CIAM Engineering Lead — IAM & Automation

State Street; Princeton (NJ); On-site; USD 125,000 - 215,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

401K with company match

Medical Insurance (Health)

Dental & Vision Coverage

Paid Time Off

Employee Assistance Program

Incentive Compensation

Tax-Advantaged Savings Plans

Job summary

State Street is seeking an IAM Engineering Manager to lead the CIAM team in delivering secure identity governance and access management solutions. This hands-on leadership role emphasizes automation, integrations with ForgeRock, and collaboration across IT and security to scale IAM across enterprise assets.

You will mentor engineers, design scalable IAM architectures, and stay ahead of evolving identity standards.

Qualifications

• Strong understanding of IAM principles: provisioning, de-provisioning, access reviews, RBAC, least privilege.
• Proven leadership and people management skills with ability to mentor engineers.
• Familiarity with identity protocols (SAML, OAuth, OIDC) and directory services (LDAP/AD).
• Experience with REST APIs, system authentication methods, and SCIM.
• Experience on cloud platforms (Azure, AWS) and hybrid identity environments.

Responsibilities

• Manage lifecycle management integrations for IGA, leveraging ForgeRock to meet IAM program objectives.
• Design and implement IAM solutions, architect accelerators for automating IAM processes, and improve service delivery and scalability.
• Analyze and troubleshoot IAM system issues, perform root cause analyses, and implement durable fixes.
• Collaborate with IT, security, and business units to extend IAM controls across assets; align with application teams.
• Monitor IAM operations for SOP compliance and provide technical guidance to junior engineers.
• Conduct research on emerging IAM trends and drive continuous improvement and innovation.
• Create knowledge articles, architecture diagrams, and SOPs for IAM infrastructure.

Skills

IAM fundamentals

Provisioning & De-provisioning

RBAC & Access Reviews

Leadership & Mentorship

SAML / OAuth / OIDC

REST APIs & Authentication

Cloud familiarity (Azure/AWS)

Cross-functional collaboration

Tools

ForgeRock

Okta

CyberArk

Ping Identity

LDAP/Active Directory

Job description

State Street is seeking an IAM Engineering Manager to lead the CIAM team in delivering secure identity governance and access management solutions. This hands-on leadership role emphasizes automation, integrations with ForgeRock, and collaboration across IT and security to scale IAM across enterprise assets.

You will mentor engineers, design scalable IAM architectures, and stay ahead of evolving identity standards.