Executive IAM Leader: Identity Security & Governance

LPL Employee Services; New York (NY); On-site; USD 213,000 - 354,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Competitive compensation

401K matching

Health benefits

Employee stock options

Paid time off

Job summary

LPL Financial is seeking a Senior Vice President, Identity & Access Management (IAM) to lead enterprise IAM, governance, and platform modernization. You will drive strategic direction for IGA, PAM, SSO, MFA, and cloud identity services while ensuring regulatory compliance and business enablement across the firm.

The role reports to the CISO and collaborates with Technology, Risk, Compliance, and business leaders to advance zero-trust, automation, and resilience across identity platforms.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Information Security, Computer Science, Information Systems, Engineering, or related discipline.
• 15+ years of progressive leadership experience in cybersecurity, identity management, or enterprise technology.
• 8+ years leading large-scale IAM, cybersecurity, or security engineering organizations.
• Deep expertise in Identity Governance & Administration (IGA).
• Privileged Access Management (PAM).
• Single Sign-On (SSO).
• Multi-Factor Authentication (MFA).
• Federation and authentication platforms.
• Directory Services and cloud identity technologies.
• Experience leading enterprise transformation and modernization programs.
• Demonstrated success managing large, geographically dispersed technical organizations.
• Strong executive communication and stakeholder management skills.

Responsibilities

• Lead the vision, strategy, and execution of LPL's Identity & Access Management program.
• Establish a multi-year IAM roadmap aligned to Cybersecurity and Technology priorities.
• Serve as the senior leader accountable for IAM operations, platform stability, service delivery, and risk management.
• Drive continuous improvement of identity controls, governance processes, and operational effectiveness.
• Develop and maintain executive-level reporting on IAM risks, priorities, performance, and organizational health.
• Lead Identity Governance and Administration programs, including provisioning, deprovisioning, access certification, role management, and segregation-of-duties controls.
• Ensure adherence to least-privilege and Zero Trust security principles across the enterprise.
• Establish IAM policies, standards, and governance frameworks.
• Partner with Risk and Compliance teams to ensure alignment with regulatory and audit requirements.
• Oversee IAM engineering, production support, and operational teams responsible for enterprise identity platforms.
• Lead modernization efforts across Ping Identity, ForgeRock, Active Directory, Entra ID, authentication services, federation, and Single Sign-On capabilities.
• Ensure scalability, resiliency, and operational excellence across critical identity infrastructure.
• Drive automation and reduction of manual operational processes to improve reliability and risk management.
• Lead strategy and governance for privileged access across users, systems, applications, and service accounts.
• Strengthen access controls through centralized governance, monitoring, and least-privileged access models.
• Ensure effective controls over administrative and elevated access activities.
• Own resilience and availability strategies for critical IAM platforms and services.
• Lead initiatives related to disaster recovery, high availability, identity provider resiliency, and business continuity planning.
• Partner with Architecture and Engineering teams to improve platform reliability and reduce operational risk.
• Establish metrics and accountability frameworks supporting production stability and change governance.
• Lead and develop a high-performing organization consisting of leaders, architects, engineers, analysts, and support professionals.
• Foster a culture of accountability, collaboration, innovation, and continuous improvement.
• Develop succession plans and organizational capabilities to support future growth.
• Manage budgets, vendor relationships, workforce planning, and strategic investments.
• Thrive in a fast-paced, high-growth environment where scale, priorities, and organizational structure evolve quickly.
• Balance pace and pragmatism with disciplined risk management, favoring practical progress over process for its own sake.
• Build trust and credibility quickly across a highly matrixed organization, earning confidence from business partners, technology peers, auditors, and regulators alike.
• Lead confidently through ambiguity, translating strategic intent into action even where processes or org structures are still maturing.
• Be a visible, hands-on leader who coaches, empowers, and grows the team as the organization scales.
• Bring resilience and an ownership mindset, adapting readily as business priorities, regulatory expectations, and the threat landscape shift.
• Communicates with transparency and executive presence, building confidence with senior leadership, the Board, and regulators.

Skills

Identity Governance & Administration

Privileged Access Management

Single Sign-On

Multi-Factor Authentication

Executive leadership

Strategic planning

Regulatory compliance

Education

Bachelor's degree in Information Security or related

Tools

Ping Identity

ForgeRock

Active Directory

Entra ID

Identity platforms

Job description

LPL Financial is seeking a Senior Vice President, Identity & Access Management (IAM) to lead enterprise IAM, governance, and platform modernization. You will drive strategic direction for IGA, PAM, SSO, MFA, and cloud identity services while ensuring regulatory compliance and business enablement across the firm.

The role reports to the CISO and collaborates with Technology, Risk, Compliance, and business leaders to advance zero-trust, automation, and resilience across identity platforms.