BXTI - SVP - Identity Platform – Team Lead & Architect

Blackstone is the world’s largest alternative asset manager. Blackstone seeks to deliver compelling returns for institutional and individual investors by strengthening the companies in which the firm invests. Blackstone’s over $1.3 trillion in assets under management include global investment strategies focused on real estate, private equity, credit, infrastructure, life sciences, growth equity, secondaries and hedge funds. Further information is available at www.blackstone.com. Follow @blackstone on LinkedIn, X (Twitter), and Instagram. 

Firm Overview

Blackstone is the world’s largest alternative asset manager. Blackstone seeks to deliver compelling returns for institutional and individual investors by strengthening the companies in which the firm invests. Blackstone’s over $1.3 trillion in assets under management include global investment strategies focused on real estate, private equity, credit, infrastructure, life sciences, growth equity, secondaries and hedge funds. Further information is available at www.blackstone.com. Follow @blackstone on LinkedIn, X (Twitter), and Instagram. 

Business Unit

BXTI

Business Description

Blackstone Technology & Innovations (BXTi) is the technology team at the core of each of Blackstone’s businesses and new growth initiatives. Serving both internal and external clients, we work to build the next generation of systems that manage risk, create efficiency and improve transparency within the firm and across our broad community of investors and portfolio companies.  

BXTi is nimble and entrepreneurial – our open, iterative design processes and rapid pace of development mean that everyone on the team has the opportunity to make an impact from day one. We are problem solvers who can take projects from idea to implementation. We believe in active mentoring and developing excellence. We collaborate to find the best answers for our customers and for Blackstone. We are critical to the firm maintaining its competitive edge. 

Job Title

Senior Vice President, Identity Platform – Team Lead & Architect

Job Description

The SVP, Identity Platform – Team Lead & Architect is accountable for the strategy, architecture and delivery of the firm’s enterprise identity and access management (IAM) platforms. This leader owns identity as a core, firm wide capability—enabling secure access for employees, customers, applications, APIs and emerging AI systems—while balancing security, developer experience, regulatory requirements, and business velocity.

This role combines leadership, deep technical architecture and hands-on platform stewardship. The SVP will lead a high performing identity engineering team, set long term architectural direction and partner closely with Cybersecurity, Cloud & Platform Engineering, Application Engineering, Data and Legal/Compliance.

Key Responsibilities

Strategy & Platform Ownership

• Define and own the enterprise identity vision, roadmap and reference architecture across workforce, application, customer and machine identities.

• Establish identity as a productized platform, with clear service offerings, SLAs, APIs, and self‑service capabilities.

• Drive modernization toward cloud‑native, zero‑trust, API‑first and policy‑driven identity architectures.

• Ensure identity strategy supports AI platforms, automation and machine‑to‑machine access at scale.

Architecture & Technical Leadership

• Serve as the lead architect for identity, authentication, authorization and access policy across the firm.

• Design and implement:

  • Authentication

  • Authorization (RBAC, ABAC, policy engines)

  • Token services, federation and identity brokering

  • Secrets, credentials and machine identities

• Define organizational standards for using OIDC, OAuth2, SAML, SCIM, and emerging identity patterns.

• Ensure architectures meet availability, resiliency, performance, integration and auditability requirements at enterprise scale.

Engineering & Delivery Leadership

• Lead and grow a world‑class identity engineering organization (product managers, engineers, operators).

• Oversee delivery of critical identity services used by hundreds of applications and platforms.

• Partner with platform and application teams to embed identity correctly, not bolt it on.

Security, Risk & Compliance

• Partner with Cybersecurity to ensure identity controls align with zero‑trust, least privilege, and defense‑in‑depth principles.

• Ensure compliance with relevant regulatory, privacy, and audit requirements.

• Lead incident response and post‑incident improvements for identity‑related events.

• Continuously evaluate vendor and open‑source solutions for risk, scalability, and strategic fit.

Executive Stakeholder Engagement

• Act as the firm’s senior identity authority with executives, auditors, and regulators.

• Translate complex technical concepts into clear business and risk narratives.

• Influence roadmaps across technology and business functions to ensure identity is foundational, not reactive.

Required Qualifications

Experience

• 15+ years in identity, security, or platform engineering, with significant experience operating at enterprise scale.

• Proven experience leading large, business-critical platforms used across a broad range of application portfolios.

• Prior experience at Director / VP / SVP level or equivalent senior leadership role.

Technical Depth

• Deep, hands‑on expertise in:

  • Enterprise IAM and identity platforms

  • OIDC, OAuth2, SAML, SCIM

  • Authorization models (RBAC, ABAC, policy engines)

  • Cloud identity patterns (AWS, Azure, hybrid)

• Strong understanding of distributed systems, high‑availability platforms, and secure API design.

• Experience integrating identity into developer platforms, CI/CD pipelines, and AI systems.

Leadership & Communication

• Demonstrated experience leading senior engineers and architects while remaining technically credible.

• Exceptional communication skills and effectiveness in influencing C-suite executives and senior business leaders.

• Strong product mindset—balancing security, usability, and speed.

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience modernizing or replacing legacy identity platforms.

• Background in financial services, regulated environments, or large global enterprises.

• Familiarity with policy‑as‑code, infrastructure‑as‑code, and platform product management models.

• Experience supporting external partners, portfolio companies, or multi‑tenant ecosystems.

What Success Looks Like

• Identity is viewed as a strategic enabler, not a bottleneck.

• Applications and platforms adopt identity consistently and correctly by default.

• Security posture improves while developer and user friction decreases.

• The identity platform scales confidently to support new businesses, AI workloads, and regulatory demands.

Blackstone is committed to providing equal employment opportunities to all employees and applicants for employment without regard to race, color, creed, religion, sex, pregnancy, national origin, ancestry, citizenship status, age, marital or partnership status, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, disability, genetic predisposition, a or military status, status as a victim of domestic violence, a sex offense or stalking, or any other class or status in accordance with applicable federal, state and local laws. This policy applies to all terms and conditions of employment, including but not limited to hiring, placement, promotion, termination, transfer, leave of absence, compensation, and training. All Blackstone employees, including but not limited to recruiting personnel and hiring managers, are required to abide by this policy.

The duties and responsibilities described here are not exhaustive and additional assignments, duties, or responsibilities may be required of this position.  Assignments, duties, and responsibilities may be changed at any time, with or without notice, by Blackstone in its sole discretion.

Blackstone is committed to providing equal employment opportunities to all employees and applicants for employment without regard to race, color, creed, religion, sex, pregnancy, national origin, ancestry, citizenship status, age, marital or partnership status, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, disability, genetic predisposition, veteran or military status, status as a victim of domestic violence, a sex offense or stalking, or any other class or status in accordance with applicable federal, state and local laws. This policy applies to all terms and conditions of employment, including but not limited to hiring, placement, promotion, termination, transfer, leave of absence, compensation, and training.  All Blackstone employees, including but not limited to recruiting personnel and hiring managers, are required to abide by this policy.

If you need a reasonable accommodation to complete your application, please contact Human Resources at 212-583-5000 (US), +44 (0)20 7451 4000 (EMEA) or +852 3656 8600 (APAC).

Depending on the position, you may be required to obtain certain securities licenses if you are in a client facing role and/or if you are engaged in the following:

• Attending client meetings where you are discussing Blackstone products and/or and client questions;

• Marketing Blackstone funds to new or existing clients;

• Supervising or training securities licensed employees;

• Structuring or creating Blackstone funds/products; and

• Advising on marketing plans prepared by a sales team or developing and/or contributing information for marketing materials.

Note: The above list is not the exhaustive list of activities requiring securities licenses and there may be roles that require review on a case-by-case basis.  Please speak with your Blackstone Recruiting contact with any questions.

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