IAM Engineering Director

Western Alliance Bank • Phoenix, AZ

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About The Position

The Identity and Access Management (IAM) Engineering Director will lead the strategy, delivery, and operational excellence of enterprise IAM engineering capabilities. The role is responsible for secure, scalable, and resilient identity services across workforce, privileged, application, cloud, and machine identities. The director will shape the IAM roadmap, modernize identity platforms, strengthen Zero Trust and least-privilege access controls, and partner across security, technology, risk, compliance, audit, business, and vendor teams to deliver secure access with a streamlined user experience.

The position provides strategic and operational leadership for IAM engineering, including platform modernization, security controls, service reliability, audit readiness, production support, and continuous improvement. It also leads and develops matrixed teams and manages budgets, vendors, resources, business cases, delivery commitments, and operating plans.

Requirements

• 12+ years of related experience or experience in a similar field.
• Bachelor's degree in a related field required.
• Previous leadership experience required.
• Intermediate to advanced knowledge of applicable regulatory and legal compliance obligations, rules and regulations, industry standards and practices.
• Previous experience as a developer in Identity Governance platforms.
• Knowledge of engineering and/or software development methodologies.
• Advanced to expert experience managing multiple large technology teams in application engineering support and delivery, infrastructure engineering support and delivery, architecture, or project management, while working on complex solutions and products and being responsible for executing KPIs and timelines.
• Advanced to expert experience building and delivering strategic IT solutions, analyzing varied data, and summarizing findings in reports or other communication mediums; ability to use data to identify improvement areas and growth opportunities in collaboration with business and technology leads.
• Advanced speaking and writing communication skills.
• May require up to 25% travel.

Nice To Haves

• Intermediate to advanced knowledge of general Financial Services or Banking.
• Experience with SailPoint, CyberArk, Microsoft Entra, directories, AWS Identity and Access Management, directory services, federation, and cloud identity integrations.

Responsibilities

• Lead enterprise IAM engineering across identity lifecycle management, access management, identity governance and administration, privileged access management, directory services, authentication, authorization, federation, SSO, MFA, and related access controls.
• Own and execute a multi-year IAM roadmap aligned with cyber strategy, regulatory obligations, risk reduction, operational resilience, business enablement, and user experience goals.
• Modernize IAM platforms, integrations, and operating models across hybrid, cloud, SaaS, and on-premises environments, ensuring services are secure, scalable, auditable, and reliable.
• Drive adoption of Zero Trust, least privilege, segregation of duties, role-based access, policy-based access, and strong authentication across workforce, privileged, service, application, and machine identities.
• Provide strategic direction for IAM technologies and platforms.
• Partner with cybersecurity, infrastructure, application engineering, architecture, risk, compliance, audit, legal, business, and third-party providers to embed IAM controls into technology solutions and business processes.
• Establish IAM engineering standards, architecture patterns, KPIs, controls, service levels, documentation, and operational procedures to improve reliability, reduce risk, and support audit readiness.
• Oversee production support, incident response, root-cause analysis, vulnerability remediation, service health, and continuous improvement for IAM platforms and services.
• Lead, coach, and develop matrixed teams of IAM engineers, architects, product owners, and technology professionals while fostering accountability, technical excellence, collaboration, and continuous improvement.
• Manage IAM budgets, vendor relationships, resource plans, business cases, delivery commitments, and operating plans to ensure effective execution of strategic priorities.

Benefits

• Competitive salaries
• Ownership stake in the company
• Medical insurance
• Dental insurance
• Time off
• 401(k) matching program
• Tuition assistance program
• Employee volunteer program
• Wellness program
• Opportunity to build business knowledge and gain hands-on experience with how successful companies operate and manage their finances

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Director