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IAM Engineering Director

Western Alliance Bank•Phoenix, AZ
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About The Position

The Identity and Access Management (IAM) Engineering Director leads the strategy, delivery, and operational excellence of enterprise IAM engineering capabilities. The role is responsible for delivering secure, scalable, and resilient identity services across workforce, privileged, application, cloud, and machine identities. The director shapes the IAM roadmap, modernizes identity platforms, strengthens Zero Trust and least-privilege access controls, and collaborates across security, technology, risk, compliance, audit, business, and vendor teams to provide secure access and a streamlined user experience. The director owns IAM engineering capabilities and platforms across identity lifecycle management, access management, identity governance and administration, privileged access management, directory services, authentication, authorization, federation, SSO, MFA, and related access controls. The role also sets engineering standards, architecture patterns, KPIs, controls, service levels, documentation, and operational procedures; oversees production support and service improvement; 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.
  • Previous leadership experience.
  • 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, such as application engineering support and delivery, infrastructure engineering support and delivery, architecture, or project management, while working on complex solutions and products and overseeing KPIs and timelines.
  • Advanced to expert experience building and delivering strategic IT solutions, analyzing data and communicating findings, and using data to identify improvement and growth opportunities in collaboration with business and technology leads.
  • Advanced speaking and writing communication skills.

Nice To Haves

  • Intermediate to advanced knowledge of 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.
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • Manage IAM budgets, vendor relationships, resource plans, business cases, delivery commitments, and operating plans.
  • May travel up to 25%.

Benefits

  • Competitive salaries
  • Ownership stake in the company
  • Medical and 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

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