Senior Director, IAM Engineering & Operations
UKG · Atlanta, GA
$207,400–$298,100from the description
Jul 17, 2026
Atlanta, GA
Jul 21, 2026
What this job asks for AI summary
A senior leadership role responsible for the full scope of identity and access management across both internal enterprise systems and customer-facing SaaS platforms. The position covers IAM engineering and operations, privileged access management, PKI, Active Directory modernization, and SSO/federation, all oriented around a cloud-first, Zero Trust architecture. It suits a technically deep leader with extensive experience building and scaling global IAM teams in regulated environments.
Principal level · 12+ years · Remote · Bachelor's required · Full-time
Advertised as Senior, but the requirements read as Principal.
“or” means any one of them counts — you don't need all of them.
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How this req sits in the market our data
Roughly 10 people in GA plausibly meet what this posting asks for (computer and information systems managers). range 4–25
Applicant volume Light — Few people clear these requirements, so an application that does clear them gets looked at. Worth applying to even if you miss a nice-to-have.
Rare in this occupation — lead with these, and say what you built with them.
Most people in this occupation already list these. Still required — just not what gets you shortlisted.
What the occupation pays Median $172,175 (middle half $134,525–$214,332). This posting is about at that midpoint.
Estimated from BLS employment for this occupation and area, per-skill prevalence across our listing corpus, and published wage benchmarks — as of Jul 28, 2026. It is a model, not a headcount.
Why we read it this way (8)
The title 'Senior Director' maps to a people-management role with explicit global team ownership, hiring, and org-wide scope — classified as a Computer and Information Systems Managers role. 15-1212 (Information Security Analysts) is noted as a runner-up given the heavy IAM/security strategy content, but the primary day-to-day work is leading and building engineering organizations.
The level advertised in the title is set to 'Senior' because the title reads 'Senior Director'; the actual scope (org-wide IAM strategy, global teams, executive stakeholder alignment, 12+ years required with 5+ in senior leadership) supports a Principal-level classification.
The JD lists 'Bachelor's or Master's degree' as required; Bachelor's is treated as the minimum hard gate.
The IAM platforms requirement lists SailPoint, Saviynt, Okta, and Ping as examples ('etc.') — these are captured as alternatives under a single 'IAM platforms' skill since the JD treats them interchangeably. Similarly, CyberArk and BeyondTrust are alternatives under 'PAM solutions'.
Java, Python, and .NET are listed together as interchangeable options for the software engineering background requirement; Java is used as the primary with the others as alternatives.
SAML, OAuth, and OIDC are listed together as SSO/federation protocols — emitted as separate skills since they are distinct, complementary standards rather than interchangeable substitutes.
Azure is listed under Preferred Qualifications ('Azure preferred') and is therefore marked as preferred. SRE practices and industry certifications (CISSP, CISM) also appear only under Preferred Qualifications.
No specific work location city is stated in the posting; UKG's headquarters is in Weston, FL, used as the best-available metro. The role may be hybrid or have flexibility given UKG's stated flexibility policy, but the posting does not explicitly state fully remote.
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