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Ourtechnologyteam is made upof a team of SoftwareEngineers, Testers, DevOps Engineers, Security Engineers, UX Designers, Quantitative Analysts and Data Base Analysts.We buildsoftware for our clients that range across multiple sectorsand industries as well as tools for our internal users to help them better serve our clients.Our team is a global teamlocatedin four different countries and multiple time zones. We interact daily with each other as well as our key business stakeholdersto ensure quality and speedy delivery of our product offerings.

The Director of Identity and Access Management (IAM) plays a critical role in enabling Chatham's technology strategy by ensuring our identity, authentication, and authorization capabilities are secure, scalable, and deliver an exceptional end-user experience.

In this role you will:

• Lead the design and evolution of application-layer authorization systems, with a focus on fine-grained and relationship-based access control (ReBAC/FGA) models.

• Own architectural decisions and implementation approaches for authorization, including modeling, performance, and scalability considerations using modern platforms (e.g., AuthZed/SpiceDB, Auth0 FGA, Entra).

• Provide hands-on technical leadership, including guiding system design, reviewing authorization models, and contributing to implementation decisions where needed.

• Be responsible for leading strategic planning & roadmaps including partnering with Product Management to define and execute a long-term IAM product roadmap aligned with business objectives, client needs, and regulatory requirements.

• Partner with Enterprise Architecture to design and evolve a long-term technical roadmap for identity, authentication, and authorization platforms.

• Balance near-term delivery commitments with long-term platform scalability, resilience, and modernization goals.

• Provide Engineering Leadership & Delivery including leading and growing teams of engineers responsible for customer-facing identity and fine-grained authorization platforms, including authentication and complex authorization.

• Oversee the design and delivery of role-, attribute-, and relationship-based access control models using modern authorization platforms.

• Establish strong engineering practices focused on secure-by-design development, operational excellence, reliability, and performance.

• Manage IAM projects, budgets, and vendor relationships, including modern identity and authorization providers.

• Establishing and enforcing IAM policies, standards, and procedures

• Be accountable for Security & Risk Management including:

• Own the security posture of IAM platforms, ensuring alignment with industry best practices, internal security standards, and regulatory expectations.

• Partner closely with Information Security, Risk, and Compliance teams to support audits, threat modeling, and incident response related to identity and access.

• Champion zero-trust and least-privilege principles while enabling pragmatic, business-aligned outcomes.

• Enable Customer Experience and Commercial Growth by ensuring all end user onboarding to Chatham technology products is secure, intuitive and frictionless

• Collaborate with Marketing and Marketing Technology teams to maintain a single, unified enterprise view of end users and customers.

• Partner with UX team to enable consistent identity experiences across products while supporting future growth, new offerings, and evolving customer journeys.

• Lead People & Organizational Design by leading effective performance management and professional development for IAM engineering teams.

• Perform strategic workforce planning to ensure the right skills and capacity to deliver against both short- and long-term roadmaps.

• Foster a culture of collaboration, accountability, innovation, and continuous improvement.

Contributors to your success:

Ideally, you will have some or most of the following qualifications. More importantly, you bring the desire, drive, and ability to learn and become a key contributor in these areas:

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, or a related field;

• 10+ years of experience in software or platform engineering, with significant depth in Identity and Access Management.

• Proven experience leading and developing high-performing engineering teams.

• Experience designing and implementing fine-grained authorization systems (ReBAC/FGA), including modeling complex access relationships and tradeoffs

• Experience working with or evaluating modern authorization platforms (e.g., AuthZed/SpiceDB, Auth0 FGA, Entra) in production environments

• Strong engineering background with the ability to reason about distributed systems, latency, and scalability impacts of authorization decisions

• Strong understanding of modern security principles such as zero trust, least privilege, and defense in depth

• Excellent communication, collaboration, and stakeholder management skills

Key Technology Platforms

• Auth0 (authentication, identity lifecycle management, federation)

• AuthZed/SpiceDB(fine-grained, relationship-based authorization)

• Microsoft Azure (cloud infrastructure, identity integrations, security services)