO), identity verification, account recovery, and fraud-resistantauthentication solutions. >Responsible for platform operations, technologymodernization, security enhancements, regulatory compliance, operational riskmanagement, large-scale integrations, and identity transformation programs. >Partners closely with cybersecurity, engineering, infrastructure,architecture, risk, compliance, and business stakeholders to deliver secure,scalable, resilient, and customer-centric identity services while enablingdigital transformation and business growth. Team Leadership: - Managing global IAM operations & engineering teams - Foster a collaborative and high-performing environment within the team. - Set clear goals, provide guidance, and ensure efficient execution of tasks. - Manage team members, including performance and training assessments. - Provide support and guidance t- stakeholders at the senior-most supportlevel. IAM: - Build, maintain, and optimize global company IAM services, assessing systemperformance and offering suggestions and contributing t- solutions. - Collaborate with cross-functional teams t- integrate IAM solutions across theorganization. - Ensure compliance with security standards and best practices. - Resolve issues escalated by customers and engineers. - Align IT IAM infrastructure with current and future business requirements andstrategic goals SRE Principles: - Champion Site Reliability Engineering(SRE) principles within the team.. - Collaborate with development teams t- improve system architecture andresilience. - Drive initiatives t- enhance system security, reliability, availability, andperformance, leveraging new and emerging process automation opportunities t-improve organization effectiveness and efficiencies. - Partnering with system owners, certify business continuity and disasterrecovery efforts of our IAM systems. What you'll bring to the role: Technical Skills: An acute understanding of: - IAM products, such as those provided by Transmit Security, ForgeRock and PingIdentity. - General network and enterprise security standards including vulnerability management, patchingand concepts -Support internal and external regulatory requests. - Intermediate knowledge of operating system administration on Windows andLinux [Redhat] platforms - An intermediate knowledge of at least one scripting language such asPowerShell, Perl, Python or Shell and familiarity with using debuggers whentroubleshooting. - Experience working with large enterprise architecture. - Familiarity working with operational and plant management tooling such asSplunk, Grafana, ServiceNow and Jira and Jenkins Soft Skills: - Active interest in Access Management systems, Directory products andInformation Security. - Outstanding written and oral English communication skills: capable of writingcomprehensive documentation, making presentations t- an internal audience andinteracting positively with upper management, colleagues and customers. - Independent problem-solving attitude, highly motivated and self-directing. - Comfortable working with an operations and support team with end userinteraction and with periodic on-call responsibilities. - Proven experience as an IT Operations manager or similar role. - Supporter of SR Experience: - Previous experience in IT Operations or Engineering management. - ITIL, CISSP or similar certification (optional). What you can expect from Morgan Stanley: At Morgan Stanley, we raise, manage and allocate capital forour clients – helping them reach their goals. We do it in a way that’sdifferentiated – and we’ve done that for 90 years. Our values - putting clientsfirst, doing the right thing, leading with exceptional ideas, committing todiversity and inclusion, and giving back - aren’t just beliefs, they guide thedecisions we make every day to do what's best for our clients, communities andmore than 80,000 employees in 1,200 offices across 42 countries. At MorganStanley, you’ll find an opportunity to work alongside the best and thebrightest, in an environment where you are supported and empowered. Our teamsare relentless collaborators and creative thinkers, fueled by their diversebackgrounds and experiences. We are proud to support our employees and theirfamilies at every point along their work-life journey, offering some of themost attractive and comprehensive employee benefits and perks in the in…