Manager Identity & Trust Engineering

About the role

The Identity & Trust Engineering team is seeking an experienced Manager, Identity & Trust Engineering to lead the strategy, engineering, and operational maturity of the enterprise platforms that protect identities, privileged access, certificates, secrets, and digital trust across BlueCross BlueShield of Tennessee.

In this highly visible leadership role, you'll guide the evolution of modern identity and security capabilities including authentication, access management, privileged access management (PAM), secrets management, public key infrastructure (PKI), certificate lifecycle management, and application protection.

You'll lead a team of engineers and security specialists, partner closely with Information Security, Architecture, Infrastructure, and Application Delivery teams, and drive automation, platform modernization, operational excellence, and technology lifecycle management. This role offers a unique opportunity to influence enterprise security strategy while enabling secure, scalable solutions that support business growth and digital transformation.

Ideal candidates will bring

• Expertise in enterprise identity, authentication, privileged access, PKI, secrets management, and digital trust capabilities.
• Demonstrated experience leading engineering teams responsible for security platforms, operational excellence, modernization, and technology roadmaps.
• Proven ability to partner with business and technology leaders to deliver secure, scalable solutions that reduce risk and enable business outcomes.
• Experience driving automation, process improvement, and capability maturity within complex enterprise environments.
• Strong communication skills with the ability to translate complex security concepts into clear business value for executives and stakeholders.

Note

• While this is a fully remote role, final interviews onsite at our Chattanooga, TN headquarters will be req uired.
• Sponsorship is not available for this role.

Job Duties & Responsibilities

• Oversee design, implementation, configuration, maintenance, and troubleshooting of multiple security technologies
• Develop, maintain and communicate policies, standards and procedures to manage security functions relative to information technology systems (including systems under development), networks, applications, and voice and data communications that are consistent with applicable regulatory and compliance requirements.
• Develop and report business-relevant metrics to measure the efficiency and effectiveness of the Information Security Program, facilitate appropriate resource allocation and increase the maturity of the security program.
• Provide subject matter expertise on a broad range of information security standards and best practices, such as NIST, PCI, ISO 27001, MAR and others as applicable.
• Work with Information Security Directors, CISO and appropriate stakeholders to prepare and present relevant information on security status as required.

Job Qualifications

Education

• Bachelor's degree in a relevant field or equivalent years of experience is required. Equivalent years of experience are determined as one year of technical experience for every year of college requested.

Experience

• 5 years - Experience leading teams of technical resources in diverse disciplines is required.
• 5 years - Experience in information security or related field is required.
• 3 years- Experience in Security Engineering or in a related field required.

Skills/Certifications

• Information Security certifications such as the Certified Information Systems Security Professional Certification (CISSP) or Certified Information Security Manager Certification (CISM) is required or must be obtained within 2 years of acceptance of position.
• Proficient in Microsoft Office (Outlook, Word, Excel and PowerPoint)
• Excellent oral and written communication skills.
• Strong interpersonal and organizational skills
• Must be a team player, be organized and have the ability to handle multiple projects
• Ability to work independently with minimal supervision or function in a team environment sharing responsibility, roles, and accountability
• Number of Openings Available
• 1
• Worker Type: Employee