SVP, Head of Identity & Access Management

At LPL, people leaders hold the key to the employee experience - shaping culture, driving performance, and guiding individuals to new heights. Because when that happens, we all win - clients, LPL, and most importantly our, employees.

If you're ready to lead with intention and discover what's possible, LPL Financial invites you to apply today.

The Senior Vice President, Identity & Access Management (IAM) is responsible for leading LPL Financial's enterprise IAM organization and advancing the firm's identity security strategy, governance, engineering, operations, and resiliency capabilities.

This executive leader oversees all aspects of workforce, advisor, partner, and privileged identity management, ensuring secure and compliant access to firm resources while enabling business growth and digital transformation. The SVP will lead a large-scale IAM organization responsible for Identity Governance & Administration (IGA), Privileged Access Management (PAM), Authentication Services, Directory Services, Identity Engineering, Production Support, and Identity Platform Operations. The role will also drive modernization efforts focused on Zero Trust principles, operational resilience, automation, cloud identity services, and regulatory compliance.

Reporting directly to the Chief Information Security Officer (CISO), this position will partner closely with Technology, Infrastructure, Enterprise Architecture, Risk Management, Compliance, Internal Audit, Human Capital, and business leaders across the organization.

• Lead the vision, strategy, and execution of LPL's Identity & Access Management program.
• Establish a multi-year IAM roadmap aligned to Cybersecurity and Technology priorities.
• Serve as the senior leader accountable for IAM operations, platform stability, service delivery, and risk management.
• Drive continuous improvement of identity controls, governance processes, and operational effectiveness.
• Develop and maintain executive-level reporting on IAM risks, priorities, performance, and organizational health.

• Lead Identity Governance and Administration programs, including provisioning, deprovisioning, access certification, role management, and segregation-of-duties controls.
• Ensure adherence to least-privilege and Zero Trust security principles across the enterprise.
• Establish IAM policies, standards, and governance frameworks.
• Partner with Risk and Compliance teams to ensure alignment with regulatory and audit requirements.

• Oversee IAM engineering, production support, and operational teams responsible for enterprise identity platforms.
• Lead modernization efforts across Ping Identity, Forge Rock, Active Directory, Entra , authentication services, federation, and Single Sign-On capabilities.
• Ensure scalability, resiliency, and operational excellence across critical identity infrastructure.
• Drive automation and reduction of manual operational processes to improve reliability and risk management.

• Lead strategy and governance for privileged access across users, systems, applications, and service accounts.
• Strengthen access controls through centralized governance, monitoring, and least-privileged access models.
• Ensure effective controls over administrative and elevated access activities.

• Own resilience and availability strategies for critical IAM platforms and services.
• Lead initiatives related to disaster recovery, high availability, identity provider resiliency, and business continuity planning.
• Partner with Architecture and Engineering teams to improve platform reliability and reduce…