Senior IAM Leader: Zero-Trust & Enterprise Identity

Databricks; California (MO); On-site; USD 217,000 - 265,000; Full time

Job summary

Databricks seeks a Senior Manager of Identity & Access Management to lead enterprise IAM strategy, architecture, and governance across employees, customers, and platform services. You will shape the IAM roadmap and partner with security, IT, compliance, and product teams to ensure secure, scalable identity services.

You will build scalable identity foundations, drive SSO, MFA, RBAC/ABAC, PAM, and Zero Trust, aligning with modern security controls and regulatory requirements.

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.
• RBAC and ABAC, PAM, identity lifecycle automation, directory services, just-in-time access, least-privilege.
• 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.).
• Cross-functional partnership with IT, Product Security, Cloud Infrastructure, and Engineering to embed identity best practices.

Skills

IAM technologies

Directories

Authentication protocols (SAML, OIDC,)

OAuth

Cloud environments (AWS/GCP/Azure)

Zero Trust

Privileged Access Management

Identity governance

Leadership

Stakeholder management

Job description

Databricks seeks a Senior Manager of Identity & Access Management to lead enterprise IAM strategy, architecture, and governance across employees, customers, and platform services. You will shape the IAM roadmap and partner with security, IT, compliance, and product teams to ensure secure, scalable identity services.

You will build scalable identity foundations, drive SSO, MFA, RBAC/ABAC, PAM, and Zero Trust, aligning with modern security controls and regulatory requirements.