Senior IT Manager, Identity & Collaboration Platforms — Global IT Operations

At Jabil (NYSE: JBL) we are proud to be a trusted partner for the worlds top brands offering comprehensive engineering supply chain and manufacturing solutions. With 60 years of experience across industries and a vast network of over 100 sites worldwide Jabil combines global reach with local expertise to deliver both scalable and customized solutions. Our commitment extends beyond business success as we strive to build sustainable processes that minimize environmental impact and foster vibrant and diverse communities around the globe.

Position Overview

Jabil is seeking a technically strong and business-focused Senior IT Manager to provide global leadership for our identity authentication and collaboration platforms within IT Operations.

These platformsincluding Identity and Access Management Microsoft 365 Microsoft Entra ID Active Directory and related servicesare foundational to employee productivity secure access and reliable global operations.

The role will coordinate the existing service delivery teams establish common priorities and lead cross-platform initiatives particularly M&A integrations automation standardization and security enhancements.

The successful candidate will strengthen portfolio-level leadership while preserving the established ownership and technical authority of the existing service managers and their teams. The candidate must also understand the broader infrastructure environment including networking servers storage and cloud services and how identity and collaboration platforms support global manufacturing operations.

Key Responsibilities

Strategy and Platform Leadership

• Define and execute the global strategy and roadmap for identity authentication and collaboration platforms.
• Provide end-to-end operational accountability across IAM Microsoft 365 and related enterprise services.
• Coordinate established service delivery teams and align priorities roadmaps investments and dependencies.
• Ensure alignment with broader infrastructure strategies covering networking servers storage and cloud.
• Lead platform modernization consolidation and retirement of legacy technologies.
• Translate business and technical requirements into secure scalable and supportable platform capabilities.
• Drive continuous improvement in reliability user experience automation and cost efficiency.

Identity and Access Management

• Oversee identity lifecycle management including joiner mover and leaver processes.
• Ensure reliable delivery of authentication authorization SSO MFA federation and directory services.
• Partner with HR Information Security and application teams to improve identity governance and access provisioning.
• Support privileged-access conditional-access access-certification and identity-governance capabilities.
• Maintain appropriate controls for service accounts administrative identities and application integrations.
• Ensure identity services are resilient auditable and capable of supporting Jabils global operations.
• Support identity and authentication requirements across on-premises infrastructure cloud services manufacturing systems and appropriate OT use cases.

Microsoft 365 and Collaboration

• Provide leadership for Microsoft 365 services including Exchange Online Teams SharePoint OneDrive and related collaboration technologies.
• Establish governance for collaboration external sharing platform lifecycle and service configuration.
• Lead platform modernization optimization and user-experience improvements.
• Govern and support emerging capabilities such as Microsoft Copilot AI-enabled collaboration Power Automate and intelligent workflows.
• Ensure new capabilities are introduced with appropriate support governance security and value measurements.

Engineering Integration and Automation

• Promote an automation-first approach across identity and collaboration services.
• Drive automation of provisioning reporting access reviews audit activities and routine administrative processes.
• Support integrations between identity platforms Microsoft 365 HR systems cloud services SaaS platforms and enterprise applications.
• Ensure effective integration with network server storage and cloud infrastructure.
• Encourage the use of PowerShell Microsoft Graph APIs and other automation technologies.
• Establish reusable engineering standards and reduce manual operational work.
• Ensure technical solutions are scalable supportable and appropriately documented.

Service Delivery and Operational Excellence

• Ensure reliable operation and support of all platforms within scope.
• Establish consistent incident problem change release availability and capacity-management practices.
• Provide leadership during major incidents and recurring cross-platform problems.
• Drive root-cause analysis and long-term corrective actions.
• Define and monitor service levels operational KPIs platform health and user-experience measures.
• Ensure appropriate monitoring documentation support models and escalation procedures are maintained.
• Maintain platform resilience backup recovery and disaster-recovery readiness.
• Coordinate closely with Service Desk Infrastructure Cloud Network Application Site IT Manufacturing IT and OT teams.
• Ensure that platform changes consider manufacturing schedules production-critical systems and approved maintenance windows.

Manufacturing and OT Collaboration

• Develop strong working relationships with global Manufacturing IT Site IT and OT teams.
• Understand the availability security and operational requirements of a global manufacturing environment.
• Ensure identity and authentication services support production-critical applications and manufacturing operations.
• Coordinate identity remote-access and collaboration requirements affecting manufacturing sites and OT environments.
• Support secure integration between enterprise identity platforms and approved manufacturing or OT solutions.
• Ensure that changes affecting factories are properly assessed communicated tested and scheduled to minimize production risk.
• Partner with OT and Information Security teams on appropriate access controls segmentation principles and support models.
• Provide leadership during incidents where identity collaboration or infrastructure services affect manufacturing operations.

M&A Integration and Separation

• Lead identity collaboration and related infrastructure workstreams for acquisitions divestitures and organizational integrations.
• Support technical due diligence and identify platform access licensing security infrastructure and integration risks.
• Assess network server storage and cloud dependencies that may affect identity and collaboration migrations.
• Develop Day 1 readiness transition migration and separation plans.
• Coordinate directory domain tenant email collaboration and access migrations.
• Establish clear milestones dependencies ownership and resource requirements.
• Ensure access is appropriately provisioned transferred and removed throughout the M&A lifecycle.
• Partner with Legal HR Information Security Infrastructure Manufacturing IT OT and business leadership throughout execution.

Governance Risk and Compliance

• Partner with Information Security on identity policies authentication controls privileged access and audit requirements.
• Translate Information Security requirements into sustainable operational controls and platform configurations.
• Lead implementation of agreed security enhancements across the supported platforms.
• Support audits compliance assessments access reviews and remediation activities.
• Establish operational governance for collaboration services data protection and external sharing.
• Maintain clear accountability between IT Operations delivery and Information Security risk oversight.
• Ensure that manufacturing and OT requirements are included in relevant governance and risk decisions.

Financial and Vendor Management

• Manage platform budgets forecasts licensing and consumption.
• Develop business cases for modernization lifecycle improvements and new capabilities.
• Manage relationships with Microsoft technology vendors and service providers.
• Drive licensing optimization and ensure that entitlements align with business requirements.
• Ensure contracts support Jabils operational manufacturing security data-ownership and M&A needs.
• Identify opportunities to reduce cost and simplify the technology portfolio.

Leadership and Stakeholder Management

• Establish common objectives and promote collaboration across technical teams.
• Create a working environment that encourages accountability transparency innovation and continuous improvement.
• Communicate platform performance risks investment requirements and transformation progress to senior leadership.
• Build effective relationships across IT Operations Information Security Manufacturing IT OT HR Legal Finance and business functions.
• Lead globally distributed internal and external teams across multiple regions and time zones.

Minimum Qualifications

• Bachelors degree in Information Technology Computer Science Engineering or a related discipline or equivalent practical experience.
• Ten or more years of enterprise IT experience.
• Five or more years of leadership experience managing technical teams service delivery teams or managers.
• Strong experience with Microsoft 365 Microsoft Entra ID and Active Directory.
• Deep understanding of identity and access management authentication SSO MFA federation and identity governance.
• Knowledge of authentication and authorization standards such as SAML OAuth and OpenID Connect.
• Broad experience with enterprise networking servers storage and cloud technologies.
• Understanding of the dependencies between identity collaboration network compute storage and cloud services.
• Experience operating highly available business-critical global technology platforms.
• Experience supporting technology services in a manufacturing environment.
• Demonstrated experience working with Site IT Manufacturing IT and OT teams.
• Understanding of production-critical environments maintenance windows and manufacturing availability requirements.
• Strong IT service-management experience across incident problem change and lifecycle management.
• Experience with automation using PowerShell Microsoft Graph APIs or comparable technologies.
• Experience managing enterprise vendors licensing budgets and commercial commitments.
• Demonstrated ability to work across Information Security Infrastructure HR Legal and business functions.
• Strong executive communication stakeholder-management and escalation-management skills.
• Ability to translate complex technical requirements into secure scalable and user-focused solutions.

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience leading M&A technology due diligence Day 1 readiness integration and separation.
• Experience with tenant directory domain email and collaboration-platform migrations.
• Experience in a large global manufacturing organization.
• Experience supporting 24/7 manufacturing operations and production-critical services.
• Experience implementing identity and access solutions that support manufacturing or OT environments.
• Experience managing outsourced or managed-service delivery partners.
• Knowledge of Zero Trust identity principles and regulated or compliance-sensitive environments.
• Microsoft 365 Azure identity security infrastructure or cloud certifications.
• ITIL or equivalent IT service-management certification.
• Experience with Copilot AI-enabled automation workflow orchestration or digital employee-experience platforms.
• Experience leading large-scale platform-modernization and standardization programs.

Organizational Context

This position is part of Global IT Operations. It is accountable for platform engineering administration support service performance resilience lifecycle management and operational execution.

Information Security will continue to own security policies control requirements independent risk oversight and exception governance.

The role will operate through established service delivery teams and work closely with existing service managers. It is intended to strengthen cross-platform strategy coordination and executive accountabilitynot replace current service ownership.

The role must also work closely with the Network Server Storage Cloud Manufacturing IT and OT organizations to ensure that identity and collaboration services meet the requirements of Jabils global manufacturing operations.

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