Cyber Identity - PlainID/PBAC Engineering Manager II

Deloitte•Jersey City, NJ

65d•$134,500 - $265,100•Onsite

About The Position

Our Deloitte Cyber team understands the unique challenges and opportunities businesses face in cybersecurity. Join our team to deliver powerful solutions to help our clients navigate the ever-changing threat landscape. Through powerful solutions and managed services that simplify complexity, we enable our clients to operate with resilience, grow with confidence, and proactively manage to secure success. As an experienced PlainID professional at Deloitte Consulting, you will be responsible for delivering high-quality work products within defined timelines while providing delivery and technical leadership to the PBAC engagement team who delivers the PBAC/ABAC authorization tools including PlainID. This role combines deep technical ownership with engineering expertise, governance, and stakeholder management.

Requirements

7+ years of total experience, including strong hands-on experience in PlainID and access management implementation.
3+ years with access control models — specifically PBAC — and how each maps to real enterprise use cases.
3+ years of experience integrating and supporting complex integrations and connectors for PIP integration.
Must have strong knowledge of ensuring compliance with internal and external regulations, including SOX, GDPR, and ISO standards.
Experience integrating with identity providers and standard protocols: OAuth 2.0, OpenID Connect, SAML, JWT.
Comfort with policy-as-code concepts and reading/writing structured policy logic (e.g., Rego or similar rules-based languages).
Working knowledge of APIs and microservices architectures, plus experience with at least one API gateway (Apigee, Kong, Azure API Management, or similar).
Proven ownership of CAB/change governance, release management, and stakeholder management.
Advanced troubleshooting capability with strong knowledge of PlainID integration.
Ability to travel 25–50%, on average, based on the work you do and the clients and industries/sectors you serve.
Limited immigration sponsorship may be available.

Nice To Haves

Previous consulting or Big 4 experience preferred.
Experience with RBAC, ABAC
Strong documentation, reporting, and executive communication skills.
Ability to manage vendor coordination

Responsibilities

Configure and implement the PlainID Authorization Platform within client environments, including policy modelling and decision-point/information-point setup.
Lead technical discussions with Enterprise architects and IAM stake holders.
Lead a PBAC team for successful and seamless delivery.
Design fine-grained, attribute-based access policies (PBAC/ABAC) that translate business rules into technical controls, including row- and column-level data access restrictions where needed.
Integrate PlainID with client identity providers (Okta, Microsoft Entra ID, Ping Identity, ForgeRock), API gateways, microservices, and data platforms such as Snowflake or Big Query.
Support the full policy lifecycle — authoring, testing, versioning, and deployment — using PlainID's visual policy modeling and policy-as-code capabilities.
Run requirements sessions with client stakeholders to document current-state access patterns and design the target-state authorization model.
Troubleshoot policy conflicts, integration issues, and authorization-decision errors across the client's technology stack.
Lead the testing, validation, and go-live activities, including access-decision auditing and performance checks.
Lead the team to produce clear technical documentation — policy catalogs, integration diagrams, runbooks — for both the client and the internal delivery team.
Partner with engagement leads and architects to keep delivery on track and surface risks early.
Stay current on PlainID's platform roadmap, including emerging capabilities for AI agent and machine-identity authorization.
Lead the team to establish and maintain runbooks, SOPs, knowledge articles, and documentation standards for repeatable and governed support operations.
Lead the conversation with client stakeholders, internal teams, and third-party vendors to resolve defects, manage dependencies, and improve service outcomes.