{"id":953826,"url":"https://alion.io/job/erste-digital-head-of-identity-security-all-humans","title":"Head of Identity Security (all humans)","company":{"id":673194,"name":"Erste Digital","domain":"erstedigital.com","url":"https://alion.io/company/erstedigital","size_band":"5000+","is_staffing_agency":false,"employer_type":"direct","is_intermediary":false,"listed_via":null,"ats_vendor":"Recruitee","truth_index":null},"role":"Leadership","role_family":"Leadership","seniority":"head","employment_type":null,"work_mode":"on_site","remote_scope":null,"remote_scope_basis":null,"remote_working_hours":null,"hiring_geo_confidence":"structured","locations":["Vienna, Austria"],"countries":["AT"],"hiring_countries":[],"hiring_countries_total":0,"salary":{"min":85000,"max":90000,"currency":"EUR","period":"year","gross":null,"usd_annual":103316},"salary_estimate":null,"experience_years_min":null,"visa_sponsorship":false,"relocation_package":false,"has_equity":false,"technologies":[{"name":"IAM","optional":false}],"status":"live","first_seen_at":"2026-09-15T10:41:31Z","employer_posted_date":"2026-09-15","last_verified_at":"2026-09-25T17:28:39Z","board_verified":true,"closed_at":null,"days_open":10,"trust":{"level":"ok","repost_count":null,"flags":[],"days_open":10},"description":"Make a difference in the financial life of millions of people: At Erste Digital you are co-creating the digital future, in which better financial health is possible. #believeinyourself\nWe are part of Erste Group - the largest banking group in Central and Eastern Europe with more than 2,500 branches and over 45,000 employees. Our more than 2,000 IT experts and enthusiasts are the bank's Digital Muscle.\nHelp shape the next generation of Cyber & Information Security at Erste Digital\nWe are evolving our security organization around clear missions, accountable services and stronger collaboration across domains. As Head of Department, you will shape the capability together with your teams and peers rather than inherit a fixed organizational blueprint. You will be accountable for outcomes, people leadership, service maturity and cross-Group value.\nYour Mission\nBuild and evolve trusted, reusable identity and access capabilities that allow people, applications and machines to authenticate, receive appropriate access and consume services securely across Erste Digital and the Group.\nWhat you will shape and be accountable for\nEvolve Identity Security from individual IAM solutions into a coherent, reusable identity platform and service ecosystem.\n\nSet direction across identity lifecycle, entitlement and role management, access governance, authentication, authorization, federation and identity data.\n\nCreate identity services that are easy to consume by application and platform teams through standardized APIs, connectors, patterns and self-service capabilities.\n\nEstablish scalable approaches for roles, entitlements and authorization that reduce application-specific access logic and enable consistent policy enforcement.\n\nImprove automation, data quality and transparency across identity lifecycle and access-certification processes.\n\nPrepare the identity capability for non-human identities, workloads, automation and AI-enabled services without creating parallel or fragmented control models.\n\nGuide the transition from fragmented or solution-specific capabilities towards a coherent service-oriented target architecture while maintaining dependable day-to-day operations.\n\nGroup first - Built to scale beyond one entity\nThink Group First: design identity capabilities for Group consumption wherever a shared service is realistic and creates value.\n\nWhere central consumption is not feasible, provide reusable reference architectures, APIs, standards, blueprints and implementation patterns so entities can apply the same principles consistently.\n\nAlign with Group Security, Holding and relevant entities before creating local-only solutions where common patterns or shared capabilities are possible.\n\nTreat interoperability and portability as design requirements: a strong solution should not only work locally, but help simplify identity across the Group.\n\nWhat success looks like\nIdentity and entitlement data is trustworthy enough to support automated, context-aware access decisions.\n\nAuthentication, authorization and federation are provided through consistent capabilities with strong security and low user friction.\n\nRole and entitlement models are understandable, scalable and increasingly reusable instead of being recreated application by application.\n\nDevelopers and application teams can consume identity services through clear patterns, APIs and connectors instead of building their own security mechanisms.\n\nOrphaned, excessive and outdated access rights are reduced through reliable lifecycle and review processes.\n\nOther Group entities can consume the capability directly or reuse its patterns, standards and blueprints.\n\nWho benefits from your work\nEmployees, developers, solution managers, application owners, IAM owners, platform teams, HR/IT processes, auditors, Holding functions and Group entities benefit from simpler access, stronger authentication and authorization, more reliable identity information and reusable identity services.\nRequirements\nWhat you bring\nLeadership experience in identity, security, enterprise platforms or another complex technology domain.\n\nGood understanding of identity lifecycle, access governance, role and entitlement models, authentication, authorization and federation concepts.\n\nAbility to think in platforms and services: moving from individual solutions towards reusable capabilities with clear consumers and measurable outcomes.\n\nAbility to simplify complex dependencies and establish clear ownership across processes, technology and stakeholders.\n\nComfort working across highly interconnected domains where collaboration matters as much as technical excellence.\n\nAbility to navigate ambiguity, build alignment across organizational boundaries and turn strategic intent into concrete delivery.\n\nLeadership approach we value\nWe are looking for leaders who combine high standards with trust, candour and genuine interest in helping others succeed.\nServant leader: create clarity, remove obstacles and give people the space and trust to do their best work.\n\nHigh standards, genuine support: set clear expectations, follow through on commitments and help people reach them.\n\nHonest and elevating: give direct, respectful feedback, make achievements visible and create opportunities for others to grow and be recognized.\n\nExpert without micromanaging: bring enough subject-matter depth to ask the right questions, coach and exercise sound judgement, while trusting specialists to own the technical detail.\n\nDelivery oriented and willing to address difficult topics: turn concepts into measurable outcomes, exercise sound judgement when needed, address difficult topics early and question established approaches when they no longer serve the mission.\n\nClick here to learn more about our Leadership Dimensions.\nWhy this role\nYou will have the opportunity to shape one of the most foundational security capabilities in the organization: the trust layer used by employees, applications, platforms and increasingly machines.\n\nYou can influence how identity works across Erste Digital and the Group while creating an environment where strong specialists can take ownership, grow and deliver visible outcomes.\n\nEmployee benefits - Benefit from special conditions for financial services and insurances, supermarkets, clothing stores and many more.\n\nEmployee Referral Program - Become a talent scout for career opportunities in IT. We are rewarding every successful referral for Erste Digital\n\nA competitive and performance-related salary dependent on your professional and personal qualifications is granted - the minimum wage for this position in accordance with the respective collective agreement is EUR 85.000,-- gross per year. But this is just a formality, we are more than happy to discuss your actual expectations.\n\nWe look forward to learning more about you, your motivation, and what you would bring to the role in your cover letter.\nWe look forward to receiving your application by 16. October. First-round interviews are planned for early November.\nYou do not need to match every point perfectly to be a strong candidate. If the mission resonates with you and you believe you can grow into parts of the scope, we encourage you to apply.\n\nThe way we are\nErste Group considers the diversity of its employees as key to innovation and success. 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