IAM Security Architect Senior - Temp to Hire

Gallagher
Rolling Meadows, IL


Welcome to Gallagher – a global leader in insurance, risk management, and consulting services. With a growing team of more than 52,000 professionals worldwide, we empower businesses, communities, and individuals to thrive. At Gallagher, you can build a career whether it’s with our brokerage division, our benefits and HR consulting division, or our corporate team. Experience The Gallagher Way, a culture fueled by shared values and a collective passion for excellence. Join one of our dynamic teams, where you'll play a pivotal role in shaping Gallagher's future and unlocking unparalleled opportunities for both clients and yourself.

We believe that every candidate brings something special to the table, including you! So, even if you feel that you’re close but not an exact match, we encourage you to apply.

Overview

Gallagher is a global leader in insurance, risk management and consulting services. We help businesses grow, communities thrive and people prosper. We live a culture defined by The Gallagher Way , our set of shared values and guiding tenets. A culture driven by our people, over 30,000 strong, serving our clients with customized solutions that will protect them and fuel their futures.

  • Please note additional position details below:
  • This is a Temp-To-Hire, W-2 position. We are not able to do 1099 or C2C.
  • It is a fully remote role that will need to be based in the U.S.
  • You must meet our U.S. Eligibility requirements for work authorization as noted under "Additional Information" at the bottom of the job description.
How you'll make an impact

Position Summary :

IAM Architect will serve as a key technical resource in our Global Cyber and Information Security (GCIS) organization. Responsible for defining An identity and access management methodology and standard that is aligned to the most current, emerging, secure and verified identity access practices and tooling. Ensuring recommendations enable the required level of protection for all internal and external users providing a zero trust methodology enabled through a globally consistent experience. Work closely with other Information Security colleagues, IT & Infrastructure organization and Business teams globally to provide guidance for viable identity management solutions and adoptable standards.

Key Responsibilities :

  • Define and create Identity Access Management architectural standards, models, design patterns and technical specification documents.
  • Assess, monitor and recommend improvements to global identity solutions to ensure and improve upon state of the art secure identity access and user identity repository protocols, tighten access management controls and balance costs associated with enabling secure customer and internal identity access.
  • Work closely with the security engineering team and assist in securely configuring patterns to enable zero trust and consistent verification across the global AJG domain product landscape.
  • Oversee and consult with project teams in business units to ensure adherence to security design patterns, protocols, best practices, authorizations and SLAs for identity and access procedures.
  • Designs and collaborates on solutions that balance business requirements with identity management security requirements ensuring the business process aligns to the recommended security services.
  • Proactively identifies technical and architectural risks of identity management services or solutions maintaining or managing users, commenting and/or providing safer identity management alternatives and presenting them for approval.
  • Participate in security technology evaluations, proof of concept testing and provide in-depth identity management analysis of the proposed solution including enhanced recommendations for PAM services.
  • Collaborate and partner with key GCIS IAM stakeholders to ensure alignment with the overall intended identity access management strategy, controls and design.
  • Partner with architects and engineers within infrastructure, network, application and business teams to ensure that identity solutions (custom or SaaS, internal or customer) are developed and managed as per GCIS policies and standards.
  • Assist security compliance partners with risk mitigation and governance activities associated to identity and access management.
  • Primary role is to support building identity access management architectural/solution designs and standard services supporting SaaS and custom applications.
  • Periodically provide security architecture reviews of identity access patterns and configurations of proposed identity access management solutions.

Participate on an IAM governance board providing reviews and recommendations for future state IAM, CIAM and Central Authorization services and standards.

About You

Required :

  • Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or related field
  • Minimum 3+ years of cybersecurity experience
  • Minimum 1+ years of experience reviewing detailed solution architectures utilizing identity access management solutions and providing feedback to the application and infrastructure teams
  • Experience with reviewing identity access management services, methodologies and patterns for custom and SaaS solutions
  • 1+ years of experience working with at least one IAM standard toolset (PING, ForgeRock, OKTA)
  • Strong knowledge of complex identity and access offerings involving MFA, biometrics, workflows, custom services and processes for user support on prem and in the cloud
  • Hands on experience working with IAM licenses and ability to negotiate with identity service providers to procure the most cost effective support for AJG
  • Demonstrated working experience in a regulated and globally distributed environment with various identity security risk accessibility points (on prem, laptop, mobile)
  • Knowledge and experience in enterprise architecture frameworks such as; TOGAF.
  • Knowledge and experience implementing security standards frameworks (NIST - CSF, ISO 27001, CSA CCM, PCI-DSS, GDPR)

Preferred :

  • At least one certification related to information security such as; CISSP, CCSP, AWS Solutions Architect, Azure Security.
  • Demonstrated knowledge of identity and access management security monitoring tools and testing procedures supporting internal and external access.
  • Insurance and risk management domain knowledge desirable.

Key Characteristics :

  • Strong communications skills - oral and written.
  • Self-starter with strong work ethic.
  • Flexible and resilient, handle various demands planned and unplanned.
  • Proven ability to handle multiple tasks and projects simultaneously.
  • Problem solver and desire to close issues, pragmatic and realistic with solutions.

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Compensation and benefits

We offer a competitive and comprehensive compensation package. The base salary range represents the anticipated low end and high end of the range for this position. The actual compensation will be influenced by a wide range of factors including, but not limited to previous experience, education, pay market/geography, complexity or scope, specialized skill set, lines of business/practice area, supply/demand, and scheduled hours. On top of a competitive salary, great teams and exciting career opportunities, we also offer a wide range of benefits.

Below are the minimum core benefits you’ll get, depending on your job level these benefits may improve:

  • Medical/dental/vision plans, which start from day one!
  • Life and accident insurance
  • 401(K) and Roth options
  • Tax-advantaged accounts (HSA, FSA)
  • Educational expense reimbursement
  • Paid parental leave

Other benefits include:

  • Digital mental health services (Talkspace)
  • Flexible work hours (availability varies by office and job function)
  • Training programs
  • Gallagher Thrive program – elevating your health through challenges, workshops and digital fitness programs for your overall wellbeing
  • Charitable matching gift program
  • And more...

We value inclusion and diversity

Click Here to review our U.S. Eligibility Requirements

Inclusion and diversity (I&D) is a core part of our business, and it’s embedded into the fabric of our organization. For more than 95 years, Gallagher has led with a commitment to sustainability and to support the communities where we live and work.

Gallagher embraces our employees’ diverse identities, experiences and talents, allowing us to better serve our clients and communities. We see inclusion as a conscious commitment and diversity as a vital strength. By embracing diversity in all its forms, we live out The Gallagher Way to its fullest.

Gallagher believes that all persons are entitled to equal employment opportunity and prohibits any form of discrimination by its managers, employees, vendors or customers based on race, color, religion, creed, gender (including pregnancy status), sexual orientation, gender identity (which includes transgender and other gender non-conforming individuals), gender expression, hair expression, marital status, parental status, age, national origin, ancestry, disability, medical condition, genetic information, veteran or military status, citizenship status, or any other characteristic protected (herein referred to as “protected characteristics”) by applicable federal, state, or local laws.

Equal employment opportunity will be extended in all aspects of the employer-employee relationship, including, but not limited to, recruitment, hiring, training, promotion, transfer, demotion, compensation, benefits, layoff, and termination. In addition, Gallagher will make reasonable accommodations to known physical or mental limitations of an otherwise qualified person with a disability, unless the accommodation would impose an undue hardship on the operation of our business.

Posted 2025-09-03

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