# Senior Manager, Identity & Access Management (IAM)

**Company:** [Databricks](https://hotfix.jobs/companies/databricks)
**Location:** Mountain View, CA
**Role:** Security Engineering
**Salary:** $217k – $265k/yr
**Experience:** 8+ years
**Skills:** IAM, SSO, MFA, RBAC, Abac, Pam, SAML, OIDC, OAuth, Zero Trust
**Posted:** 2026-01-30

> Leads IAM teams to build and operate enterprise identity, authentication, authorization, and governance systems at global scale. Requires 8-12+ years experience in security/identity engineering, deep IAM expertise, cloud architecture (AWS/GCP/Azure), and Zero Trust principles.

## Job Description

## What You’ll Do

### Strategic Leadership
- 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.

### Build and Lead High-Performing Teams
- 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.

### IAM Architecture & Engineering
- Lead the design and implementation of IAM capabilities including:
  - Single Sign-On (SSO), MFA, and federated identity
  - Role-Based Access Control (RBAC) and Attribute-Based Access Control (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.

### Governance, Compliance & Risk
- 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.

### Cross-Functional Partnership
- 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.

## What You Bring
- **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.

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