Director, IAM Engineering – AI & Non-Human Identity

Job Description

Company: Autodesk

Location: Washington, US

Position Overview

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, and emerging AI and agentic identity patterns.

Job Requisition ID # 26WD97993

This role is remote‑friendly within North America and can also be based in San Francisco, CA; Portland, OR; Boston, MA; Denver, CO; or Toronto, ON. Travel requirements are approximately 20%.

Responsibilities

• Define the engineering strategy, architecture, and roadmap for Autodesk’s IAM platforms across workforce, non‑human, and agentic identity

• 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

Minimum 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

Why This Role Matters

Identity is a foundational control plane for Autodesk. This role ensures Autodesk can scale modern identity engineering across human, non‑human, and agentic identities while maintaining the control boundaries, auditability, and operational maturity required for enterprise and public sector environments.

Benefits

From health and financial benefits to time away and everyday wellness, we give Autodeskers the best, so they can do their best work. Learn more about our benefits in the U.S. by visiting https://benefits.autodesk.com/

Salary Transparency

Salary is one part of Autodesk’s competitive compensation package. For U.S.–based roles, we expect a starting base salary between $174,000 and $312,180. Offers are based on the candidate’s experience and geographic location, and may exceed this range. In addition to base salaries, our compensation package may include annual cash bonuses, commissions for sales roles, stock grants, and a comprehensive benefits package.

Equal Employment Opportunity

At Autodesk, we’re building a diverse workplace and an inclusive culture to give more people the chance to imagine, design, and make a better world. Autodesk is proud to be an equal opportunity employer and considers all qualified applicants for employment without regard to race, color, religion, age, sex, sexual orientation, gender, gender identity, national origin, disability, veteran status or any other legally protected characteristic. We also consider for employment all qualified applicants regardless of criminal histories, consistent with applicable law.

Diversity & Belonging

We take pride in cultivating a culture of belonging where everyone can thrive. Learn more here: https://www.autodesk.com/company/diversity-and-belonging

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