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Kanishak Varshney
Sr. Director, Information Security- Identity & Access Management at Ameriprise Financial Services, Inc.
Minneapolis, MN, United States
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Education:
Master of Science - MS
Information Science & Cybersecurity
Penn State College of Information Sciences and Technology
2018 : 2020
Bachelor of Technology (B.Tech.)
Electronics and Communications Engineering
College Of Technology, G.B.P.U.A&T, Pantnagar
2004 : 2008
Information Science & Cybersecurity
Penn State College of Information Sciences and Technology
2018 : 2020
Bachelor of Technology (B.Tech.)
Electronics and Communications Engineering
College Of Technology, G.B.P.U.A&T, Pantnagar
2004 : 2008
Experience:
- Lead the Customer IAM (CIAM) product team to enhance digital experience and security for our clients.
- Lead the workforce IAM product team to provide the frictionless user experience and enhance security posture for the organization.
- Lead the global IAM operations team to maintain high availability, resiliency, scalability and maintain IAM platform stability and improve operational efficiency.
- Lead the PKI team to provide enterprise wide security and confidentiality of data and transactions.
- Provide industry leading risk assessment, fraud protection, forensics, analytic technology, and machine learning.
- Collaborate with architecture to define the IAM roadmaps and implement the strategies.
2022 : Present
Ameriprise Financial Services, LLC
Senior Director Of Information Security
- Lead the complex enterprise architectures by developing, designing, configuring and implementing detailed engineering strategies/solutions that meet and/or exceed capability, flexibility, scalability, performance and reliability objectives for a variety of large projects, across multiple technologies, within identity & access management.
- Provide technical leadership to team/vendor/contractor resources, ensuring viability of designs, flawless execution, and seamless transition into the production environment.
- Oversee platform upgrades, platform certification, software/hardware compatibility reviews.
- Optimize infrastructure and application performance and response times.
- Partner with architecture to own and define strategic vision and roadmaps,including engineering/designing solutions with in IAM space.
2019 : 2022
Ameriprise Financial Services, Inc.
Director Of Engineering
- Expertise in design , detailed configuration , integration and support of IAM technologies including CA SSO , API gateway , MFA , CA directory , LDAP , AD.
- Responsible for planning, designing, reviewing and approving robust, stable, scalable and manageable designs.
- Perform problem diagnosis, initiate problem resolution and provide ongoing life-cycle support for technology deployments and upgrades.
- Create and maintain documentation of detailed design documents, diagrams, engineering specifications, build changes, models, troubleshooting and support guides, systems metrics, and overall project information (including key deliverables).
- Responsible for the technical correctness and completeness of engineering designs and artifacts.
- Ensure that build activities are completed per engineering diagrams that were drafted and approved for the project.
- Manage effective relationships and work in partnership with leadership, team members, vendors, and contractors to deliver robust technical solutions ensuring service level commitments and project time lines are maintained.
- Provide technical expertise, direction and prioritization of work to team members ensuring successful project implementation and outstanding service delivery.
- Utilize performance data and historical metrics to effectively : plan for growth needs; plan upgrades, migrations, optimizations and new implementations; identify and resolve efficiency issues; and improve overall functionality.
- Recommend, deploy and document design strategies and solutions for software/hardware/network engineering problems, based upon comprehensive and thoughtful analysis of business goals, objectives, requirements and existing technologies within IAM,
-Participate and provide input into the continual refinement of processes, policies and best practices to ensure optimal performance and availability of technologies within IAM.
-Continuously develop specialized knowledge and technical subject matter expertise in IAM.
2018 : 2019
Ameriprise Financial Services, Inc.
Senior Design Engineer
2015 : 2018
Ameriprise Financial Services, Inc.
Design Engineer - Identity, Access & Security tools Management
2014 : 2015
Cognizant Technology Solutions
Senior Associate
- Lead the workforce IAM product team to provide the frictionless user experience and enhance security posture for the organization.
- Lead the global IAM operations team to maintain high availability, resiliency, scalability and maintain IAM platform stability and improve operational efficiency.
- Lead the PKI team to provide enterprise wide security and confidentiality of data and transactions.
- Provide industry leading risk assessment, fraud protection, forensics, analytic technology, and machine learning.
- Collaborate with architecture to define the IAM roadmaps and implement the strategies.
2022 : Present
Ameriprise Financial Services, LLC
Senior Director Of Information Security
- Lead the complex enterprise architectures by developing, designing, configuring and implementing detailed engineering strategies/solutions that meet and/or exceed capability, flexibility, scalability, performance and reliability objectives for a variety of large projects, across multiple technologies, within identity & access management.
- Provide technical leadership to team/vendor/contractor resources, ensuring viability of designs, flawless execution, and seamless transition into the production environment.
- Oversee platform upgrades, platform certification, software/hardware compatibility reviews.
- Optimize infrastructure and application performance and response times.
- Partner with architecture to own and define strategic vision and roadmaps,including engineering/designing solutions with in IAM space.
2019 : 2022
Ameriprise Financial Services, Inc.
Director Of Engineering
- Expertise in design , detailed configuration , integration and support of IAM technologies including CA SSO , API gateway , MFA , CA directory , LDAP , AD.
- Responsible for planning, designing, reviewing and approving robust, stable, scalable and manageable designs.
- Perform problem diagnosis, initiate problem resolution and provide ongoing life-cycle support for technology deployments and upgrades.
- Create and maintain documentation of detailed design documents, diagrams, engineering specifications, build changes, models, troubleshooting and support guides, systems metrics, and overall project information (including key deliverables).
- Responsible for the technical correctness and completeness of engineering designs and artifacts.
- Ensure that build activities are completed per engineering diagrams that were drafted and approved for the project.
- Manage effective relationships and work in partnership with leadership, team members, vendors, and contractors to deliver robust technical solutions ensuring service level commitments and project time lines are maintained.
- Provide technical expertise, direction and prioritization of work to team members ensuring successful project implementation and outstanding service delivery.
- Utilize performance data and historical metrics to effectively : plan for growth needs; plan upgrades, migrations, optimizations and new implementations; identify and resolve efficiency issues; and improve overall functionality.
- Recommend, deploy and document design strategies and solutions for software/hardware/network engineering problems, based upon comprehensive and thoughtful analysis of business goals, objectives, requirements and existing technologies within IAM,
-Participate and provide input into the continual refinement of processes, policies and best practices to ensure optimal performance and availability of technologies within IAM.
-Continuously develop specialized knowledge and technical subject matter expertise in IAM.
2018 : 2019
Ameriprise Financial Services, Inc.
Senior Design Engineer
2015 : 2018
Ameriprise Financial Services, Inc.
Design Engineer - Identity, Access & Security tools Management
2014 : 2015
Cognizant Technology Solutions
Senior Associate
Company:
Ameriprise Financial Services, LLC
Years of Experience:
16
Skills
Design Engineering, Enterprise Architecture, Federation, Identity & Access Management, Information Security, IT Strategy, Java, Multi-factor Authentication, SAML 2.0, Security, Shell Scripting, Siteminder, SOAP, Solution Architecture, SSO, Unix, Web Services, Web Services API, Identity & Access
About
Experienced Professional with a demonstrated history of working in the financial services industry. Skilled in leading the Customer IAM (CIAM), Workforce/Enterprise IAM, Global IAM Operations, Cryptography (PKI) teams. Experience in leading access management, SSO , API gateway , API security, SOA, IAM , MFA , LDAP , AD , Azure AD, PKI, Identity management , Information security, Design Engineering , SOAP, Enterprise Architecture, SAML 2.0, OIDC, OAuth, Cloud Strategy, AWS, Azure and IT Strategy. Strong engineering professional with a Bachelor of Technology (B. Tech.) and Masters in Cybersecurity.
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