IAM Program Manager

Job Title: IAM Program Manager

Location: US Dallas, TX / Iselin, NJ

Relevant Experience Years

12 15+ years of program management experience
Proven experience leading large-scale IAM or security advisory programs
Experience managing parallel workstreams across multiple teams

Tools

MS Project, Jira, Azure DevOps
PowerPoint, Excel, Power BI
Governance and reporting tools
Skills

Strong client management and executive communication
Excellent presentation and program reporting
Strong problemsolving and dependency management
Highly collaborative leadership style
Governance, planning, and delivery oversight expertise
Responsibilities

Provide overall program leadership and governance across multiple IAM workstreams.
Own endtoend program planning, including scope alignment, milestones, dependencies, and delivery cadence.
Ensure all IAM initiatives are executed in line with approved SOW, inscope / outofscope boundaries, and regulatory expectations.
Oversee and coordinate multiple IAM Project Managers and workstreams.
Establish and manage programlevel governance forums, steering committees, and stakeholder reviews.
Track and manage programlevel risks, issues, dependencies, and interworkstream impacts.
Ensure consistent execution of officehoursbased, consultative engagement models across IAM initiatives.
Provide administrative and strategic oversight to IAM teams on cleanup, segregation, migration, and remediation progress.
Review and validate that IAM guidance and outcomes align with enterprise IAM architecture, security policies, and compliance standards.
Serve as the primary clientfacing leadership contact for IAM program delivery.
Deliver executivelevel reporting, dashboards, and presentations covering progress, risks, and outcomes.
Drive alignment between IAM Architects, SMEs, Project Managers, and client stakeholders.
Support prioritization and sequencing decisions across IAM workstreams.
Ensure lessons learned, best practices, and metrics are captured and reused across the program.
Mentor and guide IAM Project Managers and delivery leads.
Escalate critical risks or scope conflicts to executive sponsors as required.
Maintain strong collaboration with security, compliance, audit, application, and platform teams.
Ensure the program remains advisory and governancefocused, without assuming handson execution or change implementation ownership.