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Tech Stack
Tools & technologiesCloudCyber SecurityDistributed Systems
About the role
Key responsibilities & impact- Define and execute the global client identity engineering strategy, target architecture, multiyear roadmap, and investment priorities
- Set the technical vision for identity proofing, authentication, authorization, federation, consent, profile management, digital fraud controls, and identity lifecycle capabilities
- Represent the organization in industry forums and strategic partnerships
- Advise senior executives on identity risk, client experience, platform modernization, resilience, and emerging opportunities
- Lead and develop globally distributed engineering teams across architecture, software development, platform engineering, reliability, testing, implementation, and production support
- Deliver complex, large-scale global identity programs through product, architecture, engineering, security, risk, and business partnerships
- Establish reusable platforms, APIs, software development kits, automation, observability, and engineering standards
- Create an operating model enabling follow-the-sun delivery, clear ownership, consistent quality, capacity management, and rapid issue resolution
- Build a high-performing engineering culture centered on technical excellence, accountability, inclusion, continuous learning, and measurable outcomes
- Lead experimentation, prototyping, threat modeling, and evaluation of emerging technologies and standards
- Convert successful experiments into scalable production solutions
- Develop intellectual property, technical publications, external partnerships, and engineering communities
- Engineer platforms for high availability, horizontal scalability, regional resilience, graceful degradation, disaster recovery, and secure failover
- Embed security, privacy, regulatory, accessibility, and data-minimization requirements throughout the engineering lifecycle
- Strengthen defenses against account takeover, credential compromise, social engineering, identity fraud, session abuse, and AI-enabled threats
- Define service-level objectives, operational readiness criteria, incident response practices, and continuous control validation for critical identity services
Requirements
What you’ll need- Extensive experience leading global client identity, digital identity, cybersecurity, platform, or application engineering organizations
- Deep technical knowledge of identity architecture, identity proofing, authentication, authorization, federation, OAuth, OpenID Connect, passkeys, APIs, distributed systems, cloud platforms, and secure software engineering
- Strong understanding of cloud infrastructure, client identity and access management, fraud prevention, privacy, regulatory obligations, resilience, observability, and site reliability engineering
- Experience governing machine and agentic AI identities, delegated access, consent, dynamic authorization, and auditable autonomous interactions
- Proven ability to recruit, develop, and retain senior architects, engineers, engineering managers, and technical leaders across global locations
- Exceptional executive communication, stakeholder influence, financial stewardship, vendor management, and change leadership
- Minimum 12 years of experience in cloud security engineering or related IT infrastructure roles
- Demonstrated expertise in leading security architecture and operations at scale
- Bachelor’s degree in computer science, engineering, cybersecurity, or a related discipline
- Experience working in Agile environments with tools like JIRA and Confluence
- Experience leading large-scale cloud-based platforms and engineering teams in highly regulated environments
- Proven ability to lead global engineering organizations and deliver complex, enterprise-wide technology initiatives
- Demonstrated success building, mentoring, and retaining high-performing engineering teams
- Vanguard is not offering visa sponsorship for this position
Benefits
Comp & perks- Hybrid working model enabling flexibility, in-person learning, collaboration, and connection
- Opportunities to work on long-term financial wellbeing initiatives
- Learning and development opportunities
- Employee experience supported by a mission-driven, collaborative culture