Description
The Identity & Access Assurance (IAA) organization at Ford is seeking an Access Governance Platform Delivery Lead to support platform ownership, execution, onboarding coordination, and operational readiness across strategic Identity and Access Management (IAM) modernization initiatives.
The successful candidate will help drive execution discipline, delivery transparency, backlog quality, onboarding readiness, and stakeholder alignment across complex workstreams involving identity governance, entitlement management, access assurance, automation, and platform modernization.
Key responsibilities include:
- Supporting platform ownership and roadmap execution across Identity & Access Assurance initiatives and workstreams.
- Translating platform priorities into delivery plans, milestones, epics, stories, tasks, dependencies, and measurable outcomes.
- Maintaining delivery plans, execution dashboards, RAID logs, dependency trackers, operational reports, and roadmap views.
- Tracking delivery commitments, blockers, risks, decisions, and cross-team dependencies across engineering, operations, governance, security, and onboarding stakeholders.
The ideal candidate will have a strong background in technical program delivery, technical project coordination, Agile execution, platform operations, or enterprise technology initiatives, with experience working closely with technical engineering teams within cloud, security, infrastructure, identity, or enterprise platform environments.
Additional qualifications include:
- A bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, Cybersecurity, Engineering, Business Technology, or a related field, or a combination of education and experience.
- 5+ years of experience supporting technical program delivery, technical project coordination, Agile execution, platform operations, or enterprise technology initiatives.
- Strong organizational skills with demonstrated ability to manage multiple priorities, dependencies, workstreams, and delivery commitments simultaneously.
- Experience facilitating Agile/Scrum ceremonies and supporting backlog management processes.
- Strong written, verbal, and interpersonal communication skills with the ability to engage both technical and non-technical stakeholders.
Preferred qualifications include experience supporting enterprise Identity & Access Management (IAM), identity governance, access assurance, privileged access, or security platform initiatives, familiarity with Microsoft Entra ID, entitlement management, access governance, authentication and authorization concepts, or enterprise security controls.