Professional, Senior Identity Governance & Administration (IGA) Engineer
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Skills & Keywords
Required Skills
Identity Governance Identity & Access Management One Identity Manager SailPoint Microsoft Entra ID
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ServiceNow PowerShell Python SQL
Job Description
Role & responsibilities
Professional, Senior Identity Governance & Administration (IGA) Engineer
Experience: 5+ Years
Employment Type: Full-time
How you'll make an impact
The Professional, Senior Identity Governance & Administration (IGA) Engineer serves as a seasoned individual contributor within the Cybersecurity organization, responsible for designing, implementing, configuring, and supporting Identity Governance and Administration solutions that enable secure and compliant access across applications, platforms, infrastructure, and cloud environments. Working with general direction, the incumbent applies advanced knowledge of identity lifecycle management, access governance, entitlement management, and certification processes to strengthen the organization's identity security posture. Core accountabilities include IGA platform administration, application and identity source onboarding, identity lifecycle automation, workflow engineering, connector configuration, and system integrations. The role partners closely with cybersecurity, infrastructure, application, and business teams to deliver scalable, automated, and compliant identity governance services in a highly regulated environment.
What you'll bring
- Configure, administer, implement, and support IGA platforms such as One Identity Manager, SailPoint, Saviynt, Microsoft Entra ID, or similar solutions, including integrations across enterprise environments.
- Design and administer identity lifecycle processes including provisioning, deprovisioning, access modifications, role management, access requests, and access certifications.
- Onboard applications, platforms, and identity sources into IGA solutions, including Active Directory, Entra ID, Windows, Unix/Linux, cloud, SaaS, and custom applications.
- Configure and maintain provisioning, reconciliation, governance, and certification connectors, along with identity repositories, user groups, roles, and security policies.
- Develop and support integrations using APIs, SCIM, LDAP, Active Directory, Entra ID, and web services.
- Design and automate access request, approval, provisioning, and fulfilment workflows, including ITSM integrations such as ServiceNow, to improve operational efficiency, user experience, and security posture.
- Support reconciliation, identity correlation, entitlement discovery, and identity data quality processes.
- Implement and maintain role-based access control (RBAC), entitlement governance, least privilege principles, and periodic access review processes.
- Monitor access controls and entitlements to identify risks, policy violations, and segregation of duties conflicts.
- Support audits, compliance reviews, certification campaigns, operational reporting, and remediation activities related to identity and access controls.
- Troubleshoot and resolve complex IGA platform, provisioning, workflow, and integration issues.
- Develop technical documentation, implementation plans, operating procedures, and architecture diagrams.
- Evaluate emerging IGA technologies, industry practices, and security frameworks and recommend improvements.
- Participate in projects that advance enterprise identity governance strategy, security architecture, and operational excellence.
- Provide technical guidance and mentoring to less experienced team members.
Qualifications
Education
- Required: Bachelor's degree in Information Technology, Computer Science, Cybersecurity, Engineering, or related field; or equivalent experience.
- Preferred: Relevant advanced coursework or certifications in cybersecurity or Identity Governance & Administration
Experience and Skills
- 4+ years of experience in Identity Governance & Administration (IGA), Identity & Access Management (IAM), or Identity Security Engineering.
- Hands-on experience with One Identity Manager, SailPoint, Saviynt, Microsoft Entra ID, Okta, or similar IAM/IGA platforms.
- Strong understanding of identity lifecycle management (Joiner/Mover/Leaver), provisioning and deprovisioning, access request and approval workflows, role-based access control (RBAC), access governance concepts, and identity certifications and reviews.
- Experience with identity protocols including SAML, OAuth 2.0, OpenID Connect (OIDC), SCIM, and JWT.
- Experience integrating IAM/IGA solutions using APIs and enterprise connectors.
- Experience onboarding applications and configuring provisioning and reconciliation workflows.
- Understanding of security controls, compliance requirements, and audit processes.
- Strong analytical, troubleshooting, and problem-solving skills.
- Strong written and verbal communication and stakeholder management skills with the ability to present technical concepts to diverse audiences.
- Ability to work effectively across cross-functional teams and manage multiple priorities.
Preferred
- Experience with ServiceNow or other ITSM integrations.
- Experience with PowerShell, Python, APIs, SQL, or workflow automation tools.
- Exposure to cloud identity, non-human identities, and workload identity concepts.
- Familiarity with SOX, GDPR, ISO 27001, NIST, or similar compliance frameworks.
Other
- Travel: Up to 10% as required by business needs.
- Certifications: Relevant cybersecurity or IAM certifications preferred (e.g., SailPoint, Saviynt, Microsoft Identity & Access Administrator, Okta Certified Professional/Administrator, Security+, CISA, CISSP, or CRISC).