Director, Identity and Access Management

Job Description:

Overview:

We don't simply hire employees. We invest in them. When you work at Chatham, we empower you - offering professional development opportunities to help you grow in your career, no matter if you've been here for five months or 15 years. Chatham has worked hard to create a distinct work environment that values people, teamwork, integrity, and client service. You will have immediate opportunities to partner with talented subject matter experts, work on complex projects, and contribute to the value Chatham delivers every day.


Our technology team is made up of a team of Software Engineers, Testers, DevOps Engineers, Security Engineers, UX Designers, Quantitative Analysts and Data Base Analysts. We build software for our clients that range across multiple sectors and industries as well as tools for our internal users to help them better serve our clients. Our team is a global team located in four different countries and multiple time zones. We interact daily with each other as well as our key business stakeholders to 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:

• 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 all Identity and Access Management capabilities, including authentication, identity lifecycle management, and complex fine-grained 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
  
  

• 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 the end user onboarding to Chatham technology products are 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.
  
  

• Deep knowledge of modern IAM platforms and patterns, including authentication, identity federation, and fine-grained authorization models (RBAC, ABAC, ReBAC).
  
  

• 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)
  
  

About Chatham Financial:

Chatham Financial is the leading independent capital markets advisor, delivering an integrated blend of expert advice and powerful technology to help you reduce risk and seize opportunity. With decades of capital markets strategy, execution, monitoring, and performance expertise, we serve as an unwavering advocate for your best interests and your innovation partner. Our technology platform unifies data across assets, debt, and derivatives, giving you unmatched agility, transparency, and insight.

It's clear ahead.

Our commitment is to carry that light forward in every partnership, every solution, and every market we serve.

We help guide the way-giving clients the insight and momentum to move forward with confidence, no matter what lies ahead.