Director, Active Directory Engineering

USAA Life Insurance Company; San Antonio (TX); Hybrid; USD 180,000 - 280,000; Full time

Job summary

USAA Life Insurance Company is seeking a Director of Active Directory Engineering to lead the directory platforms and services that support Workforce Identity and Access Management. The role emphasizes strategy, architecture, modernization, and lifecycle management of Active Directory to ensure security, availability and scalability.

The position requires in-office work four days a week in San Antonio, TX, or Plano, TX, with relocation assistance available for the right candidate.

Responsibilities

• Lead the Active Directory Engineering organization and establish the engineering strategy and multi-year technology roadmap for AD and related enterprise directory infrastructure.
• Ensure security, reliability, resiliency, availability, scalability, and recoverability of enterprise directory services.
• Partner across Workforce IAM, Cybersecurity, Infrastructure, Cloud, and application engineering to translate identity requirements into scalable capabilities.
• Lead modernization and evolution of enterprise directory services, including hybrid identity architecture, AD security hardening, automation, cloud integration, and reducing legacy dependencies.
• Own strategic ownership of critical security domains or capabilities, develops multi-year roadmaps and guides senior managers.
• Govern the short- and long-term strategic vision, goals, metrics, and policies for the information security domain.
• Direct operation of an enterprise information security domain including capacity, resilience and dependability considerations.
• Develop and communicate information security risk management policies with the CISO and senior leaders.
• Interface with external regulators to represent USAA in security-domain discussions.
• Oversee continuous monitoring of cybersecurity activities and alert leadership to risks and compliance issues.
• Develop governance and assurance model across multiple domains and the Enterprise.
• Identify, monitor and evaluate operational solutions to reduce information security risk and increase workforce efficiency.
• Promote information security awareness across the enterprise and with the external security community.
• Manage manpower and budgets to cost-effectively meet organizational needs.
• Build and oversee a team through recruiting, development, retention, coaching and performance management.
• Ensure risks are identified, measured, monitored, and controlled per risk and compliance policies.

Education

Bachelor's degree in Information Se

Job description

Why USAA?

At USAA, our mission is to empower our members to achieve financial security through highly competitive products, exceptional service and trusted advice. We seek to be the #1 choice for the military community and their families.

Embrace a fulfilling career at USAA, where our core values - honesty, integrity, loyalty and service - define how we treat each other and our members. Be part of what truly makes us special and impactful.

We are proud to support active-duty military spouses. USAA roles may offer remote or hybrid flexibility for active-duty military spouses consistent with applicable policy and business needs.

The Opportunity

As a dedicated Director, Active Directory Engineering, you will lead the engineering organization responsible for the critical directory platforms, infrastructure, and services that enable USAA's Workforce Identity and Access Management capabilities. You will be accountable for the strategy, architecture, engineering, modernization, resiliency, and lifecycle of Active Directory and related enterprise directory services, ensuring these foundational identity capabilities remain secure, highly available, scalable, and positioned to support USAA's evolving identity and technology needs.

We offer a flexible work environment that requires an individual to be in the office 4 days per week. This position can be based in one of the following locations: San Antonio, TX, or Plano, TX. Relocation assistance is available for this position.

What you'll do:

• Lead the Active Directory Engineering organization and establish the engineering strategy and multi-year technology roadmap for Active Directory and related enterprise directory infrastructure, integrations, and services that provide foundational identity capabilities across USAA.
• Ensure the security, reliability, resiliency, availability, scalability, and recoverability of enterprise directory services by establishing engineering standards, platform health metrics, capacity planning, lifecycle management, disaster recovery, and operational readiness expectations for this critical identity infrastructure.
• Partner across Workforce IAM, Cybersecurity, Infrastructure, Cloud, and application engineering teams to translate identity and authentication requirements into scalable engineering capabilities, strengthening directory security, identity integration, and access controls.
• Lead the modernization and evolution of enterprise directory services, including hybrid identity architecture, Active Directory security hardening, automation, legacy dependency reduction, cloud integration, and the transition toward modern identity patterns that reduce reliance on legacy authentication and strengthen USAA's identity security posture.
• Responsible for strategic ownership of critical security domains or capabilities, develops multi-year roadmaps and/or a leader of Manager Seniors.
• Establishes and ensures compliant execution of their information security domain's short- and long-term strategic vision, strategy, goals, and metrics and governs the overall policies, standards, and procedures for their assigned information security domain.
• Directs and ensures effective operation of an enterprise information security domain including capacity, resilience and dependability capabilities and how changes in conditions, operations, or the environment will affect the system's operation.
• Develops, reviews and communicates information security risk management policies and procedures in partnership with the Chief Information Security Officer (CISO) and other senior leaders to ensure appropriateness and adequacy versus industry best practices and regulatory requirements.
• Interfaces with external regulators to represent USAA in discussions regarding their specific information security domain.
• Oversees the continuous monitoring of cybersecurity activities and alerts senior management to potential risks, compliance issues, and operational inefficiencies.
• Develops, designs, and delivers a sustainable governance and assurance model across multiple domains and the Enterprise.
• Identifies, monitors and evaluates operational solutions to reduce information security risk, meet compliance requirements and increase enterprise workforce efficiency, business agility and workforce scalability.
• Promotes information security awareness across the enterprise and with the external security community.
• Serves as financial steward for the organization and manages manpower and budgets to ensure they cost-effectively meet the needs of the organization.
• Builds and oversees a team of employees for assigned functional area through ongoing execution of recruiting, development, retention, coaching and support, performance management, and managerial activities.
• Ensures risks associated with business activities are effectively identified, measured, monitored, and controlled in accordance with risk and compliance policies and procedures.

What you have:

Bachelor's degree in Information Se