Senior Director - Cybersecurity Identity & Access Management

As the Senior Director of Identity & Access Management (IAM), you will serve as a core cybersecurity executive, shaping and defining the enterprise identity vision and strategic architecture. In this role, you will recruit, empower, and lead a high-performing organization of security engineers and practice leaders responsible for delivering resilient, enterprise-wide identity services, capabilities, and governance models.

Reporting directly to the Chief Information Security Officer (CISO), this critical position requires extensive domain mastery in identity control frameworks and modern access management architectures. You will champion the IAM vision and multi-year roadmap, drive operational excellence and robust risk reporting, and embed zero-trust identity controls across all business domains. As a key strategic partner, you will collaborate with cross-functional leadership, accelerate product onboarding to enterprise-approved identity platforms, and proactively communicate risk posture and program progress to executive stakeholders.

Key Responsibilities

• Establish, drive, and own the overarching Identity & Access Management vision, multi-year strategy, roadmap, and operational model, while hiring and managing the IAM organization
• Implement and oversee core IAM capabilities, including single sign-on (SSO), multi-factor authentication (MFA), credential vaulting, identity governance, privileged access management, secrets management, lifecycle management, access certifications, threat detection, third-party governance, and customer IAM (CIAM)
• Design tailored identity solutions for complex or non-standard deployment scenarios where core IAM services cannot be directly applied
• Oversee identity management governance to ensure performance metrics are defined and met, and partner with business teams to remediate non-compliance issues
• Develop strong relationships within the industry to ensure the latest technology and best practices is implemented
• Develop and lead the cyber security metrics and executive reporting processes, including KPIs and metrics
• Partners closely with technology and application teams to support onboarding applications to enterprise-approved identity products and services as part of enterprise cloud migration efforts
• Partner closely with risk management and compliance stakeholders to maintain full regulatory alignment
• Establish non-human identity (NHI) governance and secrets management controls, including machine identity lifecycle management, service account rotation, and API credential security across multi-cloud environments
• Partner with Threat Detection and Response leader to implement identity threat detection and response (ITDR) capabilities to continuously monitor, detect, and remediate anomalous access behaviors, credential misuse, and identity-based vulnerabilities in real time
• Drive cross-functional access governance across business, HR, and technology teams to enforce least privilege, role-based access controls (RBAC), and automated joiner-mover-leaver lifecycle workflows
• Architect resilient cloud and federated identity models across multi-cloud and hybrid infrastructures (Azure/Entra ID, GCP, Okta), standardizing single sign-on (SSO), multi-factor authentication (MFA), and zero-trust conditional access policies
• Lead M&A identity integration and divestiture strategies, overseeing identity carve-outs, directory consolidations, and federation separation across complex enterprise environments
• Architect and deliver enterprise-grade identity products and services engineered for maximum scalability, fault tolerance, and high availability
• Leverage automation, artificial intelligence (AI), and machine learning (ML) to drive operational efficiency, automate lifecycle governance and user provisioning, and enhance proactive identity threat detection

Minimum Requirements

• Degree or equivalentexperience. Typically requires15+ years of professionalexperience and 10+ years ofdiversified leadership, planning,communication, organization,and people motivation skills (orequivalent experience).

Skills and Qualifications:

• 15+ years of cybersecurity experience with significant depth in identity and access management, engineering and architecture, risk management, compliance, technology, cyber security, including 10+ years leading teams and/or enterprise programs.
• Hands-on and leadership experience managing and building an identity and access management program
• Proven ability to drive remediation outcomes atscale establishingSLAs, clarifying ownership, prioritizing backlogs, and closing systemic gaps surfaced by incidents, hunts, and assessments.
• Executive-ready communication and stakeholder management skills, including the ability to present risk, progress, and investment needs to senior leadership and influence decisions
• Demonstrated ability to set strategy, secure organizational alignment/approvals, and deliver outcomes through multiple stakeholders (Security, Infrastructure, Cloud, Application/Product, and business teams)
• Deep understanding cyber security identity and access management, engineering, risk management, compliance, and architecture
• Strong risk communication skills: able to translate detection gaps and remediation tradeoffs into business impact, present to executives, and drive decisions to closure.
• Experienceestablishingoversight metrics and operational rhythms (OKRs/KPIs, reporting, service reviews) and using data to improve alert quality, reduce noise, and accelerate remediation throughput.
• Working knowledge of relevant governance and regulatory expectations and the ability to partner effectively with audit/compliance and privacy stakeholders whileoperatingan effective detection and response capability.
• Track recordof building high-performing teams and leading with integrity, accountability, and operational discipline; known for clear communication, sound judgment, and reliable execution.
• Experience developing multi-year roadmaps and influencing investment decisions (people, tooling, telemetry, automation) to improve enterprise detection and remediation outcomes.
• Proven capability managing vendor relationships and service contracts for security tooling and managed services, including defining requirements and measuring performance against outcomes.
• Strong understanding of privacy considerations andappropriate monitoringpractices; able to partner with Legal/Privacy and HR as needed and ensure monitoring and investigationsremainwithin policy and regulatory boundaries.
• Experienceoperatingin hybrid/cloud environments and partnering with platform teams to instrument systems (cloud logging, identity signals, endpoint telemetry, network data) for reliable detections.
• Strong strategic and tactical decision-makingableto balance speed and risk, define compensating controls, and drive complex remediation decisions across multiple owners.
• Experience leading or sponsoring purple team activities, tabletop exercises, and control validation to continuously improve detection coverage and response playbooks.
• Trusted leader who builds credibility with executives and teams through transparency, follow-through, and a strong culture of operational excellence.

Education Requirements

• Bachelorsdegree in computer science, information security/assurance, engineering, ora relatedfield; advanced degree preferred or equivalent experience.

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Certification Requirements

• Relevant certifications (preferred): CISSP, CISM, GIAC/SANS, +, SSCP, or equivalent foundational security certification. TDR/SecOps certifications (a plus): Google Cloud Professional Cloud Security Engineer and/or Associate Cloud Engineer, Google Professional Cloud DevOps Engineer, and/or GIAC certifications (e.g., GSEC, GCIH) depending on role focus. and/or cloud/security engineering certifications aligned to theteamsplatforms.
  

Career Level - M5

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