Manager, Enterprise Identity and Data Protection
On-siteIrving, Texas, United States or Ashburn, Virginia, United States
Job Summary
Partner with the Director on multi-year planning, capability roadmaps, and investment cases for the enterprise identity and data protection portfolio. Translate executive strategy into a sequenced roadmap of initiatives, milestones, and operational commitments while developing and managing the operating budget, licensing, and headcount. Provide management oversight for enterprise IAM lifecycle provisioning, role design, access certification, and DLP policy tuning, and define service levels to drive stakeholder prioritization. Lead a distributed team of IAM and DLP engineers, applying structured improvement methods and root cause analysis to reduce manual toil through automation and workflow redesign. Establish documentation and runbooks for repeatable, auditable work, and lead post-incident reviews to track corrective actions. Present team progress to senior leadership and support internal and external audit activities such as SOC 2, ISO/IEC 27001, PCI DSS, and HITRUST. Manage strategic vendor relationships and ensure contractual commitments align with delivery quality.
Required Qualifications
- Bachelor's degree in information technology, computer science, information systems, engineering, business, or a related field, or equivalent professional experience
- 7 or more years of progressive experience in enterprise technology, technology governance, or risk and controls within a mid-to-large enterprise
- 3 or more years directly leading technical teams (hiring, performance management, coaching, and career development)
- Demonstrated success leading a distributed or multi-site team
- Proven approaches to maintaining engagement, alignment, and accountability across locations and time zones
- Demonstrated experience translating executive strategy into an executable roadmap
- Experience communicating progress, tradeoffs, and risk to senior leadership
- Working knowledge of enterprise IAM concepts and platforms sufficient to guide technical decisions, evaluate designs, and coach engineers
- Working knowledge of data loss prevention and data classification concepts and platforms sufficient to guide technical decisions, evaluate designs, and coach engineers
- Experience operating within an audited control environment, including evidence collection, control testing, and remediation of findings
- Experience applying structured methods (process mapping and formal root cause analysis) to operational problems
- Experience managing vendor relationships, licensing, and an operating budget
Desired Qualifications
- Experience in a data center, critical-infrastructure, hyperscale, colocation, or another high-availability operating environment
- Experience within a private-equity-owned or high-growth organization, including comfort operating with pace, ambiguity, and evolving priorities
- Experience standing up a new function, program, or team capability from an early or undefined state
- Experience supporting SOC 2, ISO/IEC 27001, PCI DSS, HITRUST, or SOX ITGC audit cycles
- Experience leading an IGA platform selection and migration
- Familiarity with identity governance platforms such as SailPoint, Saviynt, Okta, or Microsoft Entra ID Governance
- Familiarity with access-intelligence tooling such as Veza
- Experience with data protection and classification tooling such as Microsoft Purview, Zscaler, or Netskope
- Familiarity operating a Microsoft-first identity and data protection stack (Microsoft Entra, Intune, Purview) and ServiceNow-based workflow
- Experience leading through organizational change, including restructuring, integration, or significant scaling of a team
- Master's degree in business administration, Information Systems, Technology Management, or a related field
- Relevant credential(s) in technology leadership, governance and controls, process improvement, or identity-platform administration: (i.e., PMP; Lean Six Sigma Green Belt or Black Belt; ITIL 4 Foundation or higher; CRISC; CGEIT; and vendor identity-platform certifications)
- Leadership, culture & performance development
- Knowledge & understanding of Strategic & Operational realities, outcome-based metrics; and workforce forecasting
- Exceptional written and verbal communication adapted to all levels
- Influences and drives outcomes without direct authority
- Facilitates groups toward decision and commitment
- Presents complex technical and risk topics in plain business language
- Strong analytical and critical thinking with the discipline to define the problem before solving it
- Fluent in process mapping, value stream analysis, and root cause techniques (Five Whys, fishbone, fault tree)
- Addresses systemic patterns rather than one-off symptoms
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