Senior IAM Platform Leader - Secure, Automated Access

Blue Shield of CA

Long Beach (CA)

Hybrid

USD 180,000 - 240,000

Full time

14 days+

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Job summary

Stellarus is seeking a Senior Manager, Identity Platform Engineering to design, implement, and operate scalable IAM capabilities across hybrid cloud, SaaS, on‑premises, and AI-enabled environments. You will lead security engineering and platform teams, shaping identity governance, lifecycle management, and privileged access strategies to enable secure software delivery.

You will partner with development, security, and DevOps teams to deliver self-service IAM, API-driven services, and

Qualifications

8+ years of experience designing, implementing, and supporting enterprise IAM solutions.
4+ years of prior people management experience with direct responsibility for supervising, coaching, and evaluating direct reports.
Experience leading IAM, security engineering, platform engineering, cloud, infrastructure, or related technical teams.
Strong understanding of Identity Lifecycle Management, Joiner/Mover/Leaver processes, Identity Governance, and Privileged Access Management within complex hybrid cloud, SaaS, and on-premises environments.
Deep understanding of Role-Based Access Control, Attribute-Based Access Control, policy-based access control, Just-in-Time, just-enough, time-bound, and Least Privilege security models.
Strong knowledge of authentication and authorization frameworks, including Single Sign-On, Multi-Factor Authentication, SAML, OAuth 2.0, OpenID Connect, SCIM, and modern identity federation technologies across enterprise and consumer ecosystems.
Experience implementing and supporting enterprise identity governance, access management, directory, privileged access, cloud identity, HR, and application integration platforms.
Experience delivering identity as a platform capability, including self-service, API-driven, and developer-consumable IAM services for application, cloud, platform, and security engineering teams.
Experience developing automation using scripting languages, REST APIs, workflow automation, or similar programming approaches.
Experience implementing DevOps or platform engineering practices, including CI/CD, Infrastructure as Code, configuration-as-code, policy-as-code, automated testing, automated deployment, observability, and operational reliability.
Strong understanding of cloud identity and access patterns, including workload identity, service identities, managed identities, secrets management, key management, privileged access controls, and machine-to-machine access.
Experience integrating IAM capabilities into enterprise applications, cloud services, SaaS platforms, infrastructure platforms, and modern software development lifecycles.
Experience applying identity controls to AI-enabled systems, including AI agents, copilots, intelligent automation, machine identities, data access workflows, human-in-the-loop approvals, audit logging, and least-privilege access to sensitive enterprise data.
Experience leveraging AI-assisted development, intelligent automation, or machine learning technologies to improve operational efficiency, accelerate identity engineering, enhance access governance, or improve risk detection.