Identity and Access Management Lead

Requirements

• Strong experience leading IAM, IGA, PAM, or identity-security engineering in a complex technology environment.
• Deep knowledge of identity governance, privileged access, secrets management, authentication, and authorization.
• Practical experience with SailPoint, Active Directory, Entra ID, Okta, PAM technologies, and HashiCorp Vault.
• Experience redesigning production access and implementing least-privilege and time-bound access models.
• Strong understanding of human, service, workload, and machine identities.
• Experience delivering SSO, MFA, passwordless authentication, and modern application-authorization models.
• Strong technical capability across APIs, automation, scripting, and system integration.
• A good understanding of Windows, Linux, cloud, and modern software-delivery environments.
• Experience leading technical teams and turning complex security risks into practical engineering priorities.

What You'll Be Doing

• Lead QRT’s IAM and IGA strategy, architecture, roadmap, and delivery.
• Develop identity lifecycle management, application onboarding, entitlement governance, and access certification.
• Redesign Active Directory groups, legacy permissions, and access models, establishing clear ownership of applications, roles, entitlements, and access decisions.
• Develop pragmatic role- and attribute-based access models and improve the automation and accuracy of joiner, mover, and leaver processes.
• Own the global PAM programme, including the continued development and adoption of PrivX.
• Redesign privileged access to production, infrastructure, cloud, and trading-critical environments.
• Reduce standing privileges through controlled, time-bound, and auditable access, with effective controls for administrative accounts, emergency access, and privilege escalation.
• Own the enterprise secrets-management programme and HashiCorp Vault platform.
• Define how credentials, certificates, API keys, and other secrets are created, stored, rotated, and revoked.
• Reduce embedded, shared, and long-lived credentials, while establishing governance for service accounts, workloads, applications, and AI-agent identities.
• Lead authentication and authorization programs across the workforce, infrastructure, cloud, and internally developed applications.
• Develop strategies and reusable patterns for SSO, MFA, passwordless authentication, phishing-resistant credentials, applications, APIs, platforms, and production systems.
• Lead and develop the IAM team, manage specialist partners and vendors, and work closely with Security, Infrastructure, Cloud, Engineering, application owners, and business teams.
• Maintain a clear roadmap, define meaningful measures, communicate progress and risks, and support security incidents, audits, and regulatory reviews involving identity or access.

Perks and Benefits

• QRT is an equal opportunity employer.
• Initiatives and programs to enable employees to achieve a healthy work-life balance.