Imran Umar Email & Phone Number

United Kingdom

Greenwood Village, Colorado, Us

Watford, Gb

Reporting to the CTO, CISO and the CIO, I am accountable for enabling growth, reducing risk, driving efficiency, and developing talent across the IT organisation. Maturing and Driving the Enterprise Architecture practice, including Security, Application, Information, Integration and Infrastructure Architecture & Enablement. Collaborating with senior stakeholders and various domains across the global organisation to deliver Global standards, patterns, non-functional requirements, IT strategies and tools to support compliance, audit and evaluate impact of change in our landscape.• Increase process efficiency by using Lean Six Sigma methodology and tools including Confluence, JIRA, ServiceNow, LeanIX, Ardoq, Alation among others.• Reduced Risk by introducing a more collaborative and consist new technology assessment process.• Successfully managed, tracked and supported Internal and External Audit initiatives.• Presenting and facilitating with Global senior executives our EA strategy, plans, roadmaps, initiatives, insights on how we are “doing the right work, the right way and at the right time”.• Achieved creating a globally federated architecture organisation, brought together by a community of practice.• Developed highly skilled and sought after talent, enabling job rotations, facilitating early in career resources and building a talent pipeline, including various internal team promotions and moves, including my own focused leadership development.• I was also part of our "Women In Tech" programme, facilitating roundtable sessions and promoting a collaborative and inclusive culture.

Watford, Gb

As the AVP of Security Architecture, I played a pivotal role in fortifying our organisation's security posture, supporting the Security Architecture team, and driving initiatives that enhance security, reduce risk, and foster growth and talent development of our Security Architects. I created our visionary approach to security architecture, ensuring that security standards and quality are embedded within the organisation. I had to facilitate, coordinate and collaborate other tower leaders as well as directly supporting our CISO and the Security Tower.Leadership and Team Support:I led, mentored, and supported the Security Architecture team, fostering a culture of continuous improvement and innovation as well as enabling the growth and development of team members through effective coaching, mentoring, and structured development programs, actively supporting promotions and performance cycles, ensuring fair and constructive feedback and career progression opportunities.Strategic Security Initiatives:I developed and implemented security architecture strategies that align with the organisation's overall business goals and objectives as well as identifying and mitigating security risks, ensuring that robust security measures are in place to protect our assets and data.Security Standards and Quality Assurance:I also had to establish and maintain security architecture frameworks, standards, and best practices, providing ideas and innovation to how we manage and maintain our artefacts, as well as ensure that security standards are consistently applied and adhered to across all projects and initiatives.Innovation and Growth Enablement:I identified opportunities to leverage emerging technologies and innovative solutions to enhance security and support business growth, driving the adoption of security technologies and practices that reduce risk and improve overall security posture.

Watford, Gb

As the Manager of Security Architecture, my role was to support the Security Architecture team to create and maintain our Security Architecture Artefacts. This included our Enterprise security and configuration standards, collaborating with our security engineers to bring in new security technology, create and maintain our security patterns for use with our dev teams, creating and driving our security architecture strategy, and creating and maintaining our security capability frameworks and roadmaps aimed at improving security, reducing risk, and enabling business growth.I supported the Security Architecture team, promoting a culture of continuous improvement and innovation. I supported the performance management processes and supported the team by providing day-to-day guidance and structure to our processes.My role was to also collaborate among the other teams to ensure that our artefacts were suitable and of the appropriate quality to serve the organisation. I would also work together with the other domains to support any strategy creation and how we can enable a more security aware culture.

Watford, Gb

As a senior security architect, my role was to create and maintain our Security Architecture Artefacts. This included our Enterprise security and configuration standards, creating new technology assessments for our security products, working with our security engineers to assess the security controls of our solutions and products, as well as our ecommerce websites. I would create and maintain our security patterns for use with our dev teams, updating and maintaining our security reference architecture, security capability frameworks and roadmaps aimed at improving security, reducing risk, and enabling business growth.

Worldwide, Oo

As a Senior Manager I was responsible and accountable for creating bids and proposals which successfully led to delivering Identity and Access Management (IAM) strategies, including privilege and consumer IAM, assessments, risk analysis of current IAM methods, Data Encryption and creation of roadmaps and strategies. • Conducted IAM assessments and risk analysis of current IAM methods and strategies • Developed roadmaps and costings for IAM Capabilities • Led proposal and bid development processes and secured training for team members • Key clients included: Legal and General, Deloitte Business Security, BGL Group, Old Mutual Group

Gb

Specialising in crafting proposals and bis for prospective clients as well as designed and implemented strategies, roadmaps, and architectures for both Consumer and Enterprise identity domains. This involved evaluating client strategies, developing new ones, and fostering alliances with software vendors. I've contributed to the development of standards like User Managed Access (UMA) and expanded our IAM practice globally, including creating and implementing an IAM academy curriculum• Specialised Cyber Security Manager focusing on Identity and Access Management (IAM)• Crafted and implemented strategies, roadmaps, and architectures for Consumer and Enterprise identity domains• Evaluated client strategies, developed new ones, and fostered alliances with software vendors• Contributed to the development of standards such as User Managed Access (UMA)• Expanded IAM practice globally, including creating and implementing an IAM academy curriculum• Experience spans various industries locally and internationally, including South Africa and the Middle East• Key clients: Deutsche Bank, Nationwide Building Society, University of Reading, Vodafone, Majid Al Futtaim, Pioneer Foods

Montreal, Quebec, Ca

Solution owner and architect working on a federated identity management solution using SAML and Microsoft active directory federated services together with setting up certificate services to manage authentication and encryption, across the solution.

Montreal, Qc, Ca

Working on a projects doing security assurance, risk and gap analyisis, identity and access management as well as application security assurance.

Armonk, New York, Ny, Us

Working as Shared ID and Secondary controls process owner for UK&I. I was responsible and accountable for the controls effectiveness of our Privileged Access Management solution. I designed and implemented the processes for how we manage our identity and access management controls, ensuring they met our audit and regulatory requirements, including the logging and monitoring of any events. I created the training for our compliance team, who were based in Poland. I implemented the controls for the UK and Ireland accounts that successfully passed many internal and external audit assessments.

Armonk, New York, Ny, Us

Designing and implementing a privilege access management solution using Cyberark, to manage our UK and Ireland accounts. This included designing as well as implementing, configuring and building the servers and applications, creating and requesting firewall changes through change management processes and documenting the solution configuration as well as responding to Internal Audit queries.

Armonk, New York, Ny, Us

Armonk, New York, Ny, Us

Deskside Support Team Leader for the AB InBev Account

Armonk, New York, Ny, Us

Deputy Team Leader on the Astrazeneca account.

Armonk, New York, Ny, Us

Project Manager on the Case New Holland Account.

Stockholm, Se

Batchelor Of Science, Computer Science

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