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Senior Manager, Identity & Access Management (IAM)

Databricks· Engineering
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Mountain View, California$217k - $264.6knot specifiedPosted 11mo ago

About the role

Senior Manager of IAM to lead the teams responsible for enterprise-wide identity, authentication, authorization, and access governance systems, owning strategy, architecture, and execution at global scale.

Responsibilities

  • 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.
  • 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.
  • Lead the design and implementation of IAM capabilities including: Single Sign-On (SSO), MFA, and federated identity; RBAC and ABAC; Privileged Access Management (PAM); Identity lifecycle automation; 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, FedRAMP, SOX, GDPR, etc.).
  • Ensure operational rigor, strong documentation, and sustainable controls that withstand audits and customer expectations.
  • Work closely with IT, Product Security, Cloud Infrastructure, 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.

Qualifications

  • 8–12+ years of experience in security, identity engineering, or related technical fields
  • Deep technical expertise in modern IAM technologies, directories, authentication protocols (SAML, OIDC, OAuth), and identity standards.
  • Hands-on architecture or engineering experience within cloud environments (AWS/GCP/Azure).
  • Experience implementing Zero Trust identity models and privileged access management frameworks.
  • Strong understanding of identity governance, compliance requirements, and audit processes.
  • Proven track record of leading high-performing teams and delivering complex, cross-functional programs.
  • Excellent communication, influencing, and stakeholder management skills.

Benefits

  • Benefits details available via regional link (not explicitly enumerated in the description)
Last updated Sep 10, 2026. Interested? Apply on the company site.

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