Director EIAM Strategy &Technical Product Management; Global Security
Job Description What is the opportunity?
The Director of EIAM Strategy & Technical Product Management is responsible for defining and executing integrated product strategy across Royal Bank of Canada's Enterprise Identity and Access Management (EIAM) platform.
This is a hands-on technical leadership role requiring deep engineering involvement and direct accountability for identity lifecycle management, authorization frameworks, governance capabilities, privileged access management, secrets management, and enterprise-wide identity architecture. The successful candidate will drive technical excellence across core security and compliance requirements while leveraging advanced technologies—including AI where appropriate—to enhance EIAM capabilities.
This role demands a technologist with proven hands-on experience designing and implementing complex identity systems, not a product manager focused on go-to-market or business development.
- Own unified EIAM platform strategy and roadmap that incorporate emerging technologies and best practices spanning identity lifecycle for platforms such as authorization, authentication, governance, privileged access management, and secrets management
- Work closely with lines of business to define and interpret business requirements and map them to appropriate technical specifications which can be leveraged to drive solution architectures and design
- Act as a strategic liaison between vendor capabilities and RBC product requirements, ensuring solutions align with enterprise needs and maximize value delivery including driving direction of vendor product roadmap decisions
- Evaluate vendor offerings against RBC's technical and business criteria to validate fit and identify capability gaps - Translate business requirements into actionable product roadmap items
- Work with Solution and IAM Architects to facilitate disciplined decisions on access related solutions that address business needs within a resourcing and bandwidth context that include IAM engineering, integration and application support, operations and program teams
- Prioritize, update, and modify strategies and roadmaps as business needs and vendor landscapes evolve while continuing to drive product strategy and accelerate multiple enterprise IAM initiatives
- Serve as the primary point of contact for cross-functional stakeholders on IAM strategy and vendor integration decisions
- Develop forward-looking roadmaps aligned with 2-year technology vision (including AI and PAM innovation trends)
- Collaborate with Compliance and Risk teams to embed regulatory controls into product design
- Mentor product and technical team members on identity architecture, governance strategy, and technical best practices
- 10 + years of IAM experience, preferably in a financial institution/ large enterprise environment, with one of more of the following:
Privileged Access Management (PAM), Secrets Management, Identity Governance & Administration (IGA), Authentication, Authorization, or Cloud/AI IAM solutions - 5+ years of demonstrated experience translating business and compliance requirements into technical architecture and policy frameworks
- Proven experience evaluating and liaising between vendor products and organizational requirements to ensure optimal solution alignment and value
- Demonstrated experience developing and maintaining program and project-level roadmaps that align with architectural and organizational strategies
- Proven ability to develop and own comprehensive IAM strategies that leverage emerging technologies and industry trends to address IAM requirements while aligning with Enterprise Architecture
- Experience working with one or more of the following:
Idira (Cyber Ark), SailPoint, Hashi Corp,…
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