Cybersecurity - IDAM Manager (German Speaker)

About the role

PwC's Digital Identity team helps organizations build the identity foundations needed to secure access across employees, customers, applications, cloud platforms and non-human identities. As a Manager or Senior Manager in this advisory practice, you will lead complex IAM transformations, shape enterprise identity architectures and advise senior stakeholders on how identity supports security, cloud adoption and business transformation.

Key responsibilities

• Lead enterprise IAM transformations: define the approach, manage multidisciplinary delivery teams and own complex identity programs.
• Design target IAM architectures covering identity governance, authentication, privileged access, workforce identity and customer identity.
• Translate security, regulatory and technology requirements into practical architectures and multi-year roadmaps.
• Help clients move from fragmented or manual access models to automated lifecycle management, modern authentication and cloud-based identity.
• Advise on emerging challenges such as Zero Trust, passwordless authentication, non-human identities and workload identity.
• Review architecture and implementation decisions so solutions are scalable, secure and maintainable.
• Explain identity risks, architecture choices and investment priorities to CIOs, CISOs and other senior leaders.
• Develop junior colleagues, build trusted client relationships and ensure consistent quality across engagements.

Required profile

• Typically 8+ years of relevant experience in IAM, identity architecture, cybersecurity engineering, cloud security or large-scale technology transformation.
• Experience leading client engagements, developing sales proposals and supporting business development.
• Proven experience leading, coaching and technically guiding junior consultants, engineers and architects.
• Strong experience across identity domains such as IGA, Access Management, PAM, workforce or customer identity, plus knowledge of modern cloud and authentication architectures.