Senior Engineering Director

Description:

As the Senior Engineering Director, WIAM, you will lead a team of experienced engineers responsible for building, operating, and continuously improving College Board’s core workforce IAM capabilities. This role is accountable for executing an established strategy and deliberately evolving it over time, ensuring core capabilities continue to meet security, usability, and scale needs. This role exists to ensure identity and access services are secure, scalable, and thoughtfully designed to support both strong security outcomes and a positive user experience.

You will provide strategic direction grounded in execution, evolving workforce identity lifecycle management and access governance, including credentials and privileged access, across cloud and hybrid environments through iterative improvement. Working closely with peers and leadership across the Information Security Office (ISO), Technology, and partner divisions, you will ensure security capabilities are well-integrated, measurable, and operationally resilient.



In This Role, You Will

Lead WIAM Operations and Delivery (40%)

Own the end-to-end operation of workforce identity, access management, identity governance (IGA), and privileged access management (PAM) capabilities.

Ensure authentication, authorization, and lifecycle processes are reliable, well-documented, and operated consistently at scale.

Manage operational issues and escalations, driving durable fixes and clear ownership.

Balance security controls with usability and business needs through risk-based decision making.

Drive Strategy Through Execution (30%)

Define, maintain, and execute the WIAM roadmap, prioritizing work based on security impact, user experience, and operational resilience.

Translate strategic intent into actionable engineering initiatives across hybrid identity environments.

Partner with Portfolio Management and peer teams to sequence work, manage dependencies, and deliver outcomes.

Use operational signals, metrics, and user feedback to deliberately evolve strategy over time.

Improve consistency and efficiency through automation, standard patterns, and platform tuning.

Build and Manage a High-Performing Team (30%)

Lead, coach, and develop a team of WIAM engineers, setting clear expectations for ownership, quality, and delivery.

Provide regular feedback, performance coaching, and career development support.

Foster a culture that values operational excellence, learning, and continuous improvement.

Support hiring, onboarding, and succession planning to ensure long-term team health.

About You

You are a pragmatic security engineering leader who understands that strong identity security is built through disciplined execution, iterative improvement, and thoughtful design. You are comfortable setting direction while staying close to the work, using operational reality to inform strategy rather than treating strategy and execution as separate concerns.

You Have
 

• 8+ years of experience in identity and access management, directory services, or adjacent security engineering domains.
• 3+ years of experience leading and managing engineers responsible for production security and IAM platforms.
• Experience owning and operating enterprise security platforms and services with clear accountability, including defining roadmaps, prioritizing work, measuring effectiveness, and driving continuous improvement.
• Strong working knowledge of IAM, including identity lifecycle management, access governance, IGA, PAM, and cloud identity patterns.
• Experience operating identity platforms in cloud and hybrid environments.
• Proven ability to influence outcomes and build alignment across security, engineering, and business teams through clear, credible communication with technical and executive stakeholders.
• Proven ability to balance security outcomes, user experience, and operational reliability.
• Bachelor’s degree or equivalent practical experience; advanced degrees or relevant security certifications are a plus but not required.