Principal IAM Lead

Principal IAM Lead

Drive Wealth is on a mission to make investing easier. We believe that everyone should have the ability to control their financial future, and that access to financial markets should not be limited by geography, wealth, or legacy systems. We are a global B2B financial technology organization dedicated to democratizing access to financial independence around the world. Our mission is realized through an API-based platform, empowering our partners to offer seamless investing and trading experiences to clients worldwide, all from their mobile devices.

Our technology provides partners with a modern, extensible toolkit, enabling traditional investment workflows and innovative techniques like fractional share ownership. Drive Wealth has evolved into a global platform offering trading of US equities, mutual funds, ETFs, fixed income, and options.

There's never been a better time to build a category-defining business and there has rarely been a team better positioned for this opportunity. Our culture blends the pace and agility of a fintech start-up with the impact, stability, and discipline of Wall Street. We encourage creativity and experimentation while ensuring institutional-grade execution and regulatory compliance in everything we do. Join us and help build the future of global investing!

Drive Wealth is seeking a Principal IAM Lead to own and evolve our enterprise identity and access management ecosystem. This is a senior, hands-on technical leadership role for someone who lives at the intersection of identity architecture, security engineering, and platform administration. You will serve as the subject matter expert for our Okta and Auth0 environments, driving secure, scalable, and well-governed identity solutions across the organization.

The ideal candidate has deep platform-level expertise, strong troubleshooting instincts, and the confidence to make and defend changes to authentication and security policies that affect the entire company.

Okta Platform Ownership

• Serve as the principal administrator and subject matter expert for Okta, including SSO and SCIM integrations, Okta Workflows, and Okta Identity Governance (OIG)
• Design, build, and maintain group rules and access policies that support least-privilege and lifecycle management
• Manage Okta licensing, entitlements, and platform capacity planning
• Demonstrate deep expertise on how authentication rules (MFA policies, sign-on policies, adaptive authentication, risk-based policies, etc.) are applied within Okta, and update and tune these policies as business and security needs evolve.

Auth0 Platform Management

• Maintain strong working knowledge of the Auth0 platform, including tenants, rules/actions, and application configurations
• Create, configure, and troubleshoot Identity Provider (IdP) connections across all major IdP types (SAML, OIDC, social, enterprise directories, etc.)
• Diagnose and resolve authentication and federation issues across integrated applications

API Integration

• Leverage Okta, Auth0, and related APIs to automate identity workflows, integrations, and reporting
• Troubleshoot and build API-based solutions to extend platform capabilities beyond native UI functionality
• Client & Enterprise SSO Onboarding
• Configure and manage SSO connections for external clients and enterprise customers, acting as the primary technical point of contact for partner-side IT/security teams during setup
• Gather and validate partner IdP metadata (OIDC) and configure corresponding Auth0 connections
• Test and troubleshoot partner SSO connections end-to-end prior to go-live, resolving certificate, attribute mapping, and claims issues
• Maintain documentation and a repeatable onboarding process for bringing new clients onto SSO

Cloud Identity (AWS)

• Apply working knowledge of AWS and AWS Identity Center (formerly AWS SSO) to support cloud identity federation and access management
• Collaborate with cloud infrastructure teams to align identity governance across on-prem, SaaS, and cloud environments

AI & Emerging Technology Security

• Secure access to AI/ML platforms, tools, and resources, including LLM APIs, AI agents, and…