Senior IAM Leader: Zero Trust & Enterprise Access

Databricks; United States; Remote; USD 217,000 - 265,000; Full time

Job summary

Databricks is seeking an experienced Senior Manager of Identity & Access Management (IAM) to lead global IAM strategy, architecture, and execution across employees, customers, and platform services. You will own identity services at scale, partnering with engineering, security, IT, compliance, and product teams to deliver secure by default solutions.

The role demands 8–12+ years in security/identity engineering with deep IAM technology expertise, cloud experience (AWS/GCP/Azure), and a track

Qualifications

• 8–12+ years of experience in security, identity engineering, or related technical fields.
• Deep technical expertise in modern IAM technologies, directories, authentication protocols (SAML, OIDC, OAuth), and identity standards.
• Hands-on architecture or engineering experience within cloud environments (AWS/GCP/Azure).
• Experience implementing Zero Trust identity models and privileged access management frameworks.
• Strong understanding of identity governance, compliance requirements, and audit processes.
• Proven track record of leading high-performing teams and delivering complex, cross-functional programs.
• Excellent communication, influencing, and stakeholder management skills.

Responsibilities

• Define the long-term IAM strategy, roadmap, and operating model across the enterprise and product ecosystem.
• Build scalable identity foundations that support global growth, cloud expansion, and evolving business needs.
• Establish best practices for identity lifecycle management, authentication, authorization, provisioning, and governance.
• Manage and grow IAM engineering and operations teams responsible for identity services, infrastructure, and tooling.
• Mentor technical leads and engineers; foster a high-performance and high-accountability culture.
• Develop effective team structures and prioritize workstreams aligned to business and security priorities.
• Lead the design and implementation of IAM capabilities including SSO, MFA, and federated identity.
• Drive modernization of legacy systems and implementation of Zero Trust identity principles.
• Ensure scalability, high availability, and strong security controls across all identity platforms.
• Own identity governance programs including access reviews, audit readiness, onboarding/offboarding controls, and policy enforcement.
• Partner with compliance, risk, and legal teams to meet regulatory requirements (SOC2, ISO, FedRAMP, SOX, GDPR, etc.).
• Ensure operational rigor, strong documentation, and sustainable controls that withstand audits and customer expectations.
• Work closely with IT, Product Security, Cloud Infrastructure, and Engineering to embed identity best practices throughout the organization.
• Collaborate with product teams to ensure customer-facing identity capabilities are secure, intuitive, and scalable.

Skills

IAM technologies

Cloud platforms

Zero Trust

RBAC/ABAC

SAML/OIDC/OAuth

Leadership

Security governance

Job description

Databricks is seeking an experienced Senior Manager of Identity & Access Management (IAM) to lead global IAM strategy, architecture, and execution across employees, customers, and platform services. You will own identity services at scale, partnering with engineering, security, IT, compliance, and product teams to deliver secure by default solutions.

The role demands 8–12+ years in security/identity engineering with deep IAM technology expertise, cloud experience (AWS/GCP/Azure), and a track