Director, Identity & Access Management Architecture
- Location
- Fort Worth, TX
- Listed
- 9 days ago
In This Role, a Typical Day Will Include
- Collaborating with cybersecurity, infrastructure, cloud, business, risk, privacy, legal, and audit leaders to address complex identity and access management challenges across Alcon's global enterprise.
- Defining and advancing Alcon's IAM strategy, architecture, standards, and roadmap to support Zero Trust security, regulatory compliance, and digital transformation initiatives.
- Providing architectural leadership across workforce, customer, partner, privileged, cloud, and AI identities while ensuring secure, scalable, and compliant solutions.
- Influencing enterprise technology decisions through modern identity capabilities, including authentication, authorization, identity governance, privileged access management, and cloud access management.
- Supporting strategic initiatives such as cloud transformation, mergers and acquisitions, and third-party integrations by developing scalable identity solutions and governance frameworks.
- Serving as a trusted advisor to senior stakeholders, driving identity-related risk reduction, operational efficiency, regulatory compliance, and business enablement.
- Evaluating emerging identity threats, technologies, standards, and industry practices, and determining their relevance to Alcon’s enterprise strategy.
What You’ll Bring to Alcon
- Bachelor’s Degree or Equivalent years of directly related experience (or high school +18 yrs; Assoc.+14 yrs; M.S.+7 yrs; PhD+6 yrs)
- The ability to fluently read, write, understand and communicate in English
- •10 Years of Relevant Experience
- •6 Years of Demonstrated Leadership
Preferred Qualifications
- Experience developing and executing enterprise Identity & Access Management (IAM) strategies within large, complex, global organizations.
- Experience leading IAM architecture initiatives supporting mergers, acquisitions, divestitures, joint ventures, and complex third-party access models.
- Experience designing and supporting customer, consumer, machine, workload, decentralized, and AI-agent identity architectures.
- Experience collaborating with global systems integrators, strategic suppliers, and technology vendors, including participation in solution evaluation, selection, and implementation.
- Professional certifications such as CISSP, CCSP, TOGAF, SABSA, or other recognized IAM, cybersecurity, or enterprise architecture credentials.
- Advanced knowledge of modern IAM technologies and platforms, including identity governance, privileged access management, cloud identity, authentication, and access management solutions.
- Experience supporting Zero Trust security initiatives and identity-centric security programs.
- Experience operating within highly regulated industries and partnering with audit, compliance, privacy, and risk management functions.
How You Can Thrive at Alcon
- Join Alcon’s mission to provide top-tier, innovative products and solutions to enhance sight & enhance lives
- Grow your career and see your impact in a highly collaborative and diverse environment
- Alcon provides robust benefits package including health, life, retirement, flexible time off, and much more!
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About Alcon
At Alcon, we are driven by the meaningful work we do to help people see brilliantly. We innovate boldly, champion progress, and act with speed as the global leader in eye care. Here, you’ll be recognized for your commitment and contributions and see your career like never before. Together, we go above and beyond to make an impact in the lives of our patients and customers.
We foster an inclusive culture and are looking for diverse, talented people to join Alcon. As a Director, Identity & Access Management Architecture supporting Alcon's Information Technology function, you will be trusted to lead the enterprise IAM architecture strategy and advance secure, scalable identity solutions that enable workforce, customer, application, cloud, AI, and third-party ecosystems while reducing cyber risk and supporting business growth out of our office in Fort Worth, Texas.
Equal opportunity and legal notices
Alcon takes pride in maintaining an inclusive environment that values different perspectives and our policies are non-discriminatory in recruitment, hiring, training, promotion or other employment practices for reasons of race, color, religion, gender, national origin, age, sexual orientation, marital or veteran status, disability, or any other legally protected status.
Alcon is also committed to working with and providing reasonable accommodation to individuals with disabilities. If, because of a medical condition or disability, you need a reasonable accommodation for any part of the application process, or in order to perform the essential functions of a position, please send an email to and let us know the nature of your request and your contact information.
From Alcon's careers page, first listed on Rolev.ai on November 1, 2026. Rolev.ai is not the employer.
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