Director, Cloud Identity and Access Management

Location

This role requires associates to be in-office 3 days per week, fostering collaboration and connectivity, while providing flexibility to support productivity and work-life balance. This approach combines structured office engagement with the autonomy of virtual work, promoting a dynamic and adaptable workplace. Alternate locations may be considered if candidates reside within a commuting distance from an office.

Please note that per our policy on hybrid/virtual work, candidates not within a reasonable commuting distance from the posting location(s) will not be considered for employment, unless an accommodation is granted as required by law.

Director, Cloud IAM is responsible for leading the strategy, design, and delivery of cloud-native Identity & Access Management (IAM) capabilities across all service models—SaaS, IaaS, and PaaS—and cloud providers. This role drives the development of scalable, policy-driven IAM solutions that enable dynamic, just-in-time access to cloud resources, applications, and services. As a key contributor to the enterprise's digital transformation and cloud adoption strategy, the Director ensures IAM capabilities are embedded into cloud-native architectures, Dev Ops workflows, and CI/CD pipelines.

• Define and maintain the cloud IAM product roadmap, aligned to cloud adoption, digital transformation, and enterprise security priorities.
• Enable policy-based, automated just-in-time access to cloud resources, integrated with enterprise identity platforms.
• Embed IAM into cloud-native architectures, including federated identity, workload identity, secrets management, and entitlement/access governance.
• Establishes and maintains collaborative relationships, partnering with cloud engineering, cybersecurity, application development, and infrastructure teams to deliver secure, frictionless identity services that support agility, compliance, and innovation.
• Evaluates emerging technologies and ensures IAM solutions meet regulatory and policy, and audit requirements, aligned to frameworks such as NIST and ISO 27001.
• Define, track, and report KPIs and success metrics to demonstrate measurable business value and security outcomes.
• Develops Technology Plan and Forecast for an enterprise application, enterprise-wide tool, infrastructure, or a center or domain that is equivalent in scope and complexity, and/or manages day-to-day operations for a major portion of a functional area or department.
• Ensures disaster recovery and business continuity plan are implemented, monitored, and updated on a recurring basis.
• Directs multiple work functions/applications or major projects/programs with broad scope and strategic business impact.
• Establishes business objectives and integrates operational plans.
• Negotiates the resolution of intra-organizational issues in the balanced best interests of the business.
• Hires, trains, coaches, counsels, and evaluate performance of direct reports.

Requires a BA/BS degree in Information Technology, Computer Science or related field of study and a minimum of 7 years of IT management experience; or any combination of education and experience, which would provide an equivalent background.

• Ability to manage across geographically diverse associates and vendor partners strongly preferred.
• Experience contributing to enterprise IAM strategy, providing expertise in cloud identity, access governance, and secure service integration is strongly preferred.

Please be advised that Elevance Health only accepts resumes for compensation from agencies that have a signed agreement with Elevance Health. Any unsolicited resumes, including those submitted to hiring managers, are deemed to be the property of Elevance Health.

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