Non-Human Identity and Cloud IAM Platform Lead

Job Description

This position is part of Abb Vie's Information Security & Risk Management (ISRM) team within Business Technology Solutions. The Identity & Access Management (IAM) team is responsible for the development, implementation, and oversight of Abb Vie's IAM strategy, ensuring secure, efficient, and compliant access to systems and data. The NHI and Cloud IAM function addresses machine identities, which now outnumber humans, and the rapid expansion of AI agents.

This role is the IAM authoritative voice on how these platforms must integrate with identity governance, and it is accountable for ensuring no non-human identity operates outside Abb Vie's visibility or control.

In the role of Non-Human Identity and Cloud IAM – Platform Lead, you will tackle one of the most complex and rapidly evolving challenges in enterprise security: establishing a unified strategy for non-human identities, AI agent governance, and cloud IAM – bridging today’s fragmented landscape into a coherent, observable, and future‑ready program.

• Define and drive the enterprise Non‑Human Identity (NHI) strategy, rationalizing overlapping efforts and establishing a centralized governance program covering all machine identities across on‑premises, cloud, and agentic environments.
• Build and maintain a comprehensive NHI registry encompassing service accounts, APIs, bots, application identities, robotic process automation, and AI agents – ensuring every non‑human identity is discovered, inventoried, classified, and governed within IAM systems.
• Own Abb Vie's identity governance posture for AI agents, ensuring those platforms integrate with IAM and that each AI agent is inventoried, mapped to its owning identity, governed, and visible for security monitoring.
• Proactively discover new AI agents and agentic workloads as they are introduced, partnering with platform and business teams to onboard them into the NHI governance framework and drive remediations where gaps exist.
• Serve as the IAM point of accountability for all agent‑related identity questions: defining standards for authentication, credentials, credential protection, and activity observability.
• Establish centralized NHI observability by integrating IAM platforms with AWS, Azure, GCP, and agentic platforms – so IAM maintains a living view of all non‑human identities.
• Design and implement modern NHI credential security controls, including just‑in‑time (JIT) access, dynamic secrets, short‑lived certificates, automated credential rotation, and runtime authentication.
• Assess the current tooling landscape for NHI and cloud IAM, determine platform extensions or new capabilities, and build a phased modernization roadmap.
• Own and evolve the Cloud IAM and IGA strategy, closing the integration gap between cloud‑native identity platforms (AWS IAM, Azure Entra , GCP IAM) and Abb Vie's central IAM/IGA tools.
• Design cloud identity governance frameworks, including role‑based access models, entitlement management, access certifications, and least‑privilege enforcement across cloud environments.
• Drive cross‑functional alignment across IAM, AI Platform, Cloud, Security Architecture, Compliance, Audit, and business teams, translating requirements into executable roadmap priorities and holding partners accountable for IAM integration commitments.
• Establish KPIs and maturity metrics for the NHI and Cloud IAM program, providing executive‑level visibility into inventory completeness, risk posture, program progress, and gaps.
• Ensure compliance with regulatory requirements (SOX, GDPR, PCI‑DSS) for machine identities and cloud access controls, responding to and remediating audit findings.
• Manage budget, resources, and vendor relationships for all NHI and Cloud IAM technologies and solutions.
• Lead and mentor a team of technical specialists, cultivating proactive governance, automation, and continuous improvement.

• Bachelor’s degree with 8 years of experience, or 7 years of relevant experience, or PhD with 3 years of experience.
• Hands‑on experience with non‑human identity management, cloud IAM, or machine identity governance in large enterprise environments.
• Demonstrated experience…