Associate Director DDIT ISC SecOps Access&Auth.ISC Access Management & Authentication

Job Description Summary

Job Description

Key Responsibilities:

• Oversees identity and access management services offered to customers inside and outside of Novartis global IT Infrastructure.
• Oversees processes and resources delivering identity and access management services, ensuring the coordination of these teams in overall planning activities, service delivery, and issue resolution.
• Supports that all global supporting components of the service, including any associated SLAs, OLAs and UCs are managed as an integrated service.
• Supports and delivers overall continuous improvement, cost reduction and performance of the services.
• Assists with the regional and global monitoring, reviewing and reporting of performance against the SLA/OLA service and/or portfolio.
• Performs service reviews, qualifications and self assessments to e.g. ensure conformance with service-, quality-, audit, compliance, security and SOX requirements and industry best practices (Inhouse Operations, Third Party Suppliers and external Service Providers).
• Assists with the planning, (with Architecture, and Governance) to establish the overall services and the services delivery roadmaps.
• Ability to get involved with engineering and/or development activities to ensure timely delivery of objectives.

Essential Requirement:

• University working and thinking level, degree in computer science or comparable education and experience with 10 (or more) years of IT experience.

• Strong hands-on experience in Java, Spring Boot, React JS, Angular JS and REST API. 

• Experience using AI development tools such as Claude Code, GitHub Copilot or similar AI-assisted development tools to assist with coding, debugging, testing, and documentation.

• Good knowledge of Hibernate and Oracle DB.

• Good understanding of Identity and Access Management concepts.

• Oracle Identity Manager (OIM) developer experience or experience in Oracle Access Manager (OAM) or Oracle Unified Directory (OUD)  is added advantage.

• Strong problem-solving and analytical skills.Good communication and collaboration skills.
• Experience is managing 24*7 Engineering/developer activities. Experience with regulatory frameworks, such as SOX, GxP, or similar.

You’ll receive: You can find everything you need to know about our benefits and rewards in the Novartis Life Handbook. https://www.novartis.com/careers/benefits-rewards

Commitment to Diversity and Inclusion:  
Novartis is committed to building an outstanding, inclusive work environment and diverse teams' representative of the patients and communities we serve.  

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