Principal Engineer (S) - Identity and Access Management

Thrivent; United States; À distance; USD 180 000 - 280 000; Plein temps

Résumé du poste

Thrivent is seeking a Principal Engineer for Identity & Access Management (IAM) to shape the long-term vision for identity security in an AI-enabled enterprise. You will drive Thrivent's IAM strategy, delivering reusable patterns, scalable services, and enterprise standards across portfolios.

You will work at the intersection of cybersecurity, AI, enterprise architecture, and product engineering, mentoring leaders and partnering with executives to ensure Thrivent's identity ecosystem remains

Qualifications

• Deep expertise in identity architecture and IAM governance.
• Experience leading enterprise IAM strategy and programs.
• Strong background in security design, risk assessment, and governance.

Responsabilités

• Provide deep technical leadership for enterprise threat modeling focused on AI-enabled attacks and identity risks.
• Define scalable IAM architectures, engineering practices, and controls for human and non-human identities.
• Lead enterprise identity strategy and governance across portfolios and platforms.
• Advance authentication, authorization, and continuous trust with scalable, product-oriented IAM services.

Connaissances

Identity architecture

AI-enabled threat models

Enterprise security design

Leadership

Description du poste

As a Principal Engineer (PE) within Identity & Access Management (IAM), you will champion and influence long-term vision for identity security in an AI-enabled enterprise. This role is focused on lifting Thrivent’s IAM capabilities by providing technical leadership for Thrivent's Identity and Access Management (IAM) strategy, enabling teams to deliver secure, scalable, observable, and low-friction identity capabilities across the enterprise. The leader will strengthen IAM maturity through enterprise standards, reusable patterns, and modern identity services that can be consistently adopted across portfolios. Success in this role will be measured by the organization’s ability to delivery identity-enabled capabilities more safely and consistently.

As the organization's senior IAM technical authority, this role will shape the future of digital trust by addressing emerging capabilities such as Agentic AI, Generative AI, machine identities, autonomous systems, and digital workforce technologies. The role drives the evolution of authentication, authorization, governance, and identity-centric security, ensuring teams can securely consume IAM capabilities through scalable, composable, and product-oriented services rather than one-off implementations. In addition, this leader is responsible for building and maturing the IAM organization's governance, detection, monitoring, and operational oversight capabilities, enabling proactive management of identity risk, policy compliance, privileged access activities, and emerging identity-based threats across the enterprise. Through the development of sustainable platforms, processes, and engineering practices, the role strengthens the IAM team's ability to govern, monitor, detect, and respond at scale while advancing the organization's overall security posture.

You will operate at the intersection of cybersecurity, AI, enterprise architecture, and product engineering, translating rapidly evolving technology trends into secure, scalable, and resilient identity capabilities so that teams can adopt, operate, and stay up to date with consistent, versioned offerings. The role requires deep expertise in identity architecture, AI-enabled threat models, enterprise security design, and strategic systems thinking. You will influence technology direction across portfolios, establish enterprise standards and guardrails, mentor engineering leaders, and partner with executive stakeholders to ensure Thrivent's identity ecosystem remains secure and future-ready and aligned to product/platform outcomes.

Success in this role will be measured by the organization's ability to deliver identity-enabled capabilities more safely, consistently, and efficiently across the enterprise. This includes building reusable IAM capabilities, patterns, and guardrails that enable and upskill product, engineering, and platform teams to deliver identity-related solutions with greater autonomy and confidence. Success also requires fostering strong cross-functional partnerships to rapidly design and implement secure, scalable solutions, reducing delivery friction while maintaining appropriate governance, risk management, and security outcomes.

DUTIES & RESPONSIBILITIES:

Strategic Responsibilities

• Provide deep technical leadership for enterprise threat modeling efforts focused on AI-enabled attacks, credential abuse, machine identity compromise, and emerging identity-related threats.
• Solve complex identity security challenges associated with agentic AI, synthetic identities, autonomous workflows, and machine-to-machine communications at enterprise scale.
• Champion the enterprise identity strategy to support agentic workforce and processes.
• Lead the technical direction for enterprise identity security by defining and advancing scalable architectures, engineering practices, and security controls for human identities, non-human identities, AI agents, APIs, workloads, and autonomous platforms, driving engineering excellence and secure adoption across teams and platforms.
• Design next-generation approaches to identity governance, privileged access, authentication, authorization, and continuous trust.
• Advance adaptive authentication and risk-based access decisions informed by behavioral analytics, AI-driven risk signals, device posture, and contextual intelligence.
• Drive the integration of AI-powered detection, prevention, and response capabilities into identity security ecosystem.
• Influence technology and security roadmaps across Engineering, Infrastructure, Cyber Defense, Digital, Data, and Enterprise Architecture teams.

Agentic Identity Security

• Lead the technical direction for enterprise identity security by defining and advancing scalable architectures, engineering practices, and security controls for human identities, non-human identities, AI agents, APIs, workloads, and autonomous platforms, driving engineering excellence and secure adoption across teams and platforms.
• Define how AI agents are provisioned, governed, monitored, and decommissioned.
• Establish enterprise controls for agent authorization boundaries, delegated authority, and least-privilege access.
• Create frameworks to manage agent accountability, auditability, and policy enforcement.
• Machine and Non-Human Identity Governance
• Develop enterprise strategies for secrets management, workload identity, service accounts, API security, and machine credential lifecycle management.
• Reduce risks associated with identity sprawl as autonomous systems proliferate.

AI-Driven Identity Operations

• Champion intelligent automation within IAM, leveraging AI to improve access reviews, entitlement analysis, role mining, policy recommendations, and anomaly detection.
• Drive innovation that reduces friction while improving security outcomes.