Manager, Customer Identity & Access Management (CIAM)

The core parts of your role would be to:

CIAM Strategy & Roadmap Ownership

• Define and maintain the CIAM strategy and multi-year roadmap aligned with business growth, digital transformation, and enterprise security objectives.
• Continuously assess business priorities, customer experience needs, regulatory drivers, and industry trends to shape CIAM capability evolution.
• Regularly re-prioritize CIAM initiatives based on changing business needs, risk posture, and market developments.
• Act as a trusted advisor to IAM leadership and senior stakeholders on CIAM investments, trade-offs, and sequencing.
• Establish and evolve measurable outcomes for the CIAM roadmap

Business & Stakeholder Engagement

• Partner with business, product, and digital teams to understand customer journeys, growth objectives, and pain points
• Translate business requirements into clear CIAM capability requirements, outcomes, and success measures.
• Facilitate alignment between business expectations and security, privacy, and technology constraints.
• Communicate CIAM strategy, direction, and decisions clearly to both technical and non-technical stakeholders.
• Drive alignment with architecture and wider cyber security stakeholders on platform-level patterns, risk trade-offs, and decision points.
• Establish clear engagement paths and working rhythms with product teams to inform CIAM roadmap, onboarding sequencing, and platform adoption.

Governance, Risk & Standards

• Define, maintain and drive CIAM governance frameworks, standards, and guardrails covering customer authentication, authorization, identity lifecycle, and consent.
• Define and maintain platform release and feature enablement governance.
• Ensure CIAM solutions align with security, privacy, and regulatory requirements through strong design governance and oversight.
• Support audits, risk assessments, and regulatory engagements by providing CIAM domain expertise and direction.
• Establish and operate clear decision-making forums and processes for CIAM-related priorities and changes.

Platform & Vendor Strategy

• Own the strategic direction for CIAM platforms and tooling, including roadmap planning and capability evolution.
• Leverage experience with Auth0, Okta, and similar customer authentication platforms to guide platform usage and optimization.
• Assess new and emerging customer authentication and CIAM tools, patterns, and services, recommending adoption where appropriate.
• Partner with vendors and internal teams to ensure platforms are used effectively and aligned to long-term strategy.

Architecture & Technical Oversight (Lightweight)

• Provide high-level architectural guidance and design oversight for CIAM implementations.
• Provide platform-level technical leadership for CIAM, with the ability to understand implementations at engineering depth without performing hands-on coding.
• Evaluate and recommend technical approaches across authentication, authorization, session/token models, tenant separation, federation, and M2M patterns.
• Estimate and size CIAM technical work (effort, complexity, sequencing, and delivery risk) to support roadmap planning and prioritization.
• Review solution designs to ensure alignment with CIAM standards, security expectations, and strategic direction.
• Review solution designs to ensure alignment with CIAM standards, security expectations, and approved platform patterns; challenge designs where needed.
• Act as an escalation point for complex design decisions, highlighting potential risks without owning detailed engineering implementation.

Delivery Alignment & Operational Oversight (Limited)

• Provide strategic oversight for CIAM initiatives to ensure outcomes align with roadmap, priorities, and governance expectations.
• Support prioritization decisions across initiatives when capacity or dependencies shift.
• Partner with operations teams to ensure CIAM services meet agreed availability and reliability expectations, without owning day-to-day operations.

Let's Talk About You!

Education

• Bachelor’s degree in computer science, Information Technology, Engineering, or a related field.
• Master’s degree (MBA, MSc, or equivalent) is an asset.

Experience

• 7-8+ years of experience in IAM or security domains, with a strong focus (3+ years) in Customer IAM (CIAM).
• Demonstrated experience leading CIAM strategy, governance, or platform direction in a customer-facing environment.
• Proven ability to work closely with business and product stakeholders to deliver identity capabilities aligned to business outcomes.

CIAM & Platform Expertise

• Strong working knowledge of CIAM concepts including customer authentication, federation, authorization, identity lifecycle, and consent.
• Hands-on experience with Auth0 and Okta, and the ability to quickly assess and adopt new customer authentication tools and services.
• Solid understanding of industry standards and protocols (e.g., OAuth 2.0, OpenID Connect, SAML).
• Strong ability to reason CIAM solutions at engineering depth (configuration, integration patterns etc.)
• Proven capability to estimate technical effort and delivery complexity for IAM initiatives,
• Experience making and defending technical trade-off decisions in collaboration with architects, engineers, and vendors.

Strategic & Analytical Skills

• Proven ability to assess industry trends, emerging threats, and technology shifts to inform CIAM strategy.
• Strong prioritization and decision-making skills in dynamic environments.
• Ability to balance customer experience, security, regulatory requirements, and delivery constraints.

Communication & Influence

• Excellent written and verbal communication skills.
• Ability to clearly articulate CIAM strategy, risks, and trade-offs to senior business and technology leaders.
• Proven ability to influence outcomes across cross-functional teams without direct authority.

Certifications (Asset)

• Relevant certifications such as CISSP, CISM, CCSP, or CIAM / vendor-specific certifications.

What we offer [For full-time permanent roles] Competitive discretionary bonus Market leading RRSP match program Medical, dental, vision, life, and disability benefits Employee Share Purchase Plan 🏽 Maternity/Parental top-up while you care for your little one Generous vacation policy and personal days Virtual events to connect with your fellow colleagues Professional development and comprehensive Career Development program A fulfilling opportunity to join one of the top FinTechs and help create a new kind of banking experience The incumbent will be working hybrid and in office time will be spent working from EQ Bank’s additional office space located at 2200-25 Ontario Street, Toronto, ON.

Equity, Diversity & Inclusion

EQ is committed to building an inclusive, accessible environment where every employee feels valued, respected, and supported. We believe our organization is stronger — and our people thrive — when we honour and celebrate diverse experiences, identities, and perspectives. We’re equally committed to supporting your growth, both professionally and personally.

We provide a barrier‑free recruitment process and work environment. If you require accommodations at any stage, we will work with you to ensure you can bring your best self to the process and beyond.

As part of our recruitment process, EQ uses AI to help screen, assess, and/or select applicants for this position. All AI-enabled outputs are reviewed and validated by our talent team. All candidates considered for hire must successfully complete a criminal background check and credit check. While we appreciate every application, an EQ recruiter will contact only those whose skills and experience most closely match the requirements of the role.


EQB Inc. (TSX: EQB) is the parent company of Equitable Bank, the country's seventh-largest Schedule I bank by assets, which operates EQ Bank, Canada's Challenger Bank. EQB Inc. serves nearly 4 million Canadians and manages approximately $150 billion in combined assets under management and administration.

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