Director, CIAM Platform Engineering & Identity Security

Vizient, Inc.

Irving (TX)

On-site

USD 135,000 - 237,000

Full time

4 days ago
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Job summary

Vizient, Inc. is seeking a senior technical leader to design and execute the CIAM strategy across enterprise SaaS products.

You will define long-term roadmaps for authentication and authorization, build secure reusable services, and enable teams to consume identity capabilities via APIs, SDKs, and self-service patterns. You will drive modernization, champion platform adoption, and guide engineers through secure, scalable delivery while aligning with business priorities and regulatory

Qualifications

  • Degree in CS/Engineering or related field with advanced degree preferred.
  • 7+ years of relevant leadership experience in SaaS/enterprise tech.
  • Extensive software engineering leadership in identity and access management, security, or core infra.

Responsibilities

  • Define multi-year CIAM strategy and roadmap for enterprise SaaS.
  • Lead modernization of authorization via frameworks: RBAC, ABAC, ReBAC, policy-as-code.
  • Develop scalable identity services for humans, workloads, and AI agents.
  • Oversee CIAM platform architecture, security, availability, and reliability.

Skills

Leadership
Strategic planning
Platform engineering
Cloud-native
DevOps practices

Education

Bachelor's or advanced degree in CS/Engineering

Tools

Azure
AWS
Kubernetes
OAuth 2.0
OIDC
SAML

Job description

Vizient, Inc. is seeking a senior technical leader to design and execute the CIAM strategy across enterprise SaaS products.

You will define long-term roadmaps for authentication and authorization, build secure reusable services, and enable teams to consume identity capabilities via APIs, SDKs, and self-service patterns. You will drive modernization, champion platform adoption, and guide engineers through secure, scalable delivery while aligning with business priorities and regulatory

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