Senior Manager, IAM Authentication

NBCUniversal

Senior Manager for IAM Authentication at NBCUniversal, driving enterprise authentication services and collaborating with cybersecurity and engineering teams to ensure secure access and service reliability.

Posted 6/13/2026full-timeRemote • New York • 🇺🇸 United StatesSenior💰 $175,000 - $210,000 per yearWebsite

Tech Stack

Tools & technologies

AzureCyber Security

About the role

Key responsibilities & impact

Influence and drive the roadmap and delivery for enterprise authentication services across multiple Microsoft Entra ID tenants, establishing operational objectives and work plans that ensure consistent security controls, lifecycle management, and service reliability.
Own and govern federation services, including PingFederate/PingOne components and Entra ID federation configurations, ensuring high availability, secure configuration baselines, certificate/key management, and resilient failover.
Establish and enforce MFA and SSO standards for enterprise applications, including onboarding patterns, authentication methods, step-up authentication, and user experience guardrails.
Partner with cybersecurity, architecture, and application teams to design and implement conditional access patterns, risk-based access decisions, and modern authentication protocols (e.g., SAML, OIDC/OAuth) where applicable.
Partner with IAM Operations, Architecture, and Software Development teams and leadership.
Provide leadership and direction for day-to-day engineering: incident response, problem management, change management, release planning, maintenance windows, and service reliability objectives for authentication platforms.
Drive automation to remove friction from manual processes (e.g., application onboarding, federation configuration validation, certificate rotation, access policy deployment) and improve speed, quality, and traceability.
Manage vendor and partner relationships related to authentication and federation technologies; oversee the department budget for tools and services, including licensing and renewals, with an emphasis on operational effectiveness and measurable outcomes.
Lead and develop a high-performing team of 4 direct reports and multiple offshore-based staff members; set clear expectations, coach and mentor managers/engineers, conduct performance management, develop succession plans, and foster a culture of accountability, collaboration, and continuous improvement.
Develop and report KPIs and operational metrics (e.g., availability, authentication success rates, MFA adoption, onboarding lead time, incident trends) to management and stakeholders, providing clear status, risks, and mitigation plans.
Serve as an escalation point for authentication outages and high-severity security events; coordinate communications and remediation across technical and business stakeholders.
Experience partnering with risk, audit, and compliance teams to implement and evidence controls.

Requirements

What you’ll need

Bachelor’s degree or equivalent work experience.
8+ years of experience in identity and access management, authentication engineering, or security engineering or architecture.
3+ years of management experience leading technical teams delivering highly available services.
Understanding of Microsoft Entra ID (Azure AD), including multi-tenant/complex enterprise environments.
Understanding of federation services and SSO integrations (e.g., PingFederate/PingOne and/or comparable federation stacks) and common protocols (SAML 2.0, OIDC, OAuth 2.0).
Understanding of MFA methods and authentication assurance.
Demonstrated ability to communicate complex security and identity concepts to both technical and executive audiences and influence without direct authority.

Benefits

Comp & perks

medical, dental and vision insurance
401(k)
paid leave
tuition reimbursement
a variety of other discounts and perks

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Hard Skills & Tools

identity and access managementauthentication engineeringsecurity engineeringMicrosoft Entra IDPingFederatePingOneSAML 2.0OIDCOAuth 2.0MFA methods

Soft Skills

leadershipcommunicationinfluencecoachingmentoringcollaborationaccountabilitycontinuous improvementproblem managementincident response