Manager, Identity & Access Management Engineering (Hybrid)

We are looking for someone excited to step into a people leadership role within the Identity and Access Management (IAM) organization in Enterprise Cybersecurity Solutions and help lead our IAM Engineering organization.

As Securian continues to modernize and scale its IAM capabilities this role will help shape how our core identity access authentication privileged access and certificate management platforms are engineered and supported across the enterprise. IAM Engineering partners closely with IAM Operations IAM Governance application teams cybersecurity partners and other technology teams to build reliable and secure IAM capabilities modernize existing platforms and continuously improve how identity services are delivered.

The IAM Engineering organization currently consists of two primary engineering teams:

• IGA Platform Engineering supports SailPoint Identity Security Cloud (ISC) including platform configuration integrations application onboarding connectors identity and entitlement models and the AWS-hosted Virtual Appliance infrastructure that supports the service.

• Access Platform Engineering supports CyberArk PingID PingFederate PingOne for Customer Venafi TPP and Venafi ZTPKI along with the cloud infrastructure integrations automation and engineering practices needed to operate and modernize those platforms.

Depending on the selected candidates qualifications technical background and leadership experience this manager will initially lead one or both of these engineering teams. The broader IAM leadership model may continue to evolve as the organization and its responsibilities grow.

This role is a great fit for someone who enjoys developing technical talent bringing structure and consistency to engineering work solving complex problems and helping teams modernize how they build and support technology. It is also a strong opportunity for someone who is ready to grow as a leader of people while remaining close enough to the technology to provide direction challenge assumptions and help engineers work through difficult problems.

Prior deep technical experience is important but we do not expect this leader to be the deepest technical expert in every platform the teams support. Just as important is the ability to develop people establish strong engineering practices lead through change build strong partnerships across technical and business teams and build upon the existing positive collaborative and fun team culture.

Responsibilities

Responsibilities include but are not limited to:

• Lead one or both IAM Engineering teams responsible for the design engineering integration reliability and lifecycle management of enterprise IAM platforms.

• Ensure IAM platforms are fully aligned with modern practices being driven by our Reliability Engineering (REO) organization as it relates to reliability resiliency and quality.

• Develop and mentor IAM engineers with a range of experience levels helping them build technical depth broaden their capabilities and take greater ownership of the platforms they support.

• Establish clear priorities and balance project delivery platform modernization production support technical debt lifecycle management and other engineering commitments.

• Drive consistent engineering practices across IAM platforms including automation infrastructure as code source control testing documentation peer review and repeatable deployment practices.

• Partner with engineers and technical leads to improve platform resiliency supportability disaster recovery readiness monitoring and overall service health.

• Reduce reliance on individual subject matter experts by encouraging cross-training documentation shared ownership and intentional development of support depth.

• Partner closely with IAM Governance to translate identity access role entitlement authentication privileged access and other governance requirements into sustainable technical solutions.

• Partner closely with IAM Operations to resolve complex service issues improve escalation paths identify opportunities for automation and reduce manual operational work over time.

• Work with application teams and other technology partners to design and implement integrations with IAM platforms including onboarding applications into SailPoint ISC and integrating applications with authentication privileged access and certificate management services.

• Provide technical direction and coaching while empowering senior engineers and technical leads to own platform decisions and lead complex initiatives.

• Identify opportunities to simplify modernize or retire legacy approaches and ensure engineering teams continue to evolve with broader enterprise technology practices.

• Manage platform lifecycle activities including upgrades vendor roadmaps vulnerabilities end-of-support timelines capacity needs and technology risks.

• Build strong working relationships with Enterprise Technology infrastructure teams application teams architecture cybersecurity stakeholders vendors and business partners.

• Foster a team environment that values ownership collaboration continuous learning constructive technical challenge and a positive team culture.

Qualifications

• Bachelors degree in computer science information systems cybersecurity or equivalent work experience.

• Demonstrated experience leading technology cybersecurity IAM infrastructure platform engineering or similar technical efforts and/or teams in a large corporate environment or strong readiness to step into a people leadership role.

• Strong understanding of modern engineering and infrastructure practices including automation source control infrastructure as code testing cloud technologies and reliable production support.

• Experience working with enterprise IAM or security technologies such as SailPoint CyberArk Ping Venafi or similar platforms.

• Experience with cloud-based infrastructure and services preferably including AWS.

• Ability to lead technical teams supporting a combination of SaaS platforms cloud-hosted infrastructure integrations and enterprise applications.

• Proven ability to balance engineering delivery production support technical debt lifecycle management and longer-term modernization work.

• Ability to provide meaningful technical guidance without needing to personally be the subject matter expert for every technology supported by the team.

• Experience developing technical staff and creating opportunities for engineers to expand their skills ownership and responsibilities.

• Ability to identify areas of technical or operational risk and drive teams toward practical sustainable solutions.

• Strong leadership communication organizational and stakeholder partnership skills.

• Ability to thrive in a fast-paced environment balance competing priorities and lead teams through technical and organizational change while maintaining a positive team culture.

• Experience working in audit governance cybersecurity or other regulated control environments.

#LI-hybrid **This position will be in a hybrid working arrangement.**

Securian Financial believes in hybrid work as an integral part of our culture. Associates get the benefit of working both virtually and in our offices. If youre in a commutable distance (90 minutes) youll join us 3 days each week in our offices to collaborate and build relationships. Our policy allows flexibility for the reality of business and personal schedules.

Preferred Skills:

Be you. With us. At Securian Financial we understand that attracting top talent means offering more than just a job it means providing a rewarding and fulfilling career. As a valued member of our high-performing team we want you to connect with your work your relationships and your community. Enjoy our comprehensive range of benefits designed to enhance your professional growth well-being and work-life balance including the advantages listed here:

Paid time off:

• We want you to take time off for what matters most to you. Our PTO program provides flexibility for associates to take meaningful time away from work to relax recharge and spend time doing whats important to them. And Securian Financial rewards associates for their service by providing additional PTO the longer you stay at Securian.
• Leave programs: Securians flexible leave programs allow time off from work for parental leave caregiver leave for family members bereavement and military leave.
• Holidays: Securian provides nine company paid holidays.

Company-funded pension plan and a 401(k) retirement plan: Share in the success of our company. Securians 401(k) company contribution is tied to our performance up to 10 percent of eligible earnings with a target of 5 percent. The amount is based on company results compared to goals related to earnings sales and service.

Health insurance: From the first day of employment associates and their eligible family members including spouses domestic partners and children are eligible for medical dental and vision coverage.

Volunteer time: We know the importance of community. Through company-sponsored events volunteer paid time off a dollar-for-dollar matching gift program and more we encourage you to support organizations important to you.

Associate Resource Groups: Build connections be yourself and develop meaningful relationships at work through associate-led ARGs. Dedicated groups focus on a variety of interests and affinities including:

• Environmental Health & Sustainability
• Mental Wellness and Disability
• Pride at Securian Financial
• Securian Young Professionals Network
• Securian Multicultural Network
• Securian Women and Allies Network
• Servicemember Associate Resource Group

For more information regarding Securians benefits please review our Benefits page.

This information is not intended to explain all the provisions of coverage available under these all cases the plan document dictates coverage and provisions.

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