Cybersecurity Director - IAM Emerging Tech & Solution Design

Overview This role leads the emerging technology space for IAM, evaluating multiple products and capabilities in support of business growth, support all critical cross functional AOP programs collaborating across business and application teams. Setup the right standards for IAM. Partner with AI team and implement IAM for AI and AI in IAM across services. Drive Non-Human Identity (NHI) discovery, visibility and remediation with central dashboards across systems and global identities.

Lead the AI Agent Security, identifying the right platforms and setting up and sustain the right solutions to embed security from start enabling trust across the enterprise AI Agent implementations. In addition, lead the AOP efforts across IAM and lead the IAM solution collaborating with relevant teams on critical global programs like One NA, IT/OT etc. Lead the innovation and emerging technology evaluations across new and existing vendors and setting up new capabilities in the IAM space to support the business growth for PepsiCo. Also expand the organization to build a central team across IAM services bringing in automation and optimization across processes. Responsibilities This is a highly complex role driving solutions and technology evolution for Identity and Access Management (IAM) services across the Enterprise. This role requires evaluating new capabilities and solutions across IAM, interaction with global Architecture, Cross functional, application and stake holder teams globally to delivery and solution ensuring compliance with standards. This role will require managing the solutions delivered end to end with a high focus on strategy, build, delivery and execution with some operational support including decision making aligning with leadership and key stake holders.

Lead the emerging technologies in security across all Identity and Access Management (IAM) services Evaluate new technologies in IAM space including conducting proof of concepts (POCs) Lead AI solutions for IAM services driving innovation and transformation Establishes AI agent security framework and roadmap that aligns with security foundations and PepsiCo’s overarching enterprise vision Drive technical solutions across projects and programs for IAM tools and services Responsible for evaluations, roadmaps, architectures of highly scalable Identity, authentication, Directory, privileged access, Non Human Identities (NHI), AI for IAM, IAM for AI, Federation and Single Sign On services involving enterprise, B2B and B2C identity requirements. Work closely with design and implementation engineers and drive building solutions across common IAM services Partner with technology and security teams across PepsiCo to provide technical expertise, design guidance and drive best practices. Catalog risk embedded in legacy implementations and help define the path to industry leading secure designs and services Create and deliver effective presentations that inform PepsiCo Leadership teams to ultimately drive business relevant information security decisions. Establish appropriate stakeholder relationships that facilitate improvements in the architect’s domain. Gather requirements and guide / recommend the right integration pattern for applications needing services, taking into consideration the impact to the environment and standards set in PepsiCo across AOP projects Drive technical integrations across IAM and ensure the right architecture/design is implemented in enabling the business partnering across appropriate architects and leads Developing general purpose services, usable by a variety of authorized systems and applications Interaction with application teams to gather requirements, design and deliver solution to integrate with PepsiCo IAM products Advocate secure computing practices and procedures and communicate Information Security best practices throughout the company. Ability to troubleshoot and resolve