Global Head of Client Identity Engineering

Vanguard; Dallas (TX); Hybrid; USD 180,000 - 280,000; Full time

Job summary

Vanguard is seeking a Head of Client Identity Engineering to define and deliver the company’s global client identity strategy, architecture, and engineering capabilities. You will lead distributed teams responsible for identity proofing, authentication, authorization, federation, and fraud controls across web, mobile, and AI-enabled channels.

The role combines deep technical expertise with executive influence to modernize identity platforms, enhance security, and enable seamless client

Qualifications

• Extensive experience leading global client identity, digital identity, cybersecurity, platform, or application engineering organizations.
• Deep technical knowledge of modern identity architecture, identity proofing, authentication, authorization, federation, OAuth, OpenID Connect, passkeys, APIs, distributed systems.
• Strong understanding of cloud infrastructure, client identity and access management, fraud prevention, privacy, regulatory obligations, resilience, observability, and site reliability engineering.
• Experience governing machine and agentic AI identities, delegated access, consent, dynamic authorization, and auditable autonomous interactions.
• Proven ability to recruit, develop, and retain senior architects, engineers, engineering managers, and technical leaders across global locations.
• Exceptional executive communication, stakeholder influence, financial stewardship, vendor management, and change leadership.

Responsibilities

• Define and execute the global client identity engineering strategy, target architecture, multi-year roadmap, and investment priorities.
• Set the technical vision for identity proofing, authentication, authorization, federation, consent, profile management, digital fraud controls, and identity lifecycle capabilities.
• Advise senior executives on identity risk, client experience, platform modernization, resilience, and emerging opportunities.
• Lead and develop globally distributed engineering teams responsible for architecture, software development, platform engineering, reliability, testing, implementation, and production support.
• Deliver large-scale identity programs through strong product, architecture, engineering, security, risk, and business partnerships.
• Establish reusable platforms, APIs, SDKs, automation, observability, and engineering standards to accelerate adoption across markets.

Skills

Identity architecture

OAuth & OIDC

Cloud platforms

Security engineering

Executive communication

Leadership

AI identity governance

Education

Bachelor's degree in CS or related

Tools

JIRA

Confluence

Job description

Vanguard is seeking a Head of Client Identity Engineering to define and deliver the company’s global client identity strategy, architecture, and engineering capabilities. You will lead distributed teams responsible for identity proofing, authentication, authorization, federation, and fraud controls across web, mobile, and AI-enabled channels.

The role combines deep technical expertise with executive influence to modernize identity platforms, enhance security, and enable seamless client