Senior Manager, Identity & Access Management

Experience: Not Available to Not Available years

Location: Bangalore, Karnataka, India

Skills: Identity & Access Management (IAM), Single Sign-On (SSO), Multi-Factor Authentication (MFA), Federated Identity, Role-Based Access Control (RBAC), Attribute-Based Access Control (ABAC), Privileged Access Management (PAM), Identity Governance and Administration (IGA), Identity Lifecycle Automation, Active Directory Services, Just-in-Time Access, Least-Privilege Models, Zero Trust Principles, SAML, OIDC Connect, OAuth, SCIM, AWS, OCI, Azure, SOC2, ISO 27001, SOX, GDPR, NIST CSF, NIST AI RMF

What You’ll Do
Strategic Leadership • 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.
Build and Lead High-Performing Teams • 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.
IAM Architecture & Engineering • Lead the design and implementation of IAM capabilities including:
• Single Sign-On (SSO), MFA, and federated identity
• Role-Based Access Control (RBAC) and Attribute-Based Access Control (ABAC)
• Privileged Access Management (PAM), Identity Governance and Administration (IGA)
• Identity lifecycle automation
• Active Directory services and identity stores
• Just-in-time access and least-privilege models
• Drive modernization of legacy systems and implementation of Zero Trust identity principles.
• Ensure scalability, high availability, and strong security controls across all identity platforms.
Governance, Compliance & Risk • 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 27001, SOX, GDPR, etc.).
• Ensure operational rigor, strong documentation, and sustainable controls that withstand audits and customer expectations.
Cross-Functional Partnership • Work closely with Infrastructure, Product Security, Cloud Engineering, Customer Service,



and Engineering to embed identity best practices throughout the organization.
• Collaborate with product teams to ensure customer-facing identity capabilities are secure, intuitive, and scalable.
• Build strong relationships with internal stakeholders and serve as a trusted advisor on identity issues.

What You Bring
• 12+ years of experience in security, identity engineering, or related technical fields
• Deep technical expertise in modern IAM technologies, directories, authentication protocols (SAML, OIDC Connect, OAuth), and identity standards.
• Hands-on architecture or engineering experience within cloud environments (AWS/OCI/Azure).
• Experience implementing Zero Trust identity models and privileged access management frameworks.
• Solid understanding of identity governance, compliance requirements, and internal/external audit processes.
• Proven track record of leading high-performing teams and delivering complex, cross-functional programs.
• Excellent communication, influencing, and stakeholder management skills.

Responsibilities
We are looking for an experienced and forward-thinking Senior Manager of Identity & Access Management (IAM) to lead the teams responsible for building and operating our enterprise-wide identity, authentication, authorization, and access governance systems. This is a highly cross-functional leadership role partnering with across the company to deliver identity services that are reliable and secure by default.
• 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.
Build and Lead High-Performing Teams • Manage and grow IAM engineering and operations teams responsible for identity services, infrastructure, and tooling.
• Mentor 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: Single Sign-On (SSO), MFA, federated identity,



and CI/CD best practices.
• Identity lifecycle automation
• Active Directory services and identity stores
• Just-in-time access and least-privilege models
• 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 27001, SOX, GDPR etc.).
• Ensure operational rigor, strong documentation, and sustainable controls that withstand internal/external audits and customer expectations.
• Work closely with various departments to embed identity best practices throughout the organization.
• Collaborate with product teams to ensure customer-facing identity capabilities are secure, intuitive, and scalable.
• Build strong relationships with internal stakeholders and serve as a trusted advisor on identity issues.

Qualifications
• Bachelor’s degree in computer or a related technical field
• 12+ years of experience in security, identity engineering, or related technical fields
• CI/CD best practices
• Role-Based Access Control (RBAC) and Attribute-Based Access Control (ABAC)
• Privileged Access Management (PAM)
• Deep technical expertise in modern IAM technologies, directories, authentication protocols (SAML, OIDC Connect, OAuth, SCIM), and identity standards
• Hands-on architecture or engineering experience within cloud environments (AWS/Azure/OCI)
• Experience implementing Zero Trust identity models and privileged access management frameworks
• Strong understanding of identity governance, compliance requirements, and audit processes
• Experience with enterprise IAM issues relating to business processes, emerging technologies, AI and ML, CRM, ERP, HRM, and other business workflows
• Experience defining security KPIs, metrics, and executive reporting frameworks
• Proven track record of leading high-performing teams and delivering complex, cross-functional programs
• Excellent communication, influencing, and stakeholder management skills
• Lead and shape the future of the company’s identity strategy during a period of rapid growth
• Solve complex IAM challenges across cloud, SaaS, On-Prem, and hybrid environments
• Knowledge of frameworks such as NIST CSF, NIST AI RMF, ISO 27001, SOC 2, and SOX.

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