Principal Cybersecurity Engineer – Identity & Access Management

Role Overview

• Own the enterprise IAM governance and architecture strategy.
• Define multi-year IAM roadmap aligned to Zero Trust and business priorities.
• Influence funding, prioritization, and sequencing of IAM initiatives.
• Represent identity risk and posture to senior leadership and governance forums.
• Establish enterprise identity reference architectures and guardrails.
• Act as final design authority for identity integrations and access models.
• Define authentication, authorization, and privilege models across platforms.
• Ensure consistency across workforce, application, and privileged identities.
• Guide adoption of password-less, JIT access, and adaptive authentication.
• Define enterprise IAM policies, standards, and control frameworks.
• Oversee access governance methodologies (reviews, certifications, exceptions).
• Establish IAM risk metrics and maturity assessments.
• Drive remediation of systemic identity risks.
• Provide executive-level support for audits and regulatory inquiries.
• Partner with IT, HR, Legal, Compliance, and Engineering teams.
• Influence identity operating models without direct operational ownership.
• Lead working groups and design councils related to identity.
• Evaluate IAM, IGA, and PAM technologies from a strategic perspective.
• Define success criteria for IAM tooling and integrations.
• Stay current with identity threat trends and evolving best practices.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in information technology, Information Security/Assurance, Computer Science, Engineering, or related field or equivalent combination of education and experience.
• 6-8 years of experience in cybersecurity, identity security, or security engineering.
• Deep expertise in IAM governance, architecture, and risk management.
• Proven experience leading enterprise-scale IAM initiatives.
• Strong understanding of zero trust identity architectures, RBAC / ABAC and role governance, privileged access governance and admin models, and Identity lifecycle / access assurance.
• Experience influencing architecture and security outcomes across large organizations.
• Excellent executive communication and stakeholder management skills.

Tech Stack

• Cyber Security

Benefits

• Generous remuneration package.
• Employee Stock Purchase Plan Enrollment.
• 30 days paid annual vacation.
• An extra day off for your birthday.
• 2 additional days off for volunteering.
• Premium healthcare and dental care coverage.
• Additional pension insurance.
• Well-equipped gym on-site with CrossFit equipment and a climbing wall.
• Co-funded Multisport card.
• Daycare Center for your little ones onsite.
• Flexible working hours.
• Free underground parking with a designated space for bikes, motorbikes and electric scooters.