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Agent guide: [/agents.md](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/agents.md). --- # Information Barriers Consultant - **Company:** G MASS US CORP. - **Location:** New York, NY, United States - **Salary:** $260,000.0 - $286,000.0 - **Contract:** Temporary to permanent - **Skills:** Active Directory, JIRA, Unix, Cyber Security, Identity and Access Management, Microsoft SharePoint, Systems Architecture, Firewalls (Computer Science) - **Published:** June 14, 2026 - **Apply:** https://www.indeed.com/viewjob?jk=eda178db8036cb2c ## About the Role Do you have experience in Systems architecture within technology?, * Direct experience managing an information barriers programme is strongly preferred; control room, compliance operations, access governance, or identity and access management backgrounds are all considered * Experience within a regulated financial services environment; hedge fund or broker-dealer background is advantageous but not required * Comfortable engaging engineers and technology teams on systems architecture, logical access separation, and entitlement configuration without needing a technical background * Proven ability to operate with persistence across a large, matrixed organisation, chasing resolution from senior and diverse stakeholders across business, technology, risk, and operations * Highly organised with the ability to manage a broad, concurrent BAU workload without dropping detail * Confident enough to flag violations and hold the line on compliance requirements across the firm * Familiarity with JIRA is advantageous but not essential ## Description * Own the end-to-end management of the firm's information barrier controls across both the hedge fund and broker-dealer entities, ensuring all controls remain accurate and fit for purpose * Coordinate the addition of new information barriers across systems and teams, following an established playbook and ensuring all relevant parties are engaged through to completion * Monitor daily exception reports, investigating anomalies with system owners and determining whether activity constitutes a breach or misconfiguration * Administer electronic IB controls across Active Directory, Unix groups, JIRA, SharePoint, and service accounts, ensuring access permissions accurately reflect barrier configurations * Manage physical IB controls including badge and door access, floor and building separation, and weekly desk move approvals * Oversee the employee transfer nuking process, reviewing transfers across divisions, assessing whether an information barrier is crossed, and deactivating and reissuing system access accordingly * Administer new department IB assignments, reviewing and approving barrier configurations for new teams as they are created * Manage the Shared Resources Dashboard, tracking technology infrastructure shared between the hedge fund and broker-dealer entities, reviewing new requests, maintaining existing entries, and removing resources no longer in use * Review and approve new software requests from a compliance perspective, as one of three reviewers alongside information security and engineering * Administer entitlements across the Legal and Compliance function, ensuring access rights are granted at the appropriate level within internal access management systems * Conduct annual audits of Compliance Firewall groups and the Shared Resources Dashboard on a sampling basis to confirm controls remain fit for purpose * Perform periodic testing of IB Active Directory and Unix groups to verify that technical controls are functioning as intended * Track workstreams and report on team accomplishments to senior leadership via JIRA, and act as a central coordination figure within the team ## Related Videos - [Building with IBM Bob](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/videos/100275-building-with-ibm-bob) - [Thinking Differently - How to Make Money from Cyber Attacks & Cheats](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/videos/745-thinking-differently-how-to-make-money-from-cyber-attacks-cheats) - [WeAreDevelopers LIVE - Node and Package Security](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/videos/2138-wearedevelopers-live-node-and-package-security) - [Improving quality with Agentic AI with Rovo Dev and Xray](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/videos/2005-improving-quality-with-agentic-ai-with-rovo-dev-and-xray) - [Cyber Security: Small, and Large!](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/videos/259-cyber-security-small-and-large) - [The Time Paradox: Building Timezone-Safe Python/Django Applications](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/videos/1915-the-time-paradox-building-timezone-safe-python-django-applications) ## Related Articles - [UK Business Culture and Etiquette](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/magazine/326-uk-business-culture-and-etiquette) - [Dev Digest 121 - AI goes offline](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/magazine/456-dev-digest-121-ai-goes-offline) - [Events like RSAC Get You CISOs. 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