VP Cloud IAM Engineering Leader — Remote

Synchrony; Stamford (CT); Hybrid; USD 135,000 - 230,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Work from home flexibility

Hybrid office model

Job summary

Synchrony is seeking an Cloud IAM Engineering Leader to drive secure access across AWS, Azure, and GCP. You will own IAM configurations, automation, and governance, partnering with the Cloud IAM Leader to translate strategy into engineering roadmaps.

You will serve as Product Owner within a SAFe Agile Release Train and mentor a growing team. You will balance new capabilities with risk management, drive least- privilege controls, and coordinate with enterprise identity teams to deliver scalable,

Qualifications

• Bachelor degree and 8+ years in identity and access management, cloud security, platform engineering, security engineering, or related field.
• 3+ years of technical leadership guiding engineering delivery, architecture decisions, or cross-platform implementations.
• Experience with IAM on at least two major cloud platforms (AWS, Azure, GCP).
• Hands-on development and automation using Python and Terraform.
• Experience with Okta, SailPoint IIQ, and Active Directory integrations.
• Experience with SAFe, Agile Release Trains, PI Planning, backlog prioritization, and PO responsibilities.
• Knowledge of IGA principles, identity lifecycle, provisioning, access certification, and deprovisioning.
• Experience with policy as code, automated security testing, drift detection, remediation workflows.

Responsibilities

• Lead design, engineering, testing, deployment, and lifecycle management of IAM configurations across AWS, Azure, GCP.
• Own the cloud IAM engineering product — access models, configurations, processes, and automation.
• Establish secure access patterns and least-privilege controls for human and workload identities.
• Lead engineering guardrails, tests, logging, drift detection, and rollback practices for access changes.
• Serve as Product Owner in SAFe, prioritizing features, stories, and acceptance criteria.
• Coordinate identity integrations and ensure regulatory and control compliance.
• Mentor engineers and drive secure development and continuous learning.

Skills

Technical leadership

AWS

Azure

GCP

Cloud authorization concepts

Privilege escalation

Python

Terraform

SAFe / Agile

Product Owner

Agile delivery

Policy as code

Automated security testing

Education

Bachelor Degree

High School Diploma / GED

Tools

Okta

SailPoint IIQ

Active Directory

Job description

Synchrony is seeking an Cloud IAM Engineering Leader to drive secure access across AWS, Azure, and GCP. You will own IAM configurations, automation, and governance, partnering with the Cloud IAM Leader to translate strategy into engineering roadmaps.

You will serve as Product Owner within a SAFe Agile Release Train and mentor a growing team. You will balance new capabilities with risk management, drive least- privilege controls, and coordinate with enterprise identity teams to deliver scalable,