IAM Engineering Manager: Identity & Access Leader

Career Techniques; Dallas (TX); Hybrid; USD 170,000 - 210,000; Full time

Job summary

Career Techniques seeks an Engineering Manager, Identity and Access Management, to translate a broad IAM architecture into an executable roadmap and to build a high-performing team. You will mature Entra ID as the governed identity hub, automate joiner/mover/leaver workflows, and advance phishing-resistant authentication and access governance to protect multi-cloud environments.

You will lead a team across workforce, privileged, workload, and federated identity, while partnering with Platform

Qualifications

• 6+ years of experience in identity and access management, security engineering, platform security, or a closely related field.
• 2+ years of people-management or formal engineering-leadership experience.
• Deep expertise in at least one major identity domain (workforce IAM, identity governance, privileged access, workload identity, PKI, or cloud federation).
• Strong experience with Microsoft Entra ID or comparable enterprise identity platform.
• Experience setting a technical roadmap and delivering production identity capabilities.
• Knowledge of OAuth 2.0, OpenID Connect, SAML, SCIM, X.509, and mutual TLS.

Responsibilities

• Recruit, lead, and develop a team of IAM engineers with clear ownership and on-call practices.
• Own the IAM strategy, phased roadmap, and delivery outcomes across workforce, privileged, workload, and federated identity.
• Lead workforce identity programs including identity lifecycle automation, Conditional Access, phishing-resistant authentication, and access governance.
• Define technical direction for workload and service identity, PKI, and certificate lifecycle management across Kubernetes, bare-metal, and cloud environments.
• Establish Zero Standing Privilege for administrative access, including just-in-time elevation and break-glass paths.
• Guide identity federation and token-service design across tenants and cloud platforms with secure issuer trust and token lifetimes.

Skills

IAM

Microsoft Entra ID

Kubernetes

OpenID Connect

PKI

Education

CISSP

Tools

Terraform

Job description

Career Techniques seeks an Engineering Manager, Identity and Access Management, to translate a broad IAM architecture into an executable roadmap and to build a high-performing team. You will mature Entra ID as the governed identity hub, automate joiner/mover/leaver workflows, and advance phishing-resistant authentication and access governance to protect multi-cloud environments.

You will lead a team across workforce, privileged, workload, and federated identity, while partnering with Platform