Why USAA?
At USAA, our mission is to empower our members to achieve financial security through highly competitive products, exceptional service and trusted advice. We seek to be the #1 choice for the military community and their families.
Embrace a fulfilling career at USAA, where our core values – honesty, integrity, loyalty and service – define how we treat each other and our members. Be part of what truly makes us special and impactful.
We are proud to support active-duty military spouses. USAA roles may offer remote or hybrid flexibility for active-duty military spouses consistent with applicable policy and business needs.
The Opportunity
As a dedicated Director, Active Directory Engineering, you will lead the engineering organization responsible for the critical directory platforms, infrastructure, and services that enable USAA's Workforce Identity and Access Management capabilities. You will be accountable for the strategy, architecture, engineering, modernization, resiliency, and lifecycle of Active Directory and related enterprise directory services, ensuring these foundational identity capabilities remain secure, highly available, scalable, and positioned to support USAA's evolving identity and technology needs.
We offer a flexible work environment that requires an individual to be in the office 4 days per week. This position can be based in one of the following locations: San Antonio, TX, or Plano, TX. Relocation assistance is available for this position.
What you'll do:
Lead the Active Directory Engineering organization and establish the engineering strategy and multi-year technology roadmap for Active Directory and related enterprise directory infrastructure, integrations, and services that provide foundational identity capabilities across USAA.
Ensure the security, reliability, resiliency, availability, scalability, and recoverability of enterprise directory services by establishing engineering standards, platform health metrics, capacity planning, lifecycle management, disaster recovery, and operational readiness expectations for this critical identity infrastructure.
Partner across Workforce IAM, Cybersecurity, Infrastructure, Cloud, and application engineering teams to translate identity and authentication requirements into scalable engineering capabilities, strengthening directory security, identity integration, and access controls.
Lead the modernization and evolution of enterprise directory services, including hybrid identity architecture, Active Directory security hardening, automation, legacy dependency reduction, cloud integration, and the transition toward modern identity patterns that reduce reliance on legacy authentication and strengthen USAA's identity security posture.
Responsible for strategic ownership of critical security domains or capabilities, develops multi-year roadmaps and/or a leader of Manager Seniors.
Establishes and ensures compliant execution of their information security domain's short- and long-term strategic vision, strategy, goals, and metrics and governs the overall policies, standards, and procedures for their assigned information security domain.
Directs and ensures effective operation of an enterprise information security domain including capacity, resilience and dependability capabilities and how changes in conditions, operations, or the environment will affect the system's operation.
Develops, reviews and communicates information security risk management policies and procedures in partnership with the Chief Information Security Officer (CISO) and other senior leaders to ensure appropriateness and adequacy versus industry best practices and regulatory requirements.
Interfaces with external regulators to represent USAA in discussions regarding their specific information security domain.
Oversees the continuous monitoring of cybersecurity activities and alerts senior management to potential risks, compliance issues, and operational inefficiencies.
Develops, designs, and delivers…