[Hiring] Director, IAM Engineering @Autodesk

Role Description

Autodesk’s Enterprise Identity Services team is looking for a Director, IAM Engineering to lead the strategy and execution for modern Identity and Access Management engineering across:

• Workforce identity
• Non-human identity
• Directory and identity infrastructure
• Authentication
• Federation
• Access governance integrations
• Identity platform modernization
• Emerging AI and agentic identity patterns

This leader will own the IAM Engineering pillar and build a scalable engineering organization that delivers secure, resilient, and developer-friendly identity platforms across Autodesk. The role will partner closely with:

• Director of IAM Operations
• Senior Manager of IAM Security and Trust

Responsibilities include:

• Define the engineering strategy, architecture, and roadmap for Autodesk’s IAM platforms.
• Lead engineering teams responsible for IAM platforms, APIs, automation services, and identity integrations.
• Oversee engineering for SailPoint, Microsoft Entra, Okta, SSO, MFA, app onboarding, directory services, identity verification, and privileged access integrations.
• Build secure, scalable, and reusable identity paved roads for internal teams.
• Own engineering patterns for non-human identities including service accounts, workload identities, API identities, automation accounts, and federated machine identities.
• Define secure patterns for agentic and on behalf of identity, including OBO flows, delegated access, scoped tokens, constrained execution, and least privilege controls.
• Drive adoption of short-lived credentials, federation, secret reduction, lifecycle controls, and stronger ownership for non-human and agentic identities.
• Ensure engineering designs align to least privilege, privileged access, separation of duties, logging, and traceability requirements.
• Partner with IAM Security and Trust on RBAC, ABAC, PIM, PAM integrations, auditability, and identity risk reduction.
• Lead and grow a high performing IAM Engineering organization with strong technical ownership, delivery standards, and production readiness.
• Encourage effective and secure use of AI assisted engineering tools to improve delivery, documentation, and operational efficiency.

Qualifications

• 10+ years of experience in IAM, security engineering, platform engineering, or related enterprise identity domains.
• 5+ years leading engineering teams responsible for IAM platforms, identity services, or security infrastructure at enterprise scale.
• Strong experience with SailPoint, Microsoft Entra, and Okta.
• Deep knowledge of OAuth2, OIDC, SAML, JWT, token exchange, OBO flows, federation, and modern workload identity patterns.
• Experience designing identity architectures across SSO, MFA, provisioning, lifecycle automation, directory services, access governance, and app onboarding.
• Experience securing and engineering for non-human identities across cloud, CI CD, platform, and runtime environments.
• Experience defining secure patterns for agentic identity and software acting on behalf of users or services.
• Strong engineering fundamentals across APIs, automation, distributed systems, CI CD, observability, and secure platform delivery.
• Experience with privileged access, admin tiering, just in time access, and strong production control boundaries.
• Experience working in regulated environments, including FedRAMP, public sector, or similarly controlled environments.
• Experience using AI tools to improve engineering productivity, design quality, analysis, or automation with sound security judgment.
• Strong cross-functional leadership skills and the ability to influence operations, security, compliance, and engineering stakeholders.

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience with Active Directory modernization, hybrid identity, and directory sync architecture.
• Experience building identity paved roads and reusable engineering patterns.
• Experience supporting public sector identity requirements and stronger compliance evidence models.
• Experience with custom identity services, identity APIs, AI enabled platforms, and platform modernization programs.

Benefits

• Health and financial benefits
• Time away and everyday wellness
• Competitive compensation package including base salary, annual cash bonuses, commissions for sales roles, stock grants, and a comprehensive benefits package.