Senior Manager, Staff Software Engineering - Identity and Access Management

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Position Summary

GEICO is seeking a Senior Manager to lead the Identity and Access Management team. In this role, you will drive innovation in the workforce and workload identity and access management domain and shape the way that we deploy, manage, and secure our identities. This role involves close collaboration with our business partners, product teams, and other GEICO tech teams to ensure we are leveraging modern identity platforms and practices to deliver a great experience to our consumers.

Position Description

As a Senior Manager, you will collaborate with cross-functional teams, providing technical leadership to innovate, design, and optimize Identity and Access Management at GEICO. You will drive the strategic technical roadmap, ensuring the delivery of high-quality products and unlocking new engineering capabilities.

Position Responsibilities

As a Senior Manager, you will:

• Lead the strategic design, development, and optimization of GEICO’s Identity and Access Management platforms.

• Manage a team of highly skilled engineers, providing mentorship, guidance, and support to foster professional growth and development.

• Collaborate closely with upstream Identity and Cyber communities to contribute to open source maintenance and enhancements, ensuring alignment with organizational objectives.

• Ensure the security, availability, and performance of our IdP and IGA applications implementing rigorous measures to safeguard critical assets.

• Keep abreast of emerging technologies and industry trends, guiding the team in recommending and implementing innovative solutions to drive continuous improvement.

• Define and enforce best practices and standards for OATH for our applications and fostering a culture of excellence, efficiency, and accountability.

• Collaborate with application team to implement RBAC/PBAC/ABAC solutions that reduce sensitive data exposure, thereby enhancing data security and minimizing the risk of unauthorized access.

• Create JIT and Zero Trust standards and processes for privilege identity management to ensure strong lifecycle management and governance for the identities that have access to GEICO’s most secure assets and data.

• Stay at the forefront of emerging identity trends, technologies, and best practices, and apply this knowledge to enhance GEICO’s identity protection strategies.

• Utilize agile methodologies to effectively prioritize tasks, manage workload, and meet project deadlines.

• Communicate technical concepts and solutions clearly to both technical and non-technical stakeholders, facilitating alignment and understanding across teams.

• Provide technical guidance and mentorship to the team, fostering a culture of innovation, collaboration, and continuous improvement.

Qualifications

• Deep understanding of security principles and technologies in the Identity and Access Management domain: RBAC/PBAC/ABAC, SSO (OAUTH/SAML), Active Directory, Cloud IdPs, Passwordless (Passkey/Hardware Token) and related concepts. Demonstrated ability to design and implement resilient, scalable, and efficient solutions.

• Deep understanding of Identity Governance and Compliance policies and practices

• Extensive experience in partnering with engineering teams and transferring research to production, demonstrating a track record of successful collaboration and delivery.

• Strong familiarity with continuous delivery and infrastructure as code practices, driving efficiency and agility in development and deployment processes.

• Fluency in DevOps concepts, Cloud Architecture, and operational frameworks, enabling effective deployment and management of cloud-based infrastructure.

• Strong problem-solving abilities and a proactive approach to identifying and mitigating security risks and vulnerabilities.

• Excellent communication skills, able to communicate complete technical concepts to technical and non-technical stakeholders.

• One or more of the following certifications are highly desired:

  • Certified Information Systems