Non-Human Identity and Cloud IAM Platform Lead

About Abb Vie

Abb Vie's mission is to discover and deliver innovative medicines and solutions that solve serious health issues today and address the medical challenges of tomorrow. We strive to have a remarkable impact on people’s lives across several key therapeutic areas including immunology, oncology and neuroscience—and products and services in our Allergan Aesthetics portfolio. For more information about Abb Vie, please visit us at  Follow @abbvie on Linked In, Facebook, Instagram, X and You Tube.

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 the organization’s IAM strategy, ensuring secure, efficient, and compliant access to systems and data. The NHI and Cloud IAM function addresses one of the fastest‑growing attack surfaces in enterprise security: machine identities now outnumber human ones, and the rapid expansion of AI agents is accelerating that trend.

This role does not own the AI agent or cloud platforms themselves—they are owned by partner teams across BTS—but it is the IAM team’s authoritative voice on how those platforms must integrate with identity governance, and it is accountable for ensuring that no non‑human identity operates outside of Abb Vie's visibility or control.

Take the next step in your career with an organization that strategically invests in the long‑term health of the company, its technology and its people. The Abb Vie Business Technology Solutions (BTS) team shapes the digital transformation necessary for our treatments to positively impact patients’ lives. In the role of Non‑Human Identity and Cloud IAM Platform Lead you’ll 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.

This is a senior, highly technical role that requires both architectural depth and the organizational influence to drive accountability across the teams that own AI, agentic, and cloud platforms, ensuring that every non‑human identity is visible, governed, and secured from Abb Vie's IAM systems.

• Define and drive the enterprise Non‑Human Identity (NHI) strategy, rapidly assessing all in‑flight initiatives across the organization, rationalizing overlapping efforts, and establishing a centralized, authoritative 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 (RPA), and AI agents—ensuring every non‑human identity is discovered, inventoried, classified, and continuously governed within IAM systems.
• Own Abb Vie's identity governance posture for AI agents: while the creation and operation of AI agent platforms is owned by other teams, this role is accountable for ensuring those platforms integrate with IAM so that every AI agent is inventoried in the NHI registry, mapped to its owning human or system identity, governed through appropriate access controls, and visible for security monitoring.
• Proactively discover and identify new AI agents and agentic workloads as they are introduced across the enterprise; partner with AI platform, cloud, and business teams to ensure timely onboarding into the NHI governance framework, and drive remediations or mappings where gaps exist.
• Serve as the IAM point of accountability for all agent‑related identity questions: defining standards for how agents authenticate, what credentials they use, how those credentials are secured, and how agent activity is observable from an identity and access perspective.
• Establish centralized NHI observability by driving integration between IAM platforms and external systems—including AWS, Azure, GCP, and agentic platforms (e.g., Microsoft Copilot ecosystem, AWS Bedrock, or…