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Lead design and delivery of enterprise IAM solutions across authentication, authorization, PAM, secrets management, identity governance, and privileged access. Own IAM outcomes for migrations, define reference architectures and integration patterns, execute SSO/MFA/federation/PAM configurations, ensure security/compliance, perform testing and risk remediation, develop automation and accelerators, mentor junior engineers, and document architectures and operational procedures while collaborating with application, cloud, and security teams.

Lead and execute enterprise patch management across Windows, Linux and non-Windows environments using tools like Tanium, Ansible, Puppet, SCCM, Ivanti and Foreman. Coordinate monthly and emergency patch deployments, analyze vulnerability scans, perform compliance checks, manage incidents/changes and maintain patch documentation and master records. Support global data centers and participate in CAB and high-impact vulnerability responses.

Lead installation, maintenance, evaluation, and migration of ISV mainframe products on IBM z/OS. Manage SMP/E-based software lifecycle, perform product comparisons and migrations, troubleshoot ISV integrations, develop migration runbooks, and support performance tuning, capacity planning, and incident resolution with application teams and vendors.

Provide transactional legal support for global sales and outsourcing deals: draft, review, negotiate complex commercial agreements, assess and mitigate legal and business risk, coordinate internal stakeholders, project-manage deals to close, advise on contract disputes, train teams, and improve contracting processes to enable revenue generation.

Lead commercialization of AI-enabled mainframe managed services by productizing platform capabilities, defining pricing and packaging, owning roadmap and lifecycle, aligning cross-functional stakeholders, and enabling sales to scale repeatable, profitable offers driven by automation and platform innovations (Telum/Spyre).

Manage and maintain ForgeRock IAM suite (AM, IDM, DS, IG), ensure high availability, perform L3 support and root-cause analysis, develop custom authentication scripts/plugins, configure MFA and conditional access, integrate directories (AD/Azure AD), and automate deployments with CI/CD and container tooling.

Lead enterprise new-logo sales strategy and a high-performing team to acquire large clients. Drive complex transformation deals across mainframe, hybrid IT, and cloud, manage pipeline, forecasting, pricing, contracts, and executive relationships, and collaborate cross-functionally to ensure successful onboarding and delivery.

Lead installation, maintenance, tuning, and troubleshooting of z/OS and related system software. Support incidents, changes, and complex projects, guide junior staff, liaise with vendors, and participate in on-call rotations to ensure mainframe availability and stability.

Lead a global strategic pursuits function, managing Solution Principals and Architects to win large multi-tower deals. Build C-suite relationships, drive solution architecture and delivery, scale pursuit operations, establish KPIs and thought leadership, and ensure measurable business impact from cloud, hybrid IT, and modernization engagements.

Senior technical authority for IBM AIX and Power Systems architecture, engineering, migration, performance tuning, automation, and resiliency. Lead large-scale OS and hardware migrations, own lifecycle management, incident escalation/RCA, HA/DR design, and mentor L3 engineers while ensuring governance, compliance, and vendor coordination.