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Manager - Identity & Access Management (IAM) Engineering

EY

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Compensation
$145–266K/yr
Location
Chicago, IL
Work Authorization
Not specified

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Job overview

EY seeks a Manager, IAM Engineering to lead implementation, automation, and operational engineering of enterprise identity platforms. The role modernizes identity services across governance, privileged access, cloud, machine, and AI-agent identities while advancing Zero Trust and identity security. The manager leads project workstreams, coordinates technical delivery, troubleshoots complex issues, and mentors junior engineers and developers.

Skills & qualifications

RequiredNice to have

Skills

IAM Engineering, requiredEnterprise IAM Platforms, requiredAuthentication, requiredAuthorization, requiredFederation, requiredAccess Governance, requiredPrivileged Access Management, requiredSecrets Management, requiredIdentity Lifecycle Management, requiredEnterprise Application Integration, requiredAPI Integration, requiredCloud Services Integration, requiredAutomation, requiredScripting, requiredTroubleshooting, requiredDelivery Leadership, requiredStakeholder Management, requiredSailPoint, nice to haveSaviynt, nice to haveMicrosoft Entra ID, nice to haveOkta, nice to havePing Identity, nice to haveForgeRock, nice to haveCyberArk, nice to haveDelinea, nice to haveBeyondTrust, nice to haveHashiCorp Vault, nice to haveMicrosoft Azure, nice to haveAWS, nice to haveGoogle Cloud, nice to haveActive Directory, nice to haveLDAP, nice to havePKI, nice to haveSCIM, nice to haveOAuth 2.0, nice to haveOpenID Connect, nice to haveSAML, nice to haveNon-Human Identity Management, nice to haveMachine Identity Security, nice to haveService Account Governance, nice to have

Qualifications

5+ Years IAM or Security Experience, requiredCISSP, nice to haveCISM, nice to haveMicrosoft Security Certification, nice to haveSailPoint Certification, nice to haveCyberArk Certification, nice to haveOkta Certification, nice to haveAWS Security Certification, nice to haveAzure Security Certification, nice to have

Benefits

Medical Insurance
Dental Insurance
401(k) Match
Paid Time Off

Full job description

At EY, we’re all in to shape your future with confidence.

We’ll help you succeed in a globally connected powerhouse of diverse teams and take your career wherever you want it to go. Join EY and help to build a better working world.

About the Role

We are seeking a Manager, IAM Engineering to lead the implementation, automation, and operational engineering of enterprise identity platforms. This role will modernize identity services across Identity Governance & Administration (IGA), Privileged Access Management (PAM), cloud identity, machine identities, and AI-agent identities while advancing Zero Trust and identity security capabilities.

Key Responsibilities

  • Implement and support IAM capabilities including IGA, PAM, SSO, MFA, directory services, federation, and identity lifecycle management.

  • Design and integrate IAM and PAM platforms with cloud, SaaS, and enterprise applications.

  • Automate identity provisioning, credential management, access governance, certification, and secrets-vaulting processes.

  • Engineer role-based, attribute-based, and policy-based authorization solutions across enterprise and cloud environments.

  • Implement controls for machine identities, service accounts, APIs, workloads, and other non-human identities.

  • Engineer AI-agent identity controls, including authentication, authorization, delegated permissions, credential management, least privilege, and lifecycle governance.

  • Develop automation using APIs, scripting, Infrastructure-as-Code, and CI/CD pipelines.

  • Support Identity Threat Detection & Response (ITDR), Cloud Infrastructure Entitlement Management (CIEM), and Zero Trust initiatives.

  • Lead project workstreams, coordinate technical delivery, troubleshoot complex issues, and mentor junior engineers and developers.

Required Qualifications

  • 5-8+ years of experience in IAM engineering, security engineering, DevSecOps, or cybersecurity.

  • Experience implementing, integrating, and supporting enterprise IAM platforms.

  • Strong understanding of authentication, authorization, federation, access governance, PAM, secrets management, and identity lifecycle management.

  • Experience integrating enterprise applications, APIs, and cloud services with identity platforms.

  • Strong automation, scripting, troubleshooting, delivery leadership, and stakeholder management skills.

Preferred Skills & Technologies

  • IAM Platforms: SailPoint, Saviynt, Microsoft Entra ID, Okta, Ping Identity, and ForgeRock.

  • PAM & Secrets: CyberArk, Delinea, BeyondTrust, and HashiCorp Vault.

  • Cloud & Infrastructure: Microsoft Azure, AWS, Google Cloud, Active Directory, LDAP, PKI, SCIM, OAuth 2.0, OpenID Connect, and SAML.

  • Modern Identity: Non-Human Identity management, machine identity security, service account governance, ITDR, CIEM, and workload identity.

  • AI & Emerging Identity: AI-agent identity management, agent-to-agent authentication, delegated authority, and autonomous-agent security controls.

  • Automation & DevSecOps: PowerShell, Python, Terraform, GitHub, Azure DevOps, REST APIs, Infrastructure-as-Code, and CI/CD pipelines.

Preferred Certifications

CISSP, CISM, and relevant Microsoft, SailPoint, CyberArk, Okta, AWS, or Azure security certifications.

What You'll Bring

A builder’s mindset and passion for engineering secure, automated, and scalable identity solutions. You will help modernize identity platforms, strengthen security controls, and enable secure access for employees, applications, machines, APIs, and AI agents.

Differentiator: Experience with PAM automation, secrets vaulting, machine identity management, AI-agent identity controls, RBAC/ABAC engineering, ITDR, CIEM, and cloud-native IAM platforms is highly desirable.

What we offer you

At EY, we harness our collective strength to empower you to shape your future with confidence through professional growth, personal fulfillment and an inclusive culture. Learn more at ey.com/us/careers.

  • We offer a comprehensive compensation and benefits package where you’ll be rewarded based on your performance and recognized for the value you bring to the business. The base salary range for this job is:

  • New York City, Boston, and Washington DC Metro Areas, Washington State, and Southern California offices – $173,900 to $290,100

  • Bay Area California offices – $181,200 to $302,100

  • All other offices locations in the US, including Sacramento – $144,900 to $265,800

  • Individual salaries within these ranges are determined through a wide variety of factors including but not limited to education, experience, knowledge, skills and geography. In addition, our Total Rewards package includes medical and dental coverage, pension and 401(k) plans, and a wide range of paid time off options.

  • Under our flexible vacation policy, you’ll decide how much vacation time you need based on your own personal circumstances. You’ll also be granted time off for designated EY Paid Holidays, Winter/Summer breaks, Personal/Family Care, and other leaves of absence when needed to support your physical, financial, and emotional well-being.

Are you ready to shape your future with confidence? Apply today.

  • To make the most of your application experience, please limit yourself to two applications within a six-month period.

  • EY accepts applications for this position on an on-going basis.

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  • At EY, our values set the foundation for how we work and the behaviors we expect of our people. Any misrepresentation or falsification of information or lack of integrity at any point in the recruiting process may result in withdrawal of your candidacy, revocation of an offer or immediate termination of employment.

EY | Building a better working world

EY is building a better working world by creating new value for clients, people, society and the planet, while building trust in capital markets.

Enabled by data, AI and advanced technology, EY teams help clients shape the future with confidence and develop answers for the most pressing issues of today and tomorrow.

EY teams work across a full spectrum of services in assurance, consulting, tax, strategy and transactions. Fueled by sector insights, a globally connected, multi-disciplinary network and diverse ecosystem partners, EY teams can provide services in more than 150 countries and territories.

All in to shape the future with confidence.

EY provides equal employment opportunities to applicants and employees without regard to race, color, religion, age, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity/expression, pregnancy, genetic information, national origin, protected veteran status, disability status, or any other legally protected basis, including arrest and conviction records, in accordance with applicable law.

EY is committed to providing reasonable accommodation to qualified individuals with disabilities including veterans with disabilities. If you have a disability and either need assistance applying online or need to request an accommodation during any part of the application process, please call 1-800-EY-HELP3, select Option 2 for candidate related inquiries, then select Option 1 for candidate queries and finally select Option 2 for candidates with an inquiry which will route you to EY’s Talent Shared Services Team (TSS) or email the TSS at [email protected] .

How this job compares

Set against the 817 open Identity and Access Management jobs on Olive Jobs, counted November 12, 2026.

Pay
  • This posting$145–266K/yr
  • Illinois median$123–232K/yr24 salary ranges
  • US median$123–232K/yr686 salary ranges

This range's midpoint, $205K, is 22% above the Illinois median midpoint ($168K) — in the middle half of Identity and Access Management salary ranges in Illinois.

Openings
Olive Jobs lists 27 open Identity and Access Management jobs in Illinois and 817 across the US. 6% of them nationwide are listed as remote or flexible.
Hiring the most in Illinois
Experience
This posting asks for at least 5 years of experience; Identity and Access Management postings that state a minimum ask for 6 years at the median (689 postings).
Education
285 of the 817 open Identity and Access Management jobs (35%) ask for a bachelor's degree or higher.

Counted across the open, public US postings on Olive Jobs on November 12, 2026. Pay medians are the middle values of the low ends and of the high ends of postings that list both ends of a range in the same cadence (a yearly salary or an hourly rate); a range's midpoint is halfway between its ends. Pay and experience figures resting on fewer than 20 postings are left out.

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