Head of Client Identity Engineering

Salary: $120,000 - 160,000 per year Requirements: Extensive experience leading global client identity, digital identity, cybersecurity, platform, or application engineering organizations; at least 12 years in cloud security engineering or related IT infrastructure roles, including security architecture and operations at scale. Deep expertise in identity and access management, including identity proofing, authentication, authorization, federation, OAuth, OpenID Connect, passkeys, APIs, distributed systems, and secure software engineering. Experience leading large-scale cloud platforms and engineering teams in highly regulated environments, with strong knowledge of cloud infrastructure, cybersecurity, fraud prevention, privacy, regulatory obligations, resilience, observability, and site reliability engineering. Experience governing machine and agentic AI identities, delegated access, consent, dynamic authorization, and auditable autonomous interactions. Bachelors degree in computer science, engineering, cybersecurity, or a related field; an advanced degree is preferred. Experience working in Agile environments, using tools such as JIRA and Confluence, and improving security operations. Proven ability to lead global engineering organizations and deliver complex, enterprise-wide technology initiatives. Ability to recruit, mentor, develop, and retain senior architects, engineers, engineering managers, and technical leaders across global locations. Exceptional executive communication, stakeholder influence and management, financial stewardship, vendor management, and change leadership skills. Responsibilities: Define and deliver our global client identity engineering strategy, target architecture, multiyear roadmap, and investment priorities. Set the technical vision for identity proofing, authentication, authorization, federation, consent, profile management, digital fraud controls, and identity lifecycle capabilities. Represent us in industry forums and strategic partnerships, anticipate market, regulatory, threat, and technology changes, and advise senior executives on identity risk, client experience, modernization, resilience, and emerging opportunities. Lead and develop globally distributed teams responsible for architecture, software development, platform engineering, reliability, testing, implementation, and production support. Deliver large-scale global identity programs in partnership with product, architecture, engineering, security, risk, and business teams. Establish reusable platforms, APIs, software development kits, automation, observability, and engineering standards that support adoption across markets and channels. Create an operating model for follow-the-sun delivery, clear ownership, consistent quality, effective capacity management, and rapid resolution of critical issues. Build a high-performing engineering culture focused on technical excellence, accountability, inclusion, continuous learning, and measurable outcomes. Lead experimentation, prototyping, threat modeling, and evidence-based evaluation of emerging technologies and standards; turn successful experiments into scalable, secure, reliable production solutions. Develop intellectual property, technical publications, external partnerships, and engineering communities that strengthen our industry credibility and help attract talent. Engineer identity platforms for high availability, horizontal scalability, regional resilience, graceful degradation, disaster recovery, and secure failover. Embed security, privacy, regulatory, accessibility, and data-minimization requirements throughout the engineering lifecycle. Strengthen defenses against account takeover, credential compromise, social engineering, identity fraud, session abuse, and AI-enabled threats. Define service-level objectives, operational readiness criteria, incident response practices, and continuous control validation for critical identity services. Technologies: Agentic AI AI Cloud Confluence Support JIRA OAuth OpenID Security Mobile Web More: We are Vanguard, and our mission is to support clients long-term financial wellbeing through products and services that can transform their lives. We are seeking a senior technology executive to lead client identity engineering and help strengthen client trust while enabling secure, seamless experiences across digital channels. We work through a mission-driven, collaborative culture and have a hybrid model for most team members, balancing flexibility with in-person learning, collaboration, and connection. We are not offering visa sponsorship for this position. last updated 40 week of 2026