Director, IAM Engineering Lead

<div class="content-intro"><p><strong>About CLS:</strong></p> <p>CLS is the trusted party at the centre of the global FX ecosystem.&nbsp; Utilized by thousands of counterparties, CLS makes FX safer, smoother and more cost effective.&nbsp; Trillions of dollars’ worth of currency flows through our systems each day.&nbsp;</p> <p>Created by the market for the market, our unrivalled global settlement infrastructure reduces systemic risk and provides standardization for participants in many of the world’s most actively traded currencies.&nbsp; We deliver huge efficiencies and savings for our clients: in fact, our approach to multilateral netting shrinks funding requirements by over 96% on average, so clients can put their capital and resources to better use.</p> <p>CLS products are designed to enable clients to manage risk most effectively across the full FX lifecycle – whether through more efficient processing tools or market intelligence derived from the largest single source of FX executed data available to the market.</p> <p>Our ambition to make a positive difference starts with our people.&nbsp; Our values underpin everything that we do at CLS and define our working environment:</p> <ul> <li>Pivotal purpose</li> <li>Trusted guardian</li> <li>Targeted innovation</li> <li>Facilitate connections</li> <li>Delivering excellence</li> <li>Inclusive culture</li> </ul></div><p><u>Job information:</u></p> <ul> <li>Functional title – IAM Engineering Lead</li> <li>Department - CISO</li> <li>Corporate level - Director</li> <li>Report to – Head of Security Architecture, Design and Engineering</li> <li>Location – Iselin, New Jersey. Onsite 2 days per week</li> </ul> <p><strong>&nbsp;</strong></p> <p><u>What you will be doing:</u></p> <p>As Head of IAM Engineering, you will lead the strategic design, implementation, and governance of a comprehensive identity and access management program that protects CLS Services' most critical asset: trusted digital identity. This is a hybrid executive and technical role that bridges security, compliance, and business enablement in a highly regulated financial services environment.</p> <p>You will be responsible for architecting and scaling identity systems across our workforce, customers, and machine identities—each with distinct risk profiles and regulatory demands. This includes accelerating onboarding of applications and infrastructure into our IGA platform, expanding our PAM scope to network devices and non-traditional endpoints, building a comprehensive secrets management capability, and embedding AI-assisted automation to reduce manual operational burden while