Senior Manager, Engineering, IAM

Job Summary:

About Us:

The Enterprise Technology mission is to deliver technology solutions that align to business strategies while enabling enterprise efficiency and promoting cross-company collaborative innovation. The Enterprise Technology organization drives our competitive advantage by enhancing consumer experiences, enabling business growth, and advancing operational excellence. Enterprise Technology is guided by the principles of being service focused and collaborative, being biased for action and innovation, and being efficient through leverage of TWDC scale and through continuous improvement.

Disney’s Enterprise Technology Identity and Access Management (IAM) group is responsible for providing a Core IAM ecosystem of products and platforms in use across the company by cast members, employees, and partners within Disney’s business segments (DMED, DPEP, Studios, DGE) and Corporate functions. Our vision is to provide modern Identity and Access Management capabilities and services that are simple, seamless, and secure to protect our workforce, our data, and our brands.

What You Will Do:

The Senior Manager, Engineering – IAM is responsible for leading the integration, implementation, and transformation of vendor-based and internally developed IAM products and platforms that support cast members, employees, and partners of Disney.  You will lead a cross-disciplinary team to plan, validate, and execute on deliverables for technical integration and implementation of our IAM services in coordination with IAM domain architects, service managers, platform engineers, software engineers, and our operations teams.

You will work closely with product management and enterprise architecture and oversee service owners, to ensure alignment with Enterprise Technology strategies, standards and policies. This role often includes closely coordinating with other teams who are responsible for supporting a service including insourced, outsourced and vendor-managed teams.

You will contribute to the platform/solutions engineering efforts for Enterprise IAM products and services. This includes:

• Provides leadership to professional staff
• Develops and manages budgets, and prepares forecasts; assists in AOP planning
• Responsible for setting Team goals and expectations, tracking progress against the goals for the team, ensuring feedback, and addressing performance problems and issues promptly. Mentor to develop capabilities.
• Develops departmental plans, including business, production and/or organizational priorities
• Works to build collaboration across teams within organization, and outside of their organization.

Must Have:

• 10+ years’ experience in leading IT / enterprise technology teams in supporting identity and access, enterprise platforms, and/or collaboration ecosystems within diverse enterprises
• 5+ years’ experience with implementing or maintaining large-scale identity and access management solutions, experienced in areas such as:
  • Products/Vendors: Okta, Active Directory (AzureAD/AD), Ping, Azure AD, SailPoint, BeyondTrust, Siteminder
  • Single Sign-On; Multi-Factor Authentication (MFA), Passwordless
  • Identity Federation, SSO, HCM (e.g., SAP, Workday) and IAM Data Integration
  • PAM, IGA
  • Familiarity/experience with managing certificate lifecycle and integration
  • Protocols/Standards such as SAML, SCIM, OAuth2, OIDC, LDAP, FIDO2, Kerberos
• 5+ years providing technical leadership and oversight to other engineers
• Knowledge of ITIL concepts applied to operational procedures for end-user IT enablement
• Cross-functional technology skills in areas such as public cloud, SaaS and on-premises applications and platforms, devices, and remote access
• 3+ years’ experience in contributing to large, transformational IT initiatives
• 5+ years’ experience working with suppliers in an outsourced environment

Nice to Have:

• Strong knowledge with sensitive data handling such as COPPA, PCI and PII, GDPR, Safe Harbor
• Familiarity with deployments and integration of IAM solutions with public cloud providers (Azure, AWS, Google Cloud)
• Okta Certified Consultant
• Professional certifications in other identity and access management platforms and products (Active Directory, Ping, SailPoint)
• CISSP/Security Certifications

Education:

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Information Systems, Software, Electrical or Electronics Engineering, or comparable field of study, and/or equivalent work experience.

About The Walt Disney Company (Corporate):

At Disney Corporate you can see how the businesses behind the Company’s powerful brands come together to create the most innovative, far-reaching and admired entertainment company in the world. As a member of a corporate team, you’ll work with world-class leaders driving the strategies that keep The Walt Disney Company at the leading edge of entertainment. See and be seen by other innovative thinkers as you enable the greatest storytellers in the world to create memories for millions of families around the globe.

About The Walt Disney Company:

The Walt Disney Company, together with its subsidiaries and affiliates, is a leading diversified international family entertainment and media enterprise with the following business segments: Disney Entertainment, ESPN, Disney Parks, and Experiences and Products. From humble beginnings as a cartoon studio in the 1920s to its preeminent name in the entertainment industry today, Disney proudly continues its legacy of creating world-class stories and experiences for every member of the family. Disney’s stories, characters and experiences reach consumers and guests from every corner of the globe. With operations in more than 40 countries, our employees and cast members work together to create entertainment experiences that are both universally and locally cherished.

This position is with Disney Worldwide Services, Inc., which is part of a business we call The Walt Disney Company (Corporate).

Disney Worldwide Services, Inc. is an equal opportunity employer. Applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, age, national origin, sexual orientation, gender identity, disability, protected veteran status or any other basis prohibited by federal, state or local law. Disney fosters a business culture where ideas and decisions from all people help us grow, innovate, create the best stories and be relevant in a rapidly changing world.