Identity Platform Lead — Okta & Zero Trust

Vanguard; Malvern (Chester County); Hybrid; USD 150,000 - 190,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Visa sponsorship

Job summary

Vanguard in Malvern, PA, is seeking a Senior Lead Identity Engineer to provide technical leadership for our workforce identity platform, with deep expertise in Okta and modern IAM standards.

You will design, operate, and evolve enterprise-scale identity platforms, collaborating with security, engineering, and executive teams to deliver resilient, compliant solutions in a hybrid work environment.

Qualifications

• 12+ years of Identity & Access Management engineering experience.

Responsibilities

• Serve as technical lead for workforce identity platforms, with Okta as the primary IdP.
• Own end-to-end identity architecture, including authentication flows, federation, directory integrations, and token issuance.
• Lead design reviews and decisions for IdP resiliency, failover, and supplier-risk mitigation strategies.
• Document existing and new architecture and act as a hands-on engineer while also setting technical direction, patterns, and standards.
• Strong communication, influence, and stakeholder-management skills, with the ability to distill complex identity and security architectures into clear and concise messaging

Skills

Okta expertise

Ping Identity

OAuth/OIDC/SAML

DevOps tools

Policy as code

LDAP/AD

AWS/GCP deployments

Kubernetes deployments

Architectural leadership

Stakeholder management

Education

Bachelor's degree

Tools

Okta

PingFederate

PingOne

Ping Directory

Terraform

CloudFormation

Kubernetes

Job description

Vanguard in Malvern, PA, is seeking a Senior Lead Identity Engineer to provide technical leadership for our workforce identity platform, with deep expertise in Okta and modern IAM standards.

You will design, operate, and evolve enterprise-scale identity platforms, collaborating with security, engineering, and executive teams to deliver resilient, compliant solutions in a hybrid work environment.