Senior Director, Identity and Access Management

Baker Tilly Advisory Group; Chicago (IL); On-site; USD 180,000 - 240,000; Full time

Job summary

Baker Tilly is seeking a Senior Director, Identity and Access Management (IAM) to lead a large-scale enterprise IAM strategy and modernization effort. You will own workforce identity, privileged access, and governance across cloud and SaaS platforms, guiding engineering, operations, and product teams.

You will manage a multi-disciplinary team, drive IaC and CI/CD practices, and ensure secure-by-default implementation with high availability and zero-trust principles.

Qualifications

• Set IAM strategy, architecture, and capability roadmap aligned to business and security goals.
• Provide executive ownership for workforce identity, privileged access, identity governance, authentication, authorization, federation, external identity, and directory services.
• Translate business and regulatory requirements into investments, maturity outcomes, and product roadmaps with clear benefits.

Responsibilities

• IAM strategy, architecture, and capability roadmap development.
• IAM engineering across Entra ID, AD, SailPoint, Azure, AWS, and SaaS integrations.
• Operational performance, monitoring, runbooks, and continuous improvement of IAM services.
• Collaborate on IAM product management and maturity initiatives across teams.

Skills

IAM strategy

Architecture

Identity governance

Access management

Cloud platforms

Automation

IaC

CI/CD

Tools

Microsoft Entra ID

Active Directory

SailPoint

Azure

AWS

Databricks

Salesforce

Workday

Job description

Overview

Baker Tilly is a leading advisory, tax and assurance firm, providing clients with a genuine coast-to-coast and global advantage in major regions of the U.S. and in many of the world's leading financial centers - New York, London, San Francisco, Los Angeles, Chicago and Boston. Baker Tilly Advisory Group, LP and Baker Tilly US, LLP (Baker Tilly) provide professional services through an alternative practice structure in accordance with the AICPA Code of Professional Conduct and applicable laws, regulations and professional standards. Baker Tilly US, LLP is a licensed independent CPA firm that provides attest services to its clients. Baker Tilly Advisory Group, LP and its subsidiary entities provide tax and business advisory services to their clients. Baker Tilly Advisory Group, LP and its subsidiary entities are not licensed CPA firms.

Baker Tilly Advisory Group, LP and Baker Tilly US, LLP, trading as Baker Tilly, are independent members of Baker Tilly International, a worldwide network of independent accounting and business advisory firms in 141 territories, with 43,000 professionals and a combined worldwide revenue of $5.2 billion. Visit bakertilly.com or join the conversation on LinkedIn, Facebook and Instagram.

Please discuss the work location status with your Baker Tilly talent acquisition professional to understand the requirements for an opportunity you are exploring.

Baker Tilly is an equal opportunity/affirmative action employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, national origin, disability or protected veteran status, gender identity, sexual orientation, or any other legally protected basis, in accordance with applicable federal, state or local law.

Job Description:

Baker Tilly is hiring a The Senior Director, Identity and Access Management (IAM) for our Enterprise IT team. This leader will define and execute a modern identity strategy for a large, complex enterprise of more than 15,000 users; improve IAM maturity, reliability, automation, and user experience; and ensure identity services securely enable workforce, privileged, B2B, and B2C use cases across cloud and SaaS platforms. The role leads people, platforms, partners, and operational outcomes across a variety of identity and security technologies.

Responsibilities:

• Set IAM strategy, architecture, and capability roadmap (25%)

  Define the enterprise IAM strategy, target-state architecture, reference patterns, standards, and multi-year capability roadmap aligned to business, security, cloud, data, and application strategies.

  Provide executive ownership for workforce identity, privileged access, identity governance, authentication, authorization, federation, external identity, machine/non-human identity, and directory services.

  Translate business and regulatory requirements into sequenced investments, measurable maturity outcomes, and product/capability roadmaps with clear dependencies and benefits.

• IAM engineering, platform modernization, and IaC (20%)

  Lead IAM engineering across Microsoft Entra ID, Active Directory, SailPoint, Azure, AWS, Databricks, Salesforce, Workday, and supporting integration platforms.

  Establish and scale Infrastructure as Code (IaC), policy-as-code, automated testing, CI/CD, reusable modules, version control, and environment promotion practices for identity platforms.

  Drive modernization away from manual, one-off administration toward API-first, event-driven, automated, resilient, and observable identity services.

  Ensure architecture and engineering patterns support high availability, disaster recovery, zero trust, least privilege, and secure-by-default implementation.

• IAM operations, reliability, and service management (20%)

  Own operational performance and service health for enterprise IAM services, including incident/problem management, monitoring, alerting, capacity, resilience, lifecycle management, and vendor support.

  Establish measurable service levels, operational KPIs/KRIs, runbooks, on-call/escalation models, and continuous-improvement mechanisms.

  Reduce operational toil and access-related risk through automation, self-service, proactive detection, root‑c, root‑cause elimination, and disciplined problem management.

  Oversee joiner/mover/leaver execution and access lifecycle controls spanning Workday, SailPoint, Entra ID/Active Directory, SaaS applications, and cloud platforms.

• IAM product/capability management and maturit