Senior IAM: Identity & Access Governance Lead

Showcify, Inc.; Abu Dhabi; On-site; AED 420,000 - 600,000; Full time

Job summary

Inception42, a G42 company in the UAE, is seeking a senior IAM leader to own identity governance, RBAC design, and access control across infrastructure and cloud workloads. You will drive policy, lifecycle management, and federation, coordinating with auditors, HR, and engineering teams.

You will define metrics, mature the IAM program, and mentor engineers while aligning with ISO 27001, NIST CSF and UAE requirements. This role influences security across AI-focused deployments.

Qualifications

• Hands-on expertise across enterprise IAM spanning identity governance, SSO, MFA, and privileged access management.
• Experience designing enterprise RBAC models and enforcing segregation of duties.
• Strong Microsoft Entra ID capabilities, including Conditional Access and Privileged Identity Management.
• Experience with an enterprise IGA platform such as SailPoint or Saviynt; lifecycle automation.
• Security governance and audit readiness aligned with ISO 27001 / NIST; ability to work with auditors.

Responsibilities

• Own the identity and access management strategy and roadmap, covering joiner-mover-leaver lifecycle, authentication, authorisation, privileged access and federation.
• Design and maintain the organisation's role-based access control model, including role definitions, entitlement structures and segregation of duties, and keep it workable as the business changes.
• Own access governance, including periodic access reviews and certification, entitlement recertification, and evidence that least privilege is applied in practice rather than in policy.
• Set the standards and patterns for privileged access management across infrastructure, applications and endpoints, including endpoint privilege management and the removal of standing local administrator rights, so that elevation is controlled, time-bound and auditable.
• Automate identity lifecycle and access provisioning to reduce manual effort and the errors that come with it.
• Own the security governance framework for the domain, including policies, standards and control definitions mapped to ISO 27001, NIST CSF and applicable UAE requirements.
• Lead assurance activity across control testing, internal and external audit, and customer security due diligence, and drive findings through to closure.
• Provide security review and design authority for new systems, cloud workloads and acquisitions, with particular attention to how identity and access are handled.
• Define and report identity and access metrics, including privileged account inventory, standing administrator rights, orphaned and dormant accounts, review completion, provisioning performance and exceptions.
• Mentor engineers and analysts, and raise the standard of identity practice across the wider technology function.

Skills

Identity governance

RBAC design

IAM strategy & roadmaps

SAML/OAuth/OIDC

Microsoft Entra ID

Privileged access management

Security governance

Audits & compliance

Education

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or related field

CISSP / CISM / equivalent certification

Tools

SailPoint

Saviynt

CyberArk

BeyondTrust

Microsoft Intune EPM

Job description

Inception42, a G42 company in the UAE, is seeking a senior IAM leader to own identity governance, RBAC design, and access control across infrastructure and cloud workloads. You will drive policy, lifecycle management, and federation, coordinating with auditors, HR, and engineering teams.

You will define metrics, mature the IAM program, and mentor engineers while aligning with ISO 27001, NIST CSF and UAE requirements. This role influences security across AI-focused deployments.