Senior Engineering Director, Workforce Identity Access Manager

About the role

The Senior Engineering Director, WIAM leads 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.

Responsibilities

• 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: 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: 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.

Requirements

• 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.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree or equivalent practical experience; advanced degrees or relevant security certifications are a plus but not required.

Skills

• Pragmatic security engineering leadership.
• Comfortable setting direction while staying close to the work.
• Clear and credible communication skills.
• Curiosity and enthusiasm for emerging technologies, particularly AI-driven solutions.
• Candid, timely, respectful feedback.
• Learner orientation and openness to diverse ideas.
• Data-informed decision-making, iterative learning, and external benchmarking.
• Problem-solving skills, including the ability to simplify complexity and make quick decisions with clarity of purpose.
• Collaboration across differences, empathy, and shared success.

Benefits

At College Board, we offer a comprehensive package designed to help you thrive. This includes:

• Annual bonuses and opportunities for merit-based raises and promotions.
• A mission-driven workplace where your impact matters.
• A team that invests in your development and success.

Pay

The hiring range for this role is $170,000-$195,000. Your exact salary will depend on your location, experience, and how your background compares to others in similar roles at the College Board. We aim to make our best offer upfront, rooted in fairness, transparency, and market data. We adjust salaries by location to ensure fairness, no matter where you live.

Schedule

This is a full-time position. The role is available as a fully remote role or a hybrid role (Tuesday and Wednesday in office).