Senior Cloud IAM Engineering Leader

Synchrony; Florida; Hybrid; USD 135,000 - 230,000; Full time

Job summary

Synchrony is seeking a Cloud IAM Engineering Leader to drive secure access across AWS, Azure, and GCP. You will own end-to-end IAM configurations, automation, and governance, while guiding engineers and aligning with business risk and regulatory requirements.

The role combines hands-on technical leadership with product ownership in a SAFe framework, translating strategy into a clear backlog and secure engineering patterns.

Qualifications

• Bachelor Degree and 8+ years of IAM/cloud security/engineering experience, or 11+ years with a high school diploma.
• Demonstrated leadership guiding engineering delivery and cross‑platform implementations.
• IAM across AWS/Azure/GCP with strong cloud authorization knowledge.
• Hands‑on development and automation using Python and Terraform.

Responsibilities

• Lead design, engineering, testing, deployment, and lifecycle management of IAM access configurations in AWS, Azure, and GCP.
• Own the holistic cloud IAM engineering product including access models, configurations, processes, and automation.
• Establish secure access patterns applying least privilege and reducing standing privilege.

Skills

IAM leadership

Python

Terraform

Okta

SailPoint IIQ

Active Directory

SAFe

Product Owner

Identity Governance

Education

Bachelor's degree

Tools

Terraform

Python

Okta

SailPoint IIQ

Active Directory

Job description

Synchrony is seeking a Cloud IAM Engineering Leader to drive secure access across AWS, Azure, and GCP. You will own end-to-end IAM configurations, automation, and governance, while guiding engineers and aligning with business risk and regulatory requirements.

The role combines hands-on technical leadership with product ownership in a SAFe framework, translating strategy into a clear backlog and secure engineering patterns.