Senior Cloud Security & Identity Architecture Leader

Vanguard Australia; City of Melbourne; Hybrid; AUD 180,000 - 240,000; Full time

Job summary

Vanguard Australia is seeking a Senior Manager, Cloud Security Engineering to shape the future of customer identity services and lead the strategy, architecture, engineering excellence, and operational resilience across our identity platforms.

You will lead a team of managers and engineers, drive the security technology roadmap, and ensure secure authentication, authorisation, and identity lifecycle solutions for large-scale customer-facing digital services.

Qualifications

• 10+ years of related technology, cyber security, or identity and access management experience.
• Experience leading CIAM strategy, architecture, engineering, implementation, and production operations for large-scale customer-facing digital services.
• Strong knowledge of customer authentication, authorisation, identity proofing, federation, identity lifecycle management, privacy, fraud risk, and modern identity standards and protocols.
• Proven ability to develop leaders, shape high-performing organisations, manage complex stakeholder relationships, and translate business outcomes into secure and resilient identity capabilities.
• Undergraduate degree in a related field or the equivalent combination of training and experience.

Responsibilities

• Leading and developing managers and multidisciplinary engineering teams responsible for CIAM services and operations.
• Defining and executing the security technology roadmap focused on customer identity capabilities.
• Overseeing the design, implementation, integration, and operation of authentication, authorisation, and identity lifecycle solutions.
• Ensuring the secure, reliable, and resilient operation of production identity services.
• Establishing security standards, architecture patterns, and control requirements to protect customer identities and data.
• Partnering with local and global stakeholders to shape enterprise identity and security strategy.
• Driving strategic technology initiatives, platform modernisation, and continuous improvement across identity services.

Skills

Leadership experience

CIAM strategy

Security architecture

Identity and access management

Stakeholder management

Education

Undergraduate degree in a related field

Job description

Vanguard Australia is seeking a Senior Manager, Cloud Security Engineering to shape the future of customer identity services and lead the strategy, architecture, engineering excellence, and operational resilience across our identity platforms.

You will lead a team of managers and engineers, drive the security technology roadmap, and ensure secure authentication, authorisation, and identity lifecycle solutions for large-scale customer-facing digital services.