Senior Identity Platform Engineering Leader

Blue Shield of CA

Miami (FL)

Hybrid

USD 150,000 - 210,000

Full time

14 days+

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Job summary

Stellarus seeks a Senior Manager, Identity Platform Engineering to design, implement, and run enterprise IAM capabilities across hybrid cloud, SaaS, on-premises, and AI-enabled environments. You will lead security, automation, and scalable identity services that empower development teams with self-service, least-privilege access, and policy-driven governance.

In this role you will mentor a diverse engineering team, shape IAM strategy, partner with cross-functional groups, and advance DevOps

Qualifications

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Information Systems, Cybersecurity, Engineering, or equivalent combination of education and experience.
8+ years of experience designing, implementing, and supporting enterprise Identity and Access Management 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.
Deep understanding of RBAC, ABAC, policy-based access control, Just-in-Time, just-enough, time-bound, and Least Privilege security models.
Strong knowledge of authentication and authorization frameworks, including SSO, MFA, SAML, OAuth 2.0, OpenID Connect, SCIM, and modern identity federation technologies.
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.

Responsibilities

Shape the future of Stellarus' identity platform by engineering secure, automated, and scalable IAM capabilities.
Partner with teams to integrate identity into modern software delivery practices, accelerating automation through DevOps and AI.
Deliver programmatic identity services that development teams can consume through self-service, least-privilege, time-bound, and policy-governed patterns.
Lead and develop a high-performing, diverse engineering team.
Support hybrid cloud, SaaS, on-premises identity deployments.