About the Role

The Head of identity security Team works to protect Uber; our customers, drivers, and partners; and the ride markets upon which we rely. As a senior leader within the organization, you'll build and lead a team that is responsible for building a world-class Identity security program while collaborating across Uber's business functions. You will continue to learn and stay current in a fun and rapidly changing environment. Develops the team's structure in alignment with broader organizational strategy and vision, owning: hiring, performance management and employee development of individual contributors as well as managers. Champions best software engineering practices and empowers managers to build a strong culture of quality to achieve operational excellence.

• Develop and maintain a vision and strategy for identity security that is industry leading and spans across heterogeneous environments such as on-prem, cloud, SaaS and 3rd party. Lead the transformation of identity to be the center of engineering security partnering with various security leaders such as Cyber defense and operations, privacy, risk and compliance effectively leveraging cutting edge security solutions such as FIDO2, Passwordless, risk-based identity with AI etc.
• Partner strategically with department heads and build functional relationships with peers across the organization to understand how identity is managed across all systems in Uber.
• Understand and guide the maturation of all Identity management processes including but not limited to identity joiner/mover/leaver as well potential just-in-time (JIT) identity with full automation that can be scaled out to support diversified business workflows including Mergers & Acquisitions (M&A).
• Have a strong background in software development and security, a proven track record of delivering large-scale production systems.
• As a technology leader with hands-on experience, develop a team with deep technical skills; coach and mentor individual contributors.
• Develop and lead the execution of multi-year plans related to scaling IAM processes with the rapid growth of Uber's business partner with other critical key security engineering leaders in the organization.
• Develop processes and procedures to ensure compliance with all applicable regulations, industry best practices, and customer obligations, owning the comprehensive IAM control testing and automation.
• Plan and lead initiatives to automate key IAM tasks using either industry tools or custom tools as required by the situation.
• Collaborate with IT leadership and other teams to develop, integrate, operate, and maintain solutions, processes, and teams responsible for access administration.
• Research and recommend new tools in support of business requirements
• Lead IAM operations at scale through modernization and automation using ML/AI.

• Bachelor's Degree or equivalent in Computer Science, Engineering, Mathematics or related field
• 12+ years full-time work experience in software engineering, product development and/or security engineering prior to Engineering Management experience
• 5+ years full-time Engineering Management work experience
• Ability to problems solve and make complex decisions with incomplete information in ambiguous situations and environments
• Great interpersonal skills, deep technical ability, and a track record of successful execution in engineering security or product development at cloud-scale.