Manager, Identity Engineering

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Job Summary
The Identity Engineering Manager is a senior technical leader responsible for evolving and scaling the enterprise Identity and Access Management (IAM) and Privileged Access Management (PAM) platforms. This role owns the identity services that underpin security, compliance, and digital transformation across the organization.
Rather than focusing on day-to-day access operations, this leader drives future-state identity capabilities, establishes engineering standards, and partners with Security, Architecture, and Platform teams to enable secure, automated, and policy-driven access at enterprise scale.
Responsibilities

• Own the enterprise IAM & PAM engineering delivery, multi‑year roadmaps aligned to Zero Trust, cloud adoption, and regulatory requirements.
• Provide oversight and subject‑matter leadership for user entitlement reviews, including review scope, frequency, and risk-based criteria, validating findings, and partnering with analysts and control owners to remediate access gaps and strengthen access governance.
• Lead and mentor a team of identity engineers, fostering a culture of automation, reliability engineering, and continuous improvement.
• Serve as the architectural authority for identity services, including authentication, authorization, federation, and privileged access patterns.
• Drive the evolution of Role-Based Access Control (RBAC) and access governance as scalable, policy-driven platforms rather than manual processes.
• Partner with Security, Compliance, Legal, and Enterprise Architecture to translate regulatory and risk requirements into engineered identity capabilities.
• Establish standards and guardrails for application onboarding, entitlement modeling, and lifecycle integration across the enterprise.
• Influence and align with adjacent platform teams (cloud, infrastructure, application engineering) to ensure identity is embedded by design.
• Champion modernization initiatives such as API-driven provisioning, identity federation expansion, and privileged access automation.
• Represent Identity Engineering in enterprise forums, architecture reviews, and strategic initiatives.
• Manager runs teams and delivery. They may support strategy delivery but director+ is responsible for strategy.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science or equivalent experience
• Demonstrated experience leading enterprise-scale IAM or security platform engineering teams
• Deep expertise in IAM and PAM architectures, including identity federation, access governance, and privileged access models
• 7+ years of experience in identity services
• Experience leading analysts and auditors on user entitlement reviews and access certifications, including interpretation of findings and translation into durable IAM and RBAC improvements
• Strong understanding of access governance concepts such as RBAC, entitlement modeling, separation of duties, and attestation frameworks
• Experience setting technical standards and architectural direction for identity services across a large organization
• Background in engineering or architecture roles supporting IAM/PAM platforms, with an emphasis on automation and scalability
• Ability to translate business, risk, and compliance drivers into durable technical solutions
• Experience with onboarding applications for access to entitlements, provisioning, and de-provisioning of users
• Participation in technical research and development to enable continuing innovation for Cyber Security and Information Risk management

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