Senior Manager, Identity & Access Management

Accountabilities:

• Lead the development and execution of the enterprise IAM strategy, roadmap, and capability maturity plan across authentication, privileged access, access governance, and identity lifecycle services.
• Establish identity security architecture direction, implementation standards, reusable patterns, reference designs, and control frameworks for workforce identities, privileged accounts, service accounts, application access, and cloud integrations.
• Develop automated and policy-driven controls covering joiner, mover, leaver, access-request, access-review, provisioning, deprovisioning, and privileged-access processes.
• Lead identity risk reviews, access governance assessments, and senior-level risk discussions involving critical systems, privileged resources, and high-risk access scenarios.
• Define identity security assurance approaches to identify excessive access, orphaned accounts, privilege misuse, weak authentication, and lifecycle-control gaps.
• Direct the maturation and effective use of IAM, IGA, PAM, directory, MFA, SSO, federation, and identity analytics capabilities, ensuring controls are effective and remediation is measurable.
• Manage a portfolio of IAM programs from requirements and design through implementation, operational transition, maturity, and continuous service improvement.
• Assess enterprise IAM capability gaps and sponsor practical implementation roadmaps in partnership with Cybersecurity, IT, Cloud, Infrastructure, HR, application, and business stakeholders.
• Advise cybersecurity and technology leadership on identity priorities, risk trade-offs, service improvements, platform investments, and operating-model decisions.
• Lead, coach, and develop IAM professionals while establishing knowledge-transfer practices, succession planning, and sustainable coverage for critical identity capabilities.
• Develop cybersecurity countermeasures, identity risk mitigation approaches, and implementation guidance aligned with technology and business requirements.
• Maintain strong senior-stakeholder relationships and cross-functional communication to support IAM delivery, prioritization, adoption, and operational effectiveness.
• Establish configuration and change-management practices throughout IAM implementation, transition, and ongoing operations.
• Evaluate the effectiveness and maturity of identity security controls and drive measurable improvements across applications, services, privileged resources, and related processes.
• Maintain technical documentation, operating procedures, access standards, and knowledge-transfer materials that support sustainable IAM operations and succession planning.

Requirements:

• Bachelor’s degree in MIS, IT, Engineering, Computer Science, Cybersecurity, or a related field is required; a master’s degree is preferred. Equivalent combinations of education and experience may be considered.
• At least 8 years of experience in IAM, cybersecurity, infrastructure, cloud engineering, application security, or a related discipline.
• Knowledge of identity and access management concepts, architectures, operating models, and governance practices.
• Strong understanding of cybersecurity and privacy principles as they apply to authentication, authorization, access governance, and privileged access.
• Knowledge of enterprise identity risk-management processes, including assessing, prioritizing, and mitigating identity security risks.
• Strong knowledge of authentication, authorization, federation, SSO, MFA, and access-control methods.
• Experience with IAM, IGA, PAM, directory services, identity lifecycle management, and secure architecture principles.
• Understanding of identity-security requirements across cloud platforms, applications, infrastructure, privileged resources, and third-party access scenarios.
• Knowledge of automation, workflow, API integration, and policy-driven provisioning and deprovisioning practices.
• Familiarity with identity analytics, access certification, entitlement management, privileged-session controls, and service-account governance.
• Ability to assess identity security controls, control maturity, and residual risk using established cybersecurity principles and practices.
• Strong communication skills, with the ability to explain complex identity, access, operational, and risk concepts to technical teams, business stakeholders, and cybersecurity leadership.
• Ability to develop strategic roadmaps, decision materials, technical standards, operating procedures, and documentation that support sustainable IAM services.
• Strong skills in automation, scripting, API integration, workflow design, and policy-based access-control approaches.
• Ability to analyze access, entitlement, account, configuration, interoperability, and control-testing data to support risk-based decisions.
• Experience evaluating, selecting, implementing, and maturing IAM, IGA, PAM, MFA, SSO, federation, directory, and identity analytics capabilities.
• Ability to identify identity security weaknesses, prioritize remediation, and drive risk reduction through cross-functional initiatives.
• Ability to translate technical and business requirements into scalable IAM operating models, services, controls, and measurable outcomes.
• Strong influencing skills, with the ability to work effectively with Infrastructure, Cloud, HR, application development, Cybersecurity, vendors, and business teams without relying solely on direct authority.
• Demonstrated people leadership, coaching, prioritization, and cybersecurity decision-making skills across confidentiality, integrity, availability, authentication, and non-repudiation requirements.
• Relevant certifications such as CISSP, CISM, Microsoft identity, IGA, PAM, or identity-platform certifications are preferred.

Benefits:

• Annual salary range of $95,000–$193,000 USD, with compensation varying based on skills, experience, and location.
• Full-time, fully remote position based in the United States.
• Competitive benefits package.
• Inclusive working environment where diverse experiences, perspectives, and skills are valued.
• Opportunity to shape enterprise-wide identity security strategy and mature foundational cybersecurity capabilities.
• Senior leadership scope with opportunities to develop IAM professionals and influence technology and security operating models.