Principal IAM Engineer
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1st Shift (United States of America)Please review the following job description:
The Principal IAM Engineer will define strategy, architecture, and delivery of enterprise-wide IAM solutions, ensuring security, scalability, and compliance with industry standards. Serving as a subject matter expert, this role guides design, leads integration and automation, and collaborates with security, infrastructure, HR, and application teams.KEY RESPONSIBILITIES
Following is a summary of the essential functions for this job. Other duties may be performed, both major and minor, which are not mentioned below. Specific activities may change from time to time.
- Define and develop a modern IAM Access Governance framework supported by policies, standards, and controls to support audit and regulatory compliance (e.g., CFIUS, NYDFS, SOX, HIPAA, GDPR) and zero-trust based solutions.
- Support the design and own the implementation of the enterprise IAM architecture, aligning it with business needs, regulatory requirements, and industry best practices;
- Provide technical direction and leadership for cyber integration engagements, ensuring seamless integration of IAM solutions with existing systems and processes.
- Work across cross functional teams (e.g., Cyber, Technology Operations, Engineering and Architecture) to operationalize and scale framework to identify and assess IAM related risks and develop mitigation strategies to reduce vulnerabilities while setting clear service level expectations and measure performance against them.
- Lead roadmap development for IAM technologies including single sign-on, multi-factor authentication, privileged access management, and identity governance and administration (IGA) and integration with key enterprise systems.
- Operationalize a program for managing cloud-based identities and access controls; modernize integration with identity management tools, HR system of record, and internal systems and applications to streamline and automate provisioning across cloud and on premises environments.
- Define, develop and implement a modern IAM framework of Just-in-Time (JIT) and role-based access control (RBAC) models.
- Develop and implement strategies, policies and controls to reduce privileged access and streamline the management of privileged entitlements, including hardening of PAM policies to ensure robust controls for critical applications supporting a least privilege model.
- Partner with leadership to define and develop IAM metrics, KPIs, and service-level objectives (SLOs); utilize user data analytics to identify process re-engineering, automation opportunities, and data-driven risk remediation.
- Define operations and administration optimization and IAM related self-service programs that provide customers with an efficient and effective workflow.
- Partner with Security Operations and Threat Intelligence teams to implement access compromise detections as part of a holistic IAM observability and detections program.
- Develop strong relationships with business colleagues to fully understand and deliver solutions to meet their business needs, while using diplomacy and relationships to advance our risk management program.
EDUCATION AND EXPERIENCE
The requirements listed below are representative of the knowledge, skill and/or ability required. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.
- Minimum 10 years’ experience in a technical service-related field with a minimum of 7+ years’ proven work experience as a IAM technical lead is required.
- 5-7 years of directly related experience including working with enterprise IAM products, commercial IAM products for a sizable enterprise (preferably 15,000+ employees/identities), user provisioning, and developing solutions for Identity Management, PAM, Single Sign-On & Reduced Sign-On, and Cloud Access Management.
CERTIFICATIONS, LICENSES, REGISTRATIONS
- IAM or Security certifications: CISSP, CCSP, CCSP, Saviynt Certified Professional, or Microsoft Certificatio
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