Sr Director of Software Engineering Global AuthE

What you'll do

• Set technical strategy and govern architecture for high-volume authentication platforms, ensuring security, scalability, resiliency, and performance.
• Direct concurrent enterprise initiatives, technical risk, resources, and cross-functional alignment; advise on customer authentication and IAM strategy.
• Lead and mentor senior engineering teams and establish governance for agentic AI-enabled engineering and SDLC automation.

What they ask for

• Formal training or certification in software engineering concepts and 10+ years of applied experience, including 5+ years leading technologists.
• Enterprise architecture leadership across application, data, and infrastructure for large-scale platforms; hands-on production-grade software engineering experience.
• Demonstrated leadership of mission-critical, high-volume customer-facing platforms and strong engineering governance for security, resiliency, scalability, and performance.
• Experience leading multi-organization adoption of agentic AI-enabled engineering models, including governance, measurement, and responsible AI risk controls.

Nice to have

• IAM and customer authentication experience, including OIDC/OAuth2, SAML2, FIDO2/WebAuthn, MFA, risk-based authentication, federation, and SSO.
• Executive communication skills translating technical trade-offs into decisions for senior stakeholders.

Pay

USD 232,750.00-$325,000.00 base salary

Tools

Java, APIs, databases, messaging, OIDC, SAML2, FIDO2, OAuth2

AI focus

Leads firmwide adoption and governance of agentic AI-enabled engineering and SDLC/TLM automation, including AI-orchestrated delivery, automated testing, resilience engineering, incident response, and responsible AI controls.