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Melbourne, Victoria, Australia
Hybrid
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About Vanguard
More than 45 years ago, John C. Bogle a visionary to start an investment company that did things differently. A company with no external shareholders. Where all the profits were invested back into the business and used to lower costs. Evidently, it was as bold as it was brilliant. To this day, Vanguard Group still has no external shareholders. That means no share prices to protect, and no profits to generate for outside owners.
Today, Vanguard is one of the world’s largest investment management companies, serving more than 50 million investors worldwide. For more than 30 years Vanguard Australia has been supporting individual investors, financial advisers, and superannuation members to achieve their long-term financial goals.
What You'll Do
As a Senior Manager, Cloud Security Engineering you will shape the future of customer identity services by driving strategy, architecture, engineering excellence, and operational resilience across our security and identity platforms. You will lead a team of leaders and technical specialists while partnering closely with business, technology, risk, privacy, and global stakeholders to deliver secure, scalable, and customer-centric solutions.
Role Overview:
Leading and developing managers and multidisciplinary engineering teams responsible for CIAM services and operations.
Defining and executing the security technology roadmap focused on customer identity capabilities.
Overseeing the design, implementation, integration, and operation of authentication, authorisation, and identity lifecycle solutions.
Ensuring the secure, reliable, and resilient operation of production identity services.
Establishing security standards, architecture patterns, and control requirements to protect customer identities and data
Establishes local Vanguard Australia security architecture, security standards, control requirements, and assurance practices to protect customer identities and data. Oversees authentication and authorisation patterns, federation, token and session management, privileged administration, audit logging, privacy controls, and risk-based access decisions.
Partnering with local and global stakeholders to shape enterprise identity and security strategy.
Driving strategic technology initiatives, platform modernisation, and continuous improvement across identity services.
Key Responsibilities/Qualifications:
The ideal candidate will bring:
10+ years of related technology, cyber security, or identity and access management experience, including significant leadership experience managing managers and multidisciplinary technical teams.
Demonstrated experience leading CIAM strategy, architecture, engineering, implementation, and production operations for large-scale customer-facing digital services.
Strong knowledge of customer authentication, authorisation, identity proofing, federation, identity lifecycle management, privacy, fraud risk, and modern identity standards and protocols.
Proven ability to develop leaders, shape high-performing organisations, manage complex stakeholder relationships, and translate business outcomes into secure and resilient identity capabilities.
Undergraduate degree in a related field or the equivalent combination of training and experience.
Inclusion Statement
Vanguard’s continued commitment to diversity and inclusion is firmly rooted in our culture. Every decision we make to best serve our clients, crew (internally employees are referred to as crew), and communities is guided by one simple statement: “Do the right thing.”
We believe that a critical aspect of doing the right thing requires building diverse, inclusive, and highly effective teams of individuals who are as unique as the clients they serve. We empower our crew to contribute their distinct strengths to achieving Vanguard’s core purpose through our values.
When all crew members feel valued and included, our ability to collaborate and innovate is amplified, and we are united in delivering on Vanguard’s core purpose.
Our core purpose: To take a stand for all investors, to treat them fairly, and to give them the best chance for investment success.
Special Factors
Vanguard is not offering visa sponsorship for this position.
How We Work
Vanguard has implemented a hybrid working model for the majority of our crew members, designed to capture the benefits of enhanced flexibility while enabling in-person learning, collaboration, and connection. We believe our mission-driven and highly collaborative culture is a critical enabler to support long-term client outcomes and enrich the employee experience.