Principal IAM Engineer

Motion Recruitment; Natick (MA); On-site; USD 180,000 - 220,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical Insurance

Dental Benefits

Vision Benefits

Paid Time Off (PTO)

401(k)

Job summary

Motion Recruitment is seeking a Principal IAM/Active Directory Engineer to provide technical leadership across enterprise identity platforms and security services. You will influence strategy, architecture, and operations for identity and access management in a large-scale environment.

The role focuses on active directory, Entra ID, hybrid identity, privileged access, and identity governance, partnering with security, cloud, and infrastructure teams to build scalable, secure identity services

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree and 10+ years of professional experience or equivalent practical experience.
• Deep expertise with Active Directory and Microsoft Entra ID.
• Strong background supporting hybrid identity environments.
• Experience designing authentication, authorization, and identity governance solutions.
• Knowledge of privileged access management and identity security best practices.

Responsibilities

• Provide technical leadership for enterprise identity and access management platforms.
• Design and enhance authentication, authorization, and identity governance capabilities.
• Improve security, resilience, and recoverability of identity infrastructure.
• Lead platform hardening, threat detection, and operational readiness initiatives.
• Drive automation efforts to improve reliability, consistency, and scalability.
• Develop identity architecture standards for applications, services, and cloud platforms.
• Partner with security, engineering, and infrastructure teams on strategic identity initiatives.
• Create and maintain engineering best practices across IAM technologies.
• Support governance and compliance requirements related to identity security.
• Mentor team members and influence long-term identity strategy.

Skills

Active Directory

Microsoft Entra ID

Hybrid identity

Authentication design

Authorization design

Identity governance

Automation scripting

APIs & IaC

CI/CD

Security best practices

Education

Bachelor's degree

Tools

Git-based workflows

Infrastructure as Code

CI/CD tooling

Job description

Job DescriptionA well-established technology organization is seeking a Principal IAM/Active Directory Engineer to provide technical leadership across enterprise identity platforms and security services. This role will play a critical part in shaping the strategy, architecture, security, and operational excellence of identity and access management capabilities across a complex enterprise environment.

The ideal candidate will be responsible for driving improvements across Active Directory, Microsoft Entra ID, hybrid identity, privileged access, identity governance, and non-human identities. This position partners closely with security, cloud, infrastructure, and application teams to ensure scalable, secure, and resilient identity services that support business growth and modernization initiatives.

This is a highly visible engineering role focused on strengthening identity security, driving automation, and establishing best practices across the organization's identity ecosystem.

Required Skills & Experience

• Bachelor's degree and 10+ years of professional experience or equivalent practical experience
• Deep expertise with Active Directory and Microsoft Entra ID
• Strong background supporting hybrid identity environments
• Experience designing authentication, authorization, and identity governance solutions
• Knowledge of privileged access management and identity security best practices
• Experience with identity threat detection, recovery planning, and platform hardening
• Strong automation and scripting capabilities
• Experience with APIs, Infrastructure as Code, and Git-based development workflows
• Hands-on experience with CI/CD methodologies and operational automation
• Knowledge of service principals, managed identities, certificates, secrets, and federated credentials
• Experience designing least-privilege access models and application permission governance

Desired Skills & Experience

• Experience supporting large-scale enterprise IAM environments
• Familiarity with federation, provisioning, and modern authentication technologies
• Knowledge of NIST, ISO 27001, and related security frameworks
• Experience with cloud security and application identity architecture
• Exposure to identity strategies supporting AI-enabled systems and automation platforms
• Experience building enterprise-wide identity standards, guardrails, and governance models

What You Will Be Doing

Daily Responsibilities

• Provide technical leadership for enterprise identity and access management platforms
• Design and enhance authentication, authorization, and identity governance capabilities
• Improve the security, resilience, and recoverability of identity infrastructure
• Lead platform hardening, threat detection, and operational readiness initiatives
• Drive automation efforts to improve reliability, consistency, and scalability
• Develop identity architecture standards for applications, services, and cloud platforms
• Partner with security, engineering, and infrastructure teams on strategic identity initiatives
• Create and maintain engineering best practices across IAM technologies
• Support governance and compliance requirements related to identity security
• Mentor team members and influence long‑term identity strategy

The Offer

• Base salary up to $200,000
• Competitive bonus potential
• Opportunity to lead enterprise‑scale IAM modernization initiatives
• Collaborative and security‑focused engineering environment

You will receive the following benefits

• Medical Insurance
• Dental Benefits
• Vision Benefits
• Paid Time Off (PTO)
• 401(k)

Applicants must be currently authorized to work in the US on a full‑time basis now and in the future.