Virginia Tech
Senior Director of Secure Identity Services
CISSP
GIAC
Edtech.com's Summary
Virginia Tech is hiring a Senior Director of Secure Identity Services to lead the university's enterprise identity and access management ecosystem. The role involves providing strategic leadership, operational oversight, and executive guidance to ensure secure and privacy-focused access to university systems, data, and digital services.
Highlights
- Oversee the university's enterprise identity and access management (IAM) including authentication services, access controls, and identity governance.
- Provide strategic leadership and operational oversight reporting to the Associate Vice President for IT Security and Identity and CISO.
- Ensure IAM services support institutional growth, security, privacy, reliability, and usability.
- Master's degree or equivalent experience required.
- Experienced in information privacy, security practices, federated trust models, multifactor authentication, and middleware within higher education.
- Proven mid- to senior-level IT leadership with enterprise-level service responsibility.
- Preferred qualifications include CISSP or SANS GIAC certification, knowledge of SAML, CAS, LDAP, DevOps, cloud technologies, and experience with national initiatives like InCommon or TIER.
- Strong communication and collaboration skills with senior leadership.
- Regular full-time position with salary commensurate with experience.
- Criminal conviction check required; sponsorship is not available.
Senior Director of Secure Identity Services Full Description
Job Description
The Division of Information Technology at Virginia Tech seeks an experienced, talented, and driven leader to serve as Senior Director of Secure Identity Services (SIS). Secure Identity Services is responsible for the university’s enterprise identity and access management (IAM) ecosystem, including authentication services, access controls, identity governance, and related middleware that enable secure access to university systems, data, and services.
Reporting to the Associate Vice President for IT Security and Identity and Chief Information Security Officer (CISO), the Senior Director provides strategic leadership, direction, and operational oversight for the university’s identity and access management capabilities. This role is critical as Virginia Tech continues to grow in scale and complexity, expands partnerships across Virginia and globally, and increases its reliance on secure, privacy-preserving access to digital services and data. The Senior Director ensures that identity services advance institutional goals while maintaining strong security, privacy, reliability, and usability.
Reporting to the Associate Vice President for IT Security and Identity and Chief Information Security Officer (CISO), the Senior Director provides strategic leadership, direction, and operational oversight for the university’s identity and access management capabilities. This role is critical as Virginia Tech continues to grow in scale and complexity, expands partnerships across Virginia and globally, and increases its reliance on secure, privacy-preserving access to digital services and data. The Senior Director ensures that identity services advance institutional goals while maintaining strong security, privacy, reliability, and usability.
Required Qualifications
- Master's degree in a related field or equivalent education and work experience.
- Knowledge of and experience with information privacy and security practices, identity assurance, federated trust models, multifactor authentication, and middleware in higher education.
- Significant hands-on experience providing mid- to senior-level strategic leadership in information technology, including responsibility for enterprise-level services.
- Proven ability to exercise sound judgment and timely decision-making to accomplish organizational goals and respond to senior leadership, departments, and end users.
- Experience planning, analyzing, and evaluating programs, services, operational needs, and fiscal constraints.
- Demonstrated ability to lead and manage change.
- Excellent communication and presentation skills, including collaboration with senior leadership.
- Knowledge of and experience with information privacy and security practices, identity assurance, federated trust models, multifactor authentication, and middleware in higher education.
- Significant hands-on experience providing mid- to senior-level strategic leadership in information technology, including responsibility for enterprise-level services.
- Proven ability to exercise sound judgment and timely decision-making to accomplish organizational goals and respond to senior leadership, departments, and end users.
- Experience planning, analyzing, and evaluating programs, services, operational needs, and fiscal constraints.
- Demonstrated ability to lead and manage change.
- Excellent communication and presentation skills, including collaboration with senior leadership.
Preferred Qualifications
- Security certification such as CISSP or SANS GIAC.
- Applied experience in information technology disciplines such as systems or application administration, information security, identity management, or software development.
- Experience developing, administering, and managing budgets.
- Experience managing large-scale projects.
- Experience directing software development teams delivering secure enterprise solutions.
- Knowledge of SAML, CAS protocols, LDAP directories, web single sign-on, DevOps practices, and cloud technologies.
- Involvement in national or international initiatives such as InCommon and TIER.
- Applied experience in information technology disciplines such as systems or application administration, information security, identity management, or software development.
- Experience developing, administering, and managing budgets.
- Experience managing large-scale projects.
- Experience directing software development teams delivering secure enterprise solutions.
- Knowledge of SAML, CAS protocols, LDAP directories, web single sign-on, DevOps practices, and cloud technologies.
- Involvement in national or international initiatives such as InCommon and TIER.
Overtime Status
Exempt: Not eligible for overtime
Appointment Type
Regular
Salary Information
Salary commensurate with experience
Hours per week
40
Review Date
4/20/26
Additional Information
Sponsorship is not available for this position.
The successful candidate will be required to have a criminal conviction check.
About Virginia Tech
Dedicated to its motto, Ut Prosim (That I May Serve), Virginia Tech pushes the boundaries of knowledge by taking a hands-on, transdisciplinary approach to preparing scholars to be leaders and problem-solvers. A comprehensive land-grant institution that enhances the quality of life in Virginia and throughout the world, Virginia Tech is an inclusive community dedicated to knowledge, discovery, and creativity. The university offers more than 280 majors to a diverse enrollment of more than 36,000 undergraduate, graduate, and professional students in eight undergraduate colleges, a school of medicine, a veterinary medicine college, Graduate School, and Honors College. The university has a significant presence across Virginia, including Blacksburg, the greater Washington, D.C. area, the Health Sciences and Technology Campus in Roanoke, sites in Newport News and Richmond, and numerous Extension offices and research institutes. A leading global research institution, Virginia Tech conducts more than $650 million in research annually.
Virginia Tech endorses and encourages participation in professional development opportunities and university shared governance. These valuable contributions to university shared governance provide important representation and perspective, along with opportunities for unique and impactful professional development.
Virginia Tech does not discriminate against employees, students, or applicants on the basis of age, color, disability, sex (including pregnancy), gender, gender identity, gender expression, genetic information, ethnicity or national origin, political affiliation, race, religion, sexual orientation, or military status, or otherwise discriminate against employees or applicants who inquire about, discuss, or disclose their compensation or the compensation of other employees or applicants, or on any other basis protected by law.
If you are an individual with a disability and desire an accommodation, please contact IT Human Resources at ithr@vt.edu during regular business hours at least 10 business days prior to the event.
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