Cybersecurity Identity Management Senior Engineer

Penn Medicine; Philadelphia (Philadelphia County); On-site; USD 120,000 - 180,000; Full time

Job summary

Penn Medicine's IS Cybersecurity department seeks a Cybersecurity Identity Management Senior Engineer to advance identity governance and provisioning across the organization.

You will design architectures, gather requirements, mentor staff, and collaborate with vendors on IAM tooling such as SailPoint, IdentityNow, and Saviynt.

Based at 3535 Market Street in Philadelphia, this role emphasizes leadership, strong communication, and a hands-on approach to security engineering.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree is required.
• 7+ years of IT experience is required.
• 5+ years within cybersecurity is required.
• 2+ years of IAM cybersecurity experience is required.
• 1+ years of management/leadership experience is preferred.

Responsibilities

• Understand and translate business requirements to technical requirements and designs.
• Lead identity architectural patterns and solution design documents.
• Participate in IGA vendor selection processes and gather business input for requirements.
• Contribute to deployment plans and long-term operational model.
• Define metrics to measure and improve IDM capabilities.
• Provide coaching and mentorship to staff.
• Perform duties in line with Penn Medicine values.
• Other duties as assigned to support the unit and health system

Skills

Identity governance

Requirements gathering

Architectural design

Leadership

Communication

Time management

Federated identities

Education

Bachelor's degree

7+ years IT experience

5+ years cybersecurity

2+ years IAM cybersecurity

1+ years leadership

Tools

SailPoint IdentityIQ

IdentityNow

Saviynt

Job description

Description

Penn Medicine is dedicated to our tripartite mission of providing the highest level of care to patients, conducting innovative research, and educating future leaders in the field of medicine. Working for this leading academic medical center means collaboration with top clinical, technical and business professionals across all disciplines. Today at Penn Medicine, someone will make a breakthrough. Someone will heal a heart, deliver hopeful news, and give comfort and reassurance. Our employees shape our future each day. Are you living your life's work?

Entity: Corporate Services

Department: IS Cybersecurity

Location: 3535 Market Street, Philadelphia, PA

Summary

The Cybersecurity Identity Management Sr. Engineer reports to the Cybersecurity Identity Management Sr. Manager and contributes all engineering and operational aspects of role/entitlement management, identity lifecycle management, account management and provisioning capabilities at Penn Medicine. The senior role serves as a key contributor to Identity Management engineering and is expected to provide key input to the foundation, enhancement, and rollout of Penn Medicines IGA platform.

This role also contributes to the overall plan for and growth of the Identity Management as additional capabilities are released. Requires deep technical expertise in identity governance capabilities (implementation experience with IGA tools such as SailPoint IdentityIQ, IdentityNow, and Saviynt are a plus), building architecture and design documentation, leading requirements gather and testing phases, and knowledge of leading identity management practices and frameworks including federated identities, joiner mover leaver processes, and connector frameworks. Time management skills, including organization, coordination of duties and/or accomplishment of goals, excellent verbal and written communication skills, flexibility to learn and adapt to new technologies and processes is a must.

Responsibilities

• Understands and gathers business requirements, translates them to technical requirements and designs the solution to meet the tactical and strategic approaches.
• Leads the creation of identity architectural patterns and solution design documents.
• Working with the IGA manager by participating in IGA vendor selection processes, gathering input from the business to create requirements, participating as a lead in the development cycle with technical resources, contributing to deployment plans, and working with the team and the overall organization to create a long-term operational model.
• Participates in the definition of a tailored, differentiated set of Cybersecurity IDM services, a roadmap, and the development of underlying capabilities to enable them.
• Defines, develops, and implements meaningful metrics to measure and improve the efficacy of Cybersecurity IDM capabilities.
• Provides coaching and mentorship to nurture the development of staff in line with organization’s vision and values.
• Performs duties in accordance with Penn Medicine and entity values, policies, and procedures
• Other duties as assigned to support the unit, department, entity, and health system organization

Credentials

• CISSP is preferred.

Education or Equivalent Experience

• Bachelor's degree is required.
• 7+ years of IT experience is required.
• 5+ years within cybersecurity is required.
• 2+ years of IAM cybersecurity experience is required.
• 1+ years of management/leadership experience is preferred.

We believe that the best care for our patients starts with the best care for our employees. Our employee benefits programs help our employees get healthy and stay healthy. We offer a comprehensive compensation and benefits program that includes one of the finest prepaid tuition assistance programs in the region. Penn Medicine employees are actively engaged and committed to our mission. Together we will continue to make medical advances that help people live longer, healthier lives.

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We are an Equal Opportunity employer. Candidates are considered for employment without regard to race, ethnicity, color, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, religion, national origin, ancestry, age, disability, marital status, familial status, genetic information, domestic or sexual violence victim status, citizenship status, military status, status as a protected veteran or any other status protected by applicable law.