Director, IAM Engineering

Position Overview

Autodesk’s Enterprise Identity Services team is looking for a Director, IAM Engineering to lead the strategy and execution for modern Identity and Access Management engineering across workforce identity,
non-human identity
, directory and identity infrastructure, authentication, federation, access governance integrations, identity platform modernization, and emerging AI and agentic identity patterns.

Job Requisition  # 26WD97993

This role is remote‑friendly within North America and can also be based in San Francisco, CA;
Portland, OR;
Boston, MA;
Denver, CO; or Toronto, ON. Travel requirements are approximately 20%.

• Define the engineering strategy, architecture, and roadmap for Autodesk’s IAM platforms across workforce, non‑human, and agentic identity
• Lead engineering teams responsible for IAM platforms, APIs, automation services, and identity integrations
• Oversee engineering for SailPoint, Microsoft Entra, Okta, SSO, MFA, app onboarding, directory services, identity verification, and privileged access integrations
• Build secure, scalable, and reusable identity paved roads for internal teams
• Own engineering patterns for non‑human identities including service accounts, workload identities, API identities, automation accounts, and federated machine identities
• Define secure patterns for agentic and on‑behalf‑of identity, including OBO flows, delegated access, scoped tokens, constrained execution, and least privilege controls
• Drive adoption of short‑lived credentials, federation, secret reduction, lifecycle controls, and stronger ownership for non‑human and agentic identities
• Ensure engineering designs align to least privilege, privileged access, separation of duties, logging, and traceability requirements
• Partner with IAM Security and Trust on RBAC, ABAC, PIM, PAM integrations, auditability, and identity risk reduction
• Lead and grow a high performing IAM Engineering organization with strong technical ownership, delivery standards, and production readiness
• Encourage effective and secure use of AI assisted engineering tools to improve delivery, documentation, and operational efficiency

• 10+ years of experience in IAM, security engineering, platform engineering, or related enterprise identity domains
• 5+ years leading engineering teams responsible for IAM platforms, identity services, or security infrastructure at enterprise scale
• Strong experience with SailPoint, Microsoft Entra, and Okta
• Deep knowledge of OAuth2, OIDC, SAML, JWT, token exchange, OBO flows, federation, and modern workload identity patterns
• Experience designing identity architectures across SSO, MFA, provisioning, lifecycle automation, directory services, access governance, and app onboarding
• Experience securing and engineering for non‑human identities across cloud, CI/CD, platform, and runtime environments
• Experience defining secure patterns for agentic identity and software acting on behalf of users or services
• Strong engineering fundamentals across APIs, automation, distributed systems, CI/CD, observability, and secure platform delivery
• Experience with privileged access, admin tiering, just‑in‑time access, and strong production control boundaries
• Experience working in regulated environments, including FedRAMP, public sector, or similarly controlled environments
• Experience using AI tools to improve engineering productivity, design quality, analysis, or automation with sound security judgment
• Strong cross‑functional leadership skills and the ability to influence operations, security, compliance, and engineering stakeholders

• Experience with Active Directory modernization, hybrid identity, and directory sync architecture
• Experience building identity paved roads and reusable engineering patterns
• Experience supporting public sector identity requirements and stronger compliance evidence models
• Experience with custom identity services, identity APIs, AI enabled platforms, and platform modernization programs

Identity is a foundational control plane for Autodesk. This role ensures Autodesk can scale modern identity engineering across human, non‑human, and agentic…