Manager, IT Delivery – IAM/IGA Engineering

Responsibilities:

• Lead the end-to-end delivery and operation of enterprise IAM/IGA capabilities, including identity lifecycle management, access provisioning, access certifications, role management, application integrations, and workflow automation.
• Lead engineering modernization and platform initiatives across SailPoint and the broader IAM technology ecosystem, balancing strategic investments with platform maintenance and operational priorities.
• Lead, coach, and develop technical leads, engineers, and quality engineering professionals while fostering accountability, collaboration, continuous learning, and engineering excellence.
• Partner with product owners, architects, technical leads, and business stakeholders to translate strategic priorities and business requirements into executable engineering roadmaps.
• Manage scope, priorities, capacity, dependencies, risks, and delivery commitments across multiple concurrent initiatives.
• Ensure the availability, stability, resiliency, performance, and operational readiness of critical IAM/IGA platforms and services.
• Provide leadership across production engineering, including incident management, monitoring, troubleshooting, release management, vulnerability remediation, platform maintenance, and technology debt.
• Ensure engineering solutions and production changes adhere to information security, technology risk, change management, testing, and control requirements.
• Drive automation and continuous improvement to enhance platform reliability, delivery effectiveness, and operational efficiency.
• Build strong partnerships across technology, security, architecture, operations, application teams, and external engineering partners.
• Communicate delivery status, operational health, risks, dependencies, priorities, and key metrics to senior leadership.
• Support workforce, capacity, financial, and vendor planning while ensuring effective utilization and knowledge transfer across internal and external resources.

Qualifications:

• Minimum of eight years related work experience, with at least five years of project management experience. Strong people leadership preferred. Delivery of IT/Software implementation preferred.
• Undergraduate degree or equivalent combination of training and experience. Graduate degree preferred.
• Set the IAM/IGA engineering vision and roadmap, driving senior leadership alignment on technology priorities and investments.
• Demonstrated experience leading and developing engineering or technology delivery teams.
• Strong understanding of Identity and Access Management (IAM) and Identity Governance & Administration (IGA), including identity lifecycle management, access provisioning, access governance, certifications, roles, and application integrations.
• Experience managing technology delivery across the software development lifecycle, from requirements and design through development, testing, implementation, and production support.
• Strong understanding of production engineering disciplines including incident and change management, monitoring, resiliency, vulnerability management, release management, and technology debt.
• Demonstrated ability to manage multiple priorities, engineering capacity, dependencies, risks, and delivery commitments.
• Strong leadership, communication, decision-making, problem-solving, and stakeholder-management skills.
• Undergraduate degree or equivalent combination of education, training, and relevant professional experience.

Preferred Qualifications:

• Experience with SailPoint IdentityIQ and/or similar solutions in a large enterprise environment.
• Experience with IAM integrations involving Active Directory/Entra ID, Ping, ServiceNow, APIs, databases, cloud platforms, and enterprise applications.
• Experience with IAM capabilities such as Joiner/Mover/Leaver, access requests, provisioning, role management, access certifications, and application onboarding.
• Experience leading teams responsible for both strategic engineering delivery and L2/L3 production support.
• Experience with automation, CI/CD, APIs, automated testing, observability, and cloud/platform modernization.
• Experience operating in a highly regulated or control-intensive environment.
• CISSP, CISM, SailPoint, PMP/PgMP, cloud, Agile, or related security/technology certifications preferred but not required.
• Special Factors
• Sponsorship
• Vanguard is offering visa sponsorship for this position.
• Minimum of eight years related work experience, with at least five years of project management experience. Strong people leadership preferred. Delivery of IT/Software implementation preferred.
• Undergraduate degree or equivalent combination of training and experience. Graduate degree preferred.
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