VP of Identity & Authentication Engineering

New York Life Insurance; Sydney; On-site; AUD 250,000 - 450,000; Full time

Job summary

New York Life Insurance seeks a Corporate Vice President — Head of Authentication Engineering, Identity & Access Management to lead the enterprise authentication strategy, architecture, and reliability across workforce, applications, API, cloud (AWS, Azure, GCP), and emerging AI agent-based access patterns.

This is a builder and technical authority role; you will directly manage the authentication engineering team, drive secure patterns including federation, SSO, MFA, passwordless, and

Qualifications

• Extensive leadership of IAM programs across workforce, apps and cloud.
• Expertise in federation, SSO, MFA, passwordless security patterns.

Responsibilities

• Define enterprise authentication strategy and architecture.
• Directly manage authentication engineering team to deliver reliable patterns.

Job description

New York Life Insurance seeks a Corporate Vice President — Head of Authentication Engineering, Identity & Access Management to lead the enterprise authentication strategy, architecture, and reliability across workforce, applications, API, cloud (AWS, Azure, GCP), and emerging AI agent-based access patterns.

This is a builder and technical authority role; you will directly manage the authentication engineering team, drive secure patterns including federation, SSO, MFA, passwordless, and