Position Summary

The Senior Lead of Access Management is responsible for leading the delivery, engineering, operations, governance, and continual improvement of enterprise Identity and Access Management (IAM) capabilities supporting both workforce and client-facing environments. This role oversees authentication, authorization, identity governance, access lifecycle management, privileged access integrations, and access control services while maintaining alignment with cybersecurity, regulatory, operational, and business objectives.
The position partners closely with cybersecurity, engineering, architecture, infrastructure, application development, risk, audit, and business teams to deliver secure, scalable, and resilient access management services. The Senior Lead serves as a key leader within the IAM organization and is accountable for operational excellence, platform stability, control effectiveness, modernization initiatives, and delivery of strategic roadmap commitments.

Primary Responsibilities
Access Management Engineering & Operations
Lead teams responsible for authentication,



authorization, identity lifecycle management, access governance, and related IAM services.
Oversee day-to-day operation, support, maintenance, and continual improvement of access management platforms and services.
Ensure availability, resiliency, performance, and operational maturity of identity and access capabilities.
Drive remediation of operational issues, technical debt, platform risks, and control deficiencies.
Establish and monitor service level objectives, operational metrics, and performance indicators.

Workforce and Client Identity Services
Lead engineering and operational support for workforce and client authentication capabilities.
Support identity lifecycle processes including joiner, mover, leaver, provisioning, deprovisioning, certification, and entitlement governance.
Ensure secure onboarding and integration of applications with enterprise access management services.

📌 Senior Lead – Access Management (India)
🏢 Northern Trust
📍 India