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 in our Allergan Aesthetics portfolio. For more information about Abb Vie, please visit us at

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 developing, implementing, and overseeing the organization's IAM strategy, ensuring secure, efficient, and compliant access to systems and data. The Non-Human Identity (NHI) and Cloud IAM function addresses a growing attack surface in enterprise security.

This role serves as the authoritative voice on how AI agents and cloud platforms must integrate with identity governance and is accountable for ensuring that no non-human identity operates outside of Abb Vie's visibility or control.

• Define and drive the enterprise NHI strategy, rapidly assessing all in-flight initiatives, 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 discovery, classification, and continuous governance within IAM systems.
• Own Abb Vie’s identity governance posture for AI agents, ensuring integration with IAM, inventory mapping, and access control governance.
• Proactively discover and onboard new AI agents and agentic workloads, partnering with AI platform, cloud, and business teams to ensure timely integration and remediation of gaps.
• Serve as the IAM point of accountability for all agent-related identity questions, defining standards for authentication, credential usage, security, and observability.
• Establish centralized NHI observability by integrating IAM platforms with external systems including AWS, Azure, GCP, and agentic platforms such as Microsoft Copilot and AWS Bedrock.
• Design and implement modern NHI credential security controls such as just-in-time access, dynamic secrets, short-lived certificates, automated rotation, and runtime authentication, reducing standing privilege for machine identities to near zero where possible.
• Assess the current tooling landscape for NHI and cloud IAM, determining platform extensions or new capabilities and building a pragmatic, phased modernization roadmap.
• Own and evolve the Cloud IAM and IGA strategy, ensuring consistent governance for cloud identities, entitlements, and access certifications.
• 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 complex requirements into executable roadmap priorities.
• Establish KPIs and maturity metrics for the NHI and Cloud IAM program, providing executive-level visibility into inventory completeness, risk posture, and open gaps.
• Ensure compliance with regulatory requirements (SOX, GDPR, PCI-DSS) for machine identities and cloud access controls; respond to and remediate 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 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 establishing or maturing NHI programs including service accounts, API…