Access Governance Platform Delivery Lead - Enterprise Identity & Access Management Program

Job Description

The Identity & Access Assurance (IAA) organization is seeking an Access Governance Platform Delivery Lead to support platform ownership, execution, onboarding coordination, and operational readiness across strategic Identity and Access Management (IAM) modernization initiatives.

Ford's enterprise identity governance landscape spans a broad ecosystem of platforms, applications, processes, integrations, and operational models across a large global environment. The IAA platform plays a key role in modernizing and simplifying enterprise access governance by enabling scalable, centralized, and governance-driven identity and access management services.

This role works closely with platform engineering teams, product owners, service owners, security stakeholders, cloud operations, AI operations, application teams, enterprise architects, and strategic partners to translate platform priorities into structured delivery plans, actionable backlogs, clear milestones, dependency alignment, and operationally ready outcomes.

The successful candidate will help drive execution discipline, delivery transparency, backlog quality, onboarding readiness, and stakeholder alignment across complex work streams involving identity governance, entitlement management, access assurance, automation, and platform modernization.

This role is ideal for someone who combines a product/platform ownership mindset with strong Agile delivery experience, organizational discipline, technical curiosity, and the ability to operate effectively within highly technical enterprise identity and security environments.

While this is not a formal people-management role, it provides significant exposure to enterprise-scale identity modernization, platform transformation, supplier collaboration, operational delivery, and cross-functional coordination across a highly visible and evolving security landscape.

Responsibilities

What you'll do...

Platform Delivery and Roadmap Execution

• Support platform ownership and roadmap execution across Identity & Access Assurance initiatives and work streams.
• Translate platform priorities into delivery plans, milestones, epics, stories, tasks, dependencies, and measurable outcomes.
• Maintain delivery plans, execution dashboards, RAID logs, dependency trackers, operational reports, and roadmap views.
• Track delivery commitments, blockers, risks, decisions, and cross-team dependencies across engineering, operations, governance, security, and onboarding stakeholders.
• Help ensure platform work remains aligned with roadmap objectives, business priorities, operational readiness expectations, and delivery timelines.
• Support onboarding coordination for applications and services integrating with the enterprise IAM platform.

Agile Delivery and Backlog Governance

• Facilitate Agile/Scrum ceremonies, including sprint planning, backlog refinement, daily stand-ups, sprint reviews, retrospectives, and roadmap planning sessions.
• Partner closely with engineers, architects, technical leads, product owners, and service owners to maintain backlog readiness and execution clarity.
• Create, define, and refine user stories, acceptance criteria, delivery tasks, dependencies, and supporting artifacts.
• Ensure backlog items are clear, actionable, prioritized, appropriately scoped, and aligned to team capacity and platform objectives.
• Maintain visibility into sprint commitments, carryover work, risks, blockers, and upcoming deliverables.
• Drive continuous improvement in Agile maturity, story quality, sprint readiness, delivery predictability, execution consistency, and operational excellence.

Stakeholder and Dependency Coordination

• Coordinate communication and alignment between the IAA platform and partner teams across IAM, security, cloud operations, AI operations, enterprise architecture, application teams, and strategic suppliers.
• Facilitate technical working sessions to clarify scope, resolve ambiguity, align dependencies, and support timely decision-making.
• Document and follow up on decisions, action items, owners, due dates, risks, and next steps.
• Prepare status updates, delivery summaries, leadership updates, operational reporting, and stakeholder communications.
• Translate complex technical initiatives into clear delivery plans, actionable work items, and understandable status updates.

Platform Onboarding and Adoption Readiness

• Coordinate onboarding activities for applications, services, and partner teams adopting enterprise IAM and access governance capabilities.
• Maintain onboarding plans, readiness checklists, implementation timelines, dependency trackers, and adoption progress reporting.
• Partner with engineering, operations, security, architecture, and application teams to ensure onboarding activities are planned, communicated, and executed effectively.
• Track onboarding risks, blockers, readiness gaps, and operational handoff needs.
• Support repeatable onboarding practices through templates, documentation, intake workflows, and stakeholder guidance.

Operational Readiness…