Information Security Engineering Manager IAM

About this role:

Wells Fargo is seeking an Information Security Engineering Manager to lead a Privileged Access Management (PAM) engineering organization. This role is responsible for securing modernizing and evolving enterprise privileged access capabilities including credential vaulting secrets management session control and leastprivilege enforcement. The manager will oversee risk reduction related to privileged identities while driving automation DevSecOps integration and standardized access patterns. This position will guide the team through PAM modernization initiatives including retiring legacy access models improving platform architecture and enabling scalable cloudready privileged access solutions across hybrid environments.

In this role you will:

• Provide strategic leadership for the Privileged Access Management (PAM) platform defining vision roadmaps and longterm evolution for credential vaulting session management secrets management and leastprivilege access across the enterprise

• Lead teams responsible for securing privileged credentials and access paths including account onboarding rotation session isolation and policy enforcement for human and nonhuman identities

• Drive modernization of PAM capabilities transitioning from legacy manually managed access models to automated policydriven and APIintegrated solutions aligned with Zero Trust principles

• Guide adoption of DevSecOps and automation patterns for privileged access including CI/CD integrations secrets delivery ephemeral credentials and infrastructureascode enablement

• Oversee vulnerability reduction and risk mitigation related to privileged access including elimination of hardcoded credentials shared accounts excessive entitlements and standing access

• Partner closely with security architecture IAM cloud infrastructure and application teams to embed privileged access controls into platforms pipelines and operating models

• Manage a team of engineers designing implementing documenting and supporting highly complex PAM solutions spanning CyberArk secrets management platforms directory services cloud IAM and hybrid environments

• Provide security consulting and design oversight for large enterprise initiatives to ensure privileged access patterns conform to information security policy regulatory requirements and audit expectations

• Serve as a subject matter expert in PAM technologies and best practices staying current on emerging threats access models and platform capabilities

• Lead technical investigation and response for privileged accessrelated incidents including root cause analysis and remediation recommendations to prevent recurrence

• Ensure PAM controls support availability confidentiality integrity access governance monitoring and incident response while enabling business agility and developer productivity

• Manage resource planning prioritization and financial stewardship for PAM engineering and platform investments

• Mentor develop and retain engineering talent building strong technical depth and leadership capability within the PAM organization

• Demonstrate proficiency in using AIassisted development and analysis tools (e.g. GitHub Copilot and approved codecentric agents)
• Leverage AI to accelerate system design coding testing analysis and troubleshooting
• Apply strong technical judgment when validating and integrating AIassisted outputs into solutions
• Understand and account for model limitations security risks and operational considerations
• Apply AI responsibly in development and production environments
• Ensure AI usage aligns with security compliance privacy and ethical standards

Required Qualifications:

• 5 years of Information Security Engineering experience or equivalent demonstrated through one or a combination of the following: work experience training military experience education
• 2 years of Leadership experience

Desired Qualifications:

• Experience with CyberArk credential management system

• Experience with Agentic AI identity frameworks like SPIFFE and SPIRE

• Experience managing and developing highperforming Agile teams focused on Privileged Access Management identity platforms and security engineering solutions

• Strong knowledge of DevSecOps patterns as they relate to privileged access including secure CI/CD integration automated credential delivery secrets injection and control enforcement

• Handson understanding of Kubernetes and cloudnative environments from a privileged access perspective including workload identity service accounts secrets distribution and container access controls

• Proficiency with cloud and hybrid architectures requiring secure privileged access including integration with cloud IAM secrets management platforms and enterprise PAM tooling

• Ability to drive engineering excellence in PAM through automation policydriven access observability and standardized onboarding patterns

• Proven collaboration skills with IAM security architecture infrastructure cloud and application teams to deliver resilient compliant and scalable privileged access solutions

• Demonstrated leadership in PAM platform engineering building and operating centralized vaulting session management secrets services and selfservice access models

• Experience leading modernization of privileged access for legacy and homegrown systems including removal of hardcoded credentials reduction of shared accounts and elimination of standing access

• Track record of transformation leadership to establish new privileged access patterns operating models and Zero Trustaligned controls across the enterprise

• Expertise in automation and CI/CD enablement for PAM including policyascode secrets management credential rotation and integration across onprem and cloud environments

• Ability to define and execute a cloud and platform readiness roadmap for privileged access guiding teams through staged adoption or hybrid models while maintaining uptime auditability and compliance

Job Expectations:

• Ability to work on-site in one of the listed locations in a hybrid environment. There is no option for fully remote work

• This position is not available for visa sponsorship

Pay Range

Reflected is the base pay range offered for this position. Pay may vary depending on factors including but not limited to demonstrated examples of prior performance skills experience or work location. Employees may also be eligible for incentive opportunities.

Posting End Date:

*Job posting may come down early due to volume of applicants.

We Value Equal Opportunity

Wells Fargo is an equal opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race color religion sex sexual orientation gender identity national origin disability status as a protected veteran or any other legally protected characteristic.

Employees support our focus on building strong customer relationships balanced with a strong risk mitigating and compliance-driven culture which firmly establishes those disciplines as critical to the success of our customers and company. They are accountable for execution of all applicable risk programs (Credit Market Financial Crimes Operational Regulatory Compliance) which includes effectively following and adhering to applicable Wells Fargo policies and procedures appropriately fulfilling risk and compliance obligations timely and effective escalation and remediation of issues and making sound risk decisions. There is emphasis on proactive monitoring governance risk identification and escalation as well as making sound risk decisions commensurate with the business units risk appetite and all risk and compliance program requirements.

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