TD

Head of Applied Identity Engineering

TD

full-time

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Location Type: Hybrid

Location: Mount Laurel • New Jersey • 🇺🇸 United States

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Salary

💰 $250,000 - $370,000 per year

Job Level

Lead

Tech Stack

Cloud

About the role

  • Lead the vision, development, and implementation of enterprise-grade identity solutions foundational to secure business operations
  • Shape the technical direction of identity services, ensuring they are reliable, scalable, and built for the future
  • Set the strategy for how digital identities are created, managed, and secured across the enterprise
  • Ensure seamless integration of identity platforms with both cloud-native and on-premises environments
  • Provide people management leadership: hire talent, set goals, develop staff, manage performance and compensation, promote teamwork, handle disciplinary actions
  • Define and evolve the enterprise-wide approach to digital identity by setting standards for design, deployment, and maintenance of identity services
  • Lead creation of secure and flexible identity solutions supporting workforce, customer, and partner access across diverse technologies and environments
  • Guide development of services handling authentication, authorization, lifecycle management, and entitlements at global scale
  • Ensure identity platforms are optimized for high availability, performance, and elastic growth, supporting legacy and cloud-based systems
  • Provide direction on adoption of modern identity frameworks, protocols, and tools (zero trust, password-less, decentralized identity)
  • Partner with security, infrastructure, product, and business teams to align identity capabilities with organizational needs and digital transformation initiatives
  • Build and lead a high-performing team of engineers and technical leads; foster innovation, continuous learning, and engineering excellence
  • Ensure identity services meet internal and regulatory requirements while enabling operational agility and user experience
  • Set clear metrics to evaluate service health, technical debt, and modernization progress; present results to executive leadership

Requirements

  • Bachelor’s degree is preferred
  • 10+ years of experience in financial crimes management, risk management, or compliance within the financial services or related industry
  • Proven experience in managing and leading teams in a regulatory and risk-focused environment
  • In-depth knowledge of AML regulations, fraud detection, and prevention frameworks
  • Strong analytical skills and experience working with data and technology-driven solutions for risk management
  • Excellent communication, leadership, and project management skills
  • Certifications such as CAMS (Certified Anti-Money Laundering Specialist) or CFE (Certified Fraud Examiner) are a plus
  • Deep expertise in identity systems and modern engineering practices
  • Experience with identity frameworks and protocols, zero trust principles, password-less access, and decentralized identity models
  • Experience integrating identity platforms with cloud-native and on-premises environments
  • Experience designing authentication, authorization, lifecycle management, and entitlement services at global scale
  • Experience ensuring high availability, performance, and elastic growth of identity platforms
  • Experience setting standards and technical direction for identity services and platforms
Benefits
  • Base pay and variable compensation/incentive awards (eligibility for cash and/or equity incentive awards)
  • Health and well-being benefits
  • Savings and retirement programs
  • Paid time off (including Vacation PTO, Flex PTO, and Holiday PTO)
  • Banking benefits and discounts
  • Career development and professional development opportunities (regular leadership and development conversations, mentorship, training programs, online learning platform)
  • Reward and recognition programs
  • Training and onboarding sessions

ATS Keywords

Tip: use these terms in your resume and cover letter to boost ATS matches.

Hard skills
identity solutionsidentity servicesdigital identity managementauthenticationauthorizationlifecycle managemententitlementsidentity frameworkszero trustdecentralized identity
Soft skills
people managementleadershipcommunicationproject managementteamworkanalytical skillsinnovationcontinuous learningengineering excellenceperformance management
Certifications
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