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Job Description:
Baker Tilly is hiring a The Senior Director, Identity and Access Management (IAM) for our Enterprise IT team. This leader will define and execute a modern identity strategy for a large, complex enterprise of more than 15,000 users; improve IAM maturity, reliability, automation, and user experience; and ensure identity services securely enable workforce, privileged, B2B, and B2C use cases across cloud and SaaS platforms. The role leads people, platforms, partners, and operational outcomes across a variety of identity and security technologies.
Responsibilities:Set IAM strategy, architecture, and capability roadmap (25%)- Define the enterprise IAM strategy, target-state architecture, reference patterns, standards, and multi-year capability roadmap aligned to business, security, cloud, data, and application strategies.
- Provide executive ownership for workforce identity, privileged access, identity governance, authentication, authorization, federation, external identity, machine/non-human identity, and directory services.
- Translate business and regulatory requirements into sequenced investments, measurable maturity outcomes, and product/capability roadmaps with clear dependencies and benefits.
IAM engineering, platform modernization, and IaC (20%)- Lead IAM engineering across Microsoft Entra ID, Active Directory, SailPoint, Azure, AWS, Databricks, Salesforce, Workday, and supporting integration platforms.
- Establish and scale Infrastructure as Code (IaC), policy-as-code, automated testing, CI/CD, reusable modules, version control, and environment promotion practices for identity platforms.
- Drive modernization away from manual, one-off administration toward API-first, event-driven, automated, resilient, and observable identity services.
- Ensure architecture and engineering patterns support high availability, disaster recovery, zero trust, least privilege, and secure-by-default implementation.
IAM operations, reliability, and service management (20%)- Own operational performance and service health for enterprise IAM services, including incident/problem management, monitoring, alerting, capacity, resilience, lifecycle management, and vendor support.
- Establish measurable service levels, operational KPIs/KRIs, runbooks, on-call/escalation models, and continuous-improvement mechanisms.
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