Senior Manager, Product Software Arch and Eng

Who are we?

Equinix is the world’s digital infrastructure company®, shortening the path to connectivity to enable the innovations that enrich our work, life and planet. 

A place where tech thinkers and future builders turn bold ideas into breakthrough experiences, we welcome your unique perspective.

Help us challenge assumptions, uncover bias, and remove barriers—because progress starts with fresh ideas. You’ll find belonging, purpose, and a team that welcomes you—because when you feel valued, you’re empowered to do your best work.

About the Role 

We are looking for a Senior Manager to lead our Identity team in modernizing our IAM platform through a standards-based, federation-first approach. This role combines technical leadership, strategic planning, and people's development, ensuring secure and scalable identity solutions across a global organization. 

What You’ll Do 

Leadership & People Development 

• Lead and mentor engineering teams and managers, fostering an inclusive and collaborative environment. 

• Support career growth through coaching, development plans, and succession planning. 

• Promote innovation and model company values. 

Software Engineering  & IAM

• Provide technical leadership and guidance to engineering teams, ensuring best practices in software development. 

• Contribute software architecture, design reviews, and DevOps processes for IAM-related projects. 

• Ensure systems are highly available, secure, and optimized for performance. 

• Recognize and continuously improve software engineering standards and practices within the team. 

• Collaborate on product roadmap planning and infrastructure needs to support future growth. 

• Offer insights on migration and integration of external, federated identities into legacy systems. 

• Promote operational excellence, including incident management and root cause analysis. 

• Encourage innovation and adoption of modern technologies to enhance IAM capabilities. 

• Drive IAM architecture modernization and adoption of industry standards: OAuth 2.0+, OIDC, SAML, SCIM, RBAC, ABAC, MFA. 

• Experience with Auth0 preferred; familiarity with Keycloak, Okta, PingFederate is a plus. 

Project & Program Management 

• Plan and deliver cross-functional projects on time and within budget. 

• Identify and mitigate risks; resolve issues effectively. 

• Communicate project status clearly to stakeholders. 

Stakeholder Engagement 

• Act as a trusted technical liaison for customer advisories and incident resolution. 

• Build strong relationships with senior leadership and cross-functional teams. 

• Facilitate constructive conflict resolution and set clear expectations. 

Operational