Director of Identity Platform Enablement Engineering (Global Security)

What is the opportunity?

The Director of Identity Platform Enablement Engineering (Automation + Incubation) Engineering leads the engineering strategy and delivery of shared automation, developer enablement, and new platform incubation across the Enterprise Identity and Access Management (EIAM) ecosystem. This role owns the horizontal engineering capabilities that accelerate how IAM teams onboard applications, operate their platforms, and bring new identity capabilities into production. It also serves as the launchpad for emerging IAM platforms — incubating them to operational maturity before handing them off to permanent owning teams.

Platform enablement is the multiplier across IAM engineering. As the organization scales identity capabilities — authorization, passwordless authentication, machine identity, and beyond — the speed and quality of delivery depend on shared automation, consistent patterns, and a disciplined incubation model for new platforms. This leader will build the engineering foundation that lets every IAM team move faster, operate more reliably, and adopt new capabilities with confidence.

What will you do?

• Solution Delivery, development, engineering and integration

• Own the engineering roadmap and delivery for shared IAM automation, developer enablement, and new IAM capabilities
• Establish a platform roadmap with measurable milestones for capability uplift, performance, and consumer experience
• Define engineering standards, architecture patterns, and operational practices for identity data, workflow, and API platforms
• Drive engineering excellence through automation, observability, and SRE practices across all owned services
• Ensure new projects/programs meet enterprise architectural and technology standards
• Lead cross-IAM onboarding automation using GitOps and Terraform-based infrastructure
• Drive operational automation for the IAM toolset (patching, certificate rotation, configuration management, support operations)
• Build and maintain shared CI/CD, Infrastructure-as-Code, and DevOps tooling for all IAM engineering teams
• Establish reference patterns, accelerators, and reusable components to reduce onboarding time and improve platform consistency
• Champion developer experience across the IAM organization
• Serve as incubation home for new IAM platforms—stand up, stabilize, operationalize, and transition emerging capabilities to permanent teams
• Define maturity criteria (operability, automation coverage, documentation, observability, team readiness) governing handoffs
• Establish a repeatable incubation playbook ensuring predictable quality and timing for new platform adoption
• Partner with receiving directors on knowledge transfer and clean operating-state transitions

• Collaborative working with other IAM teams

• Supports IAM framework implementation with monitoring, reporting, escalation, trend identification, and security issue resolution
• Provides project estimates and integration recommendations while ensuring consistency across business and technical functions
• Recommends process improvements for build/deployment automation and identifies cost-saving and operational efficiency opportunities
• Advises on agile delivery optimization and leads technical forums to foster team innovation
• Partners with Architecture, Product, Support, and Operations to align strategy with engineering execution

• Relationships & Communications:

• Develops and maintains strong relationships with the IAM managers, quality assurance analysts, business analysts, project managers, architects, business sponsors and technical staff.
• Excellent communications ability, both written and oral.
• Able to effectively present as required to all levels of Technology and Operation management.

• Developing & Coaching

• Lead a multi-disciplinary engineering team (senior managers, senior engineers, engineers); manage span of control, career growth, and technical depth
• Recruit, mentor, and develop high-performing talent with growth opportunities and performance objectives
• Establish a culture that attracts, retains, and motivates a diverse workforce; foster high engagement and deliver reliable, flexible, innovative solutions
• Drive team efficiency, effectiveness, and performance to excellence standards through quarterly reviews and comparative feedback
• Apply HR best practices and talent management to build capability and sustain a high-achievement environment
• Model continuous self-development

• Managerial Excellence:

• Ensures that employees understand RBC vision; support and reinforce targeted behaviors that contribute to RBC goals.
• Provides focus and clarity in establishing individual goals, driving performance management, supporting career development, and rewarding strong performance.
• Leverages the value in unit, department, and enterprise-wide teams to develop better solutions and achieve a cross-enterprise mindset.
• Accepts and successfully executes change while supporting employees through the process and keeping them focused on business priorities.
• Monitors configuration and software delivery automation trends and best practices ensuring the unit’s strategies and execution are aligned appropriately.

What do you need to succeed?

Must-have:

• 10+ years software/platform engineering; 5+ years leading engineering teams in Identity and Access Management or adjacent security domains
• Hands-on leadership with automation platforms, Infrastructure-as-Code (Terraform), GitOps, and CI/CD at enterprise scale
• Demonstrated success building shared platforms, developer tooling, or internal engineering products consumed by multiple teams
• Experience standing up new platforms and transitioning them to steady-state ownership
• Strong understanding of authentication and authorization concepts, including modern and passwordless approaches
• Ability to manage, grow, and develop engineering teams composed primarily of senior individual contributors
• Knowledge of banking/financial services regulatory landscape (FRB, Part 30, OSFI); experience designing identity platforms meeting regulatory and audit requirements
• Proven ability to lead cross-functional initiatives in complex, matrixed environments
• Proven experience leading teams in AI-assisted environments (e.g., GitHub Copilot, AI Agents) with focus on developer velocity and architectural integrity

Nice-to-have:

• Background in cybersecurity, identity governance, or GRC
• Experience with enterprise authorization platforms and policy engines
• Experience with FIDO2, WebAuthn, or other passwordless / phishing-resistant authentication standards
• Familiarity with Zero Trust Architecture and Just-In-Time Access models
• Experience building and operating internal developer platforms (IDPs) and golden-path tooling
• Experience leading platform handoffs between incubation and operational teams

Job Skills

Decision Making, Group Problem Solving, Identity Access Management (IAM), Information Security, Information Technology Security, IT Systems Integration, Negotiation, Software Development, Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC)

Additional Job Details

16 YORK ST:TORONTOTorontoCanada37.5Full timeTECHNOLOGY AND OPERATIONSRegularSalaried2026-05-142026-05-30

Note: Applications will be accepted until 11:59 PM on the day prior to the application deadline date above

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