Senior Director, Identity & Access Management

• Full-time

IFS is a billion-dollar revenue company with 7000+ employees on all continents. Our leading AI technology is the backbone of our award-winning enterprise software solutions, enabling our customers to be their best when it really matters–at the Moment of Service™. Our commitment to internal AI adoption has allowed us to stay at the forefront of technological advancements, ensuring our colleagues can unlock their creativity and productivity, and our solutions are always cutting-edge.

At IFS, we’re flexible, we’re innovative, and we’re focused not only on how we can engage with our customers but on how we can make a real change and have a worldwide impact. We help solve some of society’s greatest challenges, fostering a better future through our agility, collaboration, and trust.

We celebrate diversity and understand our responsibility to reflect the diverse world we work in. We are committed to promoting an inclusive workforce that fully represents the many different cultures, backgrounds, and viewpoints of our customers, our partners, and our communities. As a truly international company serving people from around the globe, we realize that our success is tantamount to the respect we have for those different points of view.

By joining our team, you will have the opportunity to be part of a global, diverse environment; you will be joining a winning team with a commitment to sustainability; and a company where we get things done so that you can make a positive impact on the world.

We’re looking for innovative and original thinkers to work in an environment where you can #Make Your Moment so that we can help others make theirs. With the power of our AI-driven solutions, we empower our team to change the status quo and make a real difference.

If you want to change the status quo, we’ll help you make your moment. Join Team Purple. Join IFS.

This role owns the Identity and Access Management (IAM) strategy for the IFS platform ecosystem. It leads the Authentication (AuthN) and Authorization (AuthZ) platforms that secure Nexus, Kairos, IFS.ai, Cloud Services, and future platform investments — balancing security, scale, compliance, and a straightforward experience for customers and developers.

The leader builds and runs a high-performing engineering organization through two engineering managers, and partners closely with Product, Architecture, Security, Compliance, Cloud Operations, and Customer Services to keep IAM capability ahead of the platform's needs.

• Identity provider integration and federation
• SSO architecture and delivery
• OAuth 2.0 and OpenID Connect platforms
• Customer identity onboarding
• SCIM provisioning and identity lifecycle management
• User and group management
• Tenant onboarding and offboarding
• Session management and token services
• Identity governance and compliance
• Authentication observability and operational excellence
• High availability and disaster recovery for authentication services

• RBAC, ABAC, ReBAC, and ACL models
• Centralized and decentralized authorization patterns
• Policy administration capabilities
• Row-level security capabilities
• Audit and compliance controls
• Authorization interoperability across the IFS product suite
• Developer enablement — libraries, SDKs, and templates
• Platform adoption across application teams

• Set the strategic direction for IAM across the platform ecosystem and represent it in the wider engineering and product strategy
• Own platform architecture governance forAuth Nand Auth Z, ensuring designs meet security, scale, and compliance requirements
• Uphold engineering excellence — code quality, reliability, and sound technical decision-making across both teams
• Champion…