THE TEAM YOU WILL BE JOINING
- A well-established, financially strong enterprise organization headquartered in Charlotte.
- A highly visible cybersecurity leadership function focused on modernizing and maturing Identity & Access Management.
- An evolving technology environment that includes traditional infrastructure, modern applications and Azure cloud services.
- A collaborative organization where IAM partners closely with Cybersecurity, Infrastructure, Application Development, Risk, Audit, HR and executive leadership.
- A blended delivery model consisting of internal resources and strategic managed-service partners.
- Executive-level ownership of the enterprise IAM strategy, roadmap and operating model.
- Opportunity to build, mature and scale a critical cybersecurity practice.
- Direct visibility and influence with senior technology and business leadership.
- Ability to lead transformation across identity governance, privileged access, authentication, directory services and automation.
- A role that balances strategic leadership with technical and architectural influence.
- Charlotte, NC (Flexible)
- Hybrid work environment (Flexible)
- Own the strategy, development and continued maturation of the enterprise IAM program.
- Establish the policies, governance, standards and operating model required to manage identity securely at scale.
- Develop and maintain the enterprise IAM roadmap in partnership with cybersecurity, technology and business leadership.
- Lead Identity Governance and Administration initiatives, including lifecycle management, access certification, role-based access and entitlement management.
- Drive the adoption and continued development of Privileged Access Management.
- Oversee authentication, authorization, directory services and identity integrations across legacy and cloud environments.
- Advance automation for provisioning, deprovisioning and access management.
- Manage internal resources, vendor teams and managed-security partners while ensuring accountability to SLAs and program objectives.
- Establish KPIs, reporting and training programs to measure performance and maturity.
- Investigate complex identity-related incidents and lead corrective action.
- Serve as the senior IAM advisor to executives, project teams, developers and technology leaders.
- 10+ years of cybersecurity leadership experience with significant ownership of Identity & Access Management.
- Proven experience building, transforming or materially maturing an enterprise IAM program.
- Previous leadership experience within a large or complex enterprise environment.
- Demonstrated ownership of both IAM strategy and execution.
- Strong experience across IGA, PAM, authentication, authorization, directory services and identity lifecycle management.
- Experience leading IAM within an Azure or cloud-first environment.
- Ability to operate credibly with executives while maintaining the technical depth required to challenge architects, engineers and vendors.
- Experience managing sizable internal teams, external vendors and managed-service providers.
- Strong understanding of cybersecurity governance, architecture, operations, risk and regulatory requirements.
- Executive communication skills with the ability to translate complex identity topics into business impact.
- This role requires a proven IAM leader who has successfully done this work before—not an emerging leader stepping into enterprise ownership for the first time.
