Engineer Identity and Access Management

Thomas Jefferson University; Orlando (FL); On-site; USD 90,000 - 130,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical insurance

Dental insurance

Vision insurance

Retirement plans

Tuition assistance

Job summary

Thomas Jefferson University is seeking an IAM professional to implement and maintain secure, scalable identity and access management systems within a focused domain such as identity governance or privileged access management. You will oversee provisioning, access control policies, and integration of authentication mechanisms to ensure continuous monitoring and compliance.

This role emphasizes collaboration across teams and development of robust documentation, with a focus on zero trust and least

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in a science, technology, engineering, or math discipline.
• 3 years related work experience.
• Strong problem-solving and analytical abilities.
• Excellent communication skills for technical and non-technical audiences.
• Ability to manage multiple priorities in a fast-paced environment.
• Ability to write clear, concise technical and process documentation.

Responsibilities

• Implement and maintain IAM solutions, including authentication, authorization, privileged access management, and identity governance, ensuring reliability, scalability, and compliance.
• Apply established policies and procedures to administer user and privileged access, ensuring compliance with best practices, including zero trust and least privilege models.
• Collaborate with team members to share information, interpret requirements, and resolve issues related to identity and access management.
• Contribute to the continuous improvement of IAM processes, systems, or products by identifying and implementing enhancements that positively impact job area performance.
• Monitor access controls and respond to access-related security incidents, performing initial analysis and recommending system adjustments or enhancements to improve job area effectiveness.
• Develop and update technical documentation to support ongoing IAM operations and ensure knowledge transfer across teams and follow robust DevOps processes.

Skills

Problem-solving

Analytical abilities

Communication skills

Multitasking

Education

Bachelor’s Degree in STEM

Job description

Job Summary

Responsible for the implementation and maintenance of secure, scalable systems for managing user and machine identities and access, primarily in a single specialized domain such as identity governance, privileged access management, or user authentication. Oversees account provisioning, access control policies, or integration of authentication mechanisms within their domain area while ensuring continuous monitoring and compliance. Contributes to efficient user management practices and cross-functional initiatives to proactively prevent unauthorized access.

Essential Functions

• Implement and maintain IAM solutions, including authentication, authorization, privileged access management, and identity governance, ensuring reliability, scalability, and compliance.


• Apply established policies and procedures to administer user and privileged access, ensuring compliance with best practices, including zero trust and least privilege models.


• Collaborate with team members to share information, interpret requirements, and resolve issues related to identity and access management.


• Contribute to the continuous improvement of IAM processes, systems, or products by identifying and implementing enhancements that positively impact job area performance.


• Monitor access controls and respond to access-related security incidents, performing initial analysis and recommending system adjustments or enhancements to improve job area effectiveness.


• Develop and update technical documentation to support ongoing IAM operations and ensure knowledge transfer across teams and follow robust DevOps processes.

Additional Responsibilities

Organizational Impact: Works to achieve operational objectives within job area with direct impact on job area results. Sets objectives for own job area to meet the objectives or goals of projects and assignments. May contribute to technical results on larger, moderately complex projects, products, or systems.

Innovation & Complexity: Responsible for making adjustments or recommended enhancements in systems and processes to solve problems or improve effectiveness of job area. Implements and executes on technical initiatives and solutions. Problems and issues faced are general, and may require understanding of broader set of issues but typically are not complex. Problems may require understanding of other job areas. Problems are typically solved through drawing from prior experiences, with analysis of the issue.

Communication & Influence: Communicates with contacts typically within job area on matters that involve obtaining or providing information requiring some explanation or interpretation in order to reach agreement. May work to influence parties within own job area at an operational level.

Qualifications

• Education - Required Bachelor’s Degree in a science, technology, engineering, or math discipline


• Experience - Required 3 years related work experience.


• Knowledge, Skills and Abilities - Required Strong problem-solving and analytical abilities.


• Excellent communication skills for technical and non-technical audiences.


• Ability to manage multiple priorities in a fast-paced environment.


• Ability to write clear, concise technical and process documentation.

Licenses and Certifications

• Preferred MCSA - Microsoft Certified Solutions Associate - Microsoft Upon Hire


• EPIC Certification - Epic Systems Upon Hire

Values and Habits

• Put People First: Create a safe environment where all colleagues feel supported and motivated to be their best at work.


• Build relationships: Build belonging, empathy, and collaboration.


• Engage with grace: Assume positive intent and share your perspective thoughtfully.


• Create moments: Aff…


• Do What’s Right Do What’s Right: Focus on how we work most effectively to get the best results.


• Prioritize What Matters: Clarify what’s most critical and why.


• Align on Expectations: Translate priorities into agreed upon accountabilities and outcomes.


• Act with integrity: Behave ethically and honestly in all interactions and business practices.


• Pursue Excellence: Focus on learning and growth.


• Look and Listen: Explore new ways of working and stay curious by learning from others.


• Innovate with Intent: Try new ideas that support organizational priorities.


• Value Lessons Learned: Acknowledge progress and insights that come from striving to improve.

Work Shift

Workday Day (United States of America) Worker Sub Type Regular Employee Entity Thomas Jefferson University Primary Location Address 1100 Virginia Drive, Fort Washington, Pennsylvania, United States of America

About Jefferson

Nationally ranked, Jefferson, which is principally located in the greater Philadelphia region, Lehigh Valley and Northeastern Pennsylvania and southern New Jersey, is reimagining health care and higher education to create unparalleled value. Jefferson is more than 65,000 people strong, dedicated to providing the highest-quality, compassionate clinical care for patients; making our communities healthier and stronger; preparing tomorrow’s professional leaders for 21st-century careers; and creating new knowledge through basic/programmatic, clinical and applied research. Thomas Jefferson University, home of Sidney Kimmel Medical College, Jefferson College of Nursing, and the Kanbar College of Design, Engineering and Commerce, dates back to 1824 and today comprises 10 colleges and three schools offering 200+ undergraduate and graduate programs to more than 8,300 students. Jefferson Health, nationally ranked as one of the top 15 not-for-profit health care systems in the country and the largest provider in the Philadelphia and Lehigh Valley areas, serves patients through millions of encounters each year at 32 hospitals campuses and more than 700 outpatient and urgent care locations throughout the region. Jefferson Health Plans is a not-for-profit managed health care organization providing a broad range of health coverage options in Pennsylvania and New Jersey for more than 35 years.

Jefferson is committed to providing equal educational and employment opportunities for all persons without regard to age, race, color, religion, creed, sexual orientation, gender, gender identity, marital status, pregnancy, national origin, ancestry, citizenship, military status, veteran status, handicap or disability or any other protected group or status.

Benefits

• medical (including prescription)


• supplemental insurance


• dental


• vision


• life and AD&D insurance


• short- and long-term disability


• flexible spending accounts


• retirement plans


• tuition assistance


• voluntary benefits

Colleagues have access to tuition discounts at Thomas Jefferson University after one year of full time service or two years of part time service. All colleagues, including those who work less than part-time (including per diem colleagues, adjunct faculty, and Jeff Temps), have access to medical (including prescription) insurance.

For more benefits information, please click here In keeping with Jefferson's Mission, We Improve Lives, it is our goal to recruit, retain, develop and reward highly-qualified employees. If you are enthusiastic, caring and dedicated to service excellence, we invite you to consider joining Jefferson. Jefferson encourages its employees to expand their knowledge and develop their careers through growth opportunities and continuing education. With a long standing history, Jefferson has been advancing the medical field from the heart of Center City Philadelphia for nearly 200 years. Our Mission, We Improve Lives, expands to every corner of the organization. From our weekly farmer’s market, to our new Jefferson Accelerator Zone for innovation, our employees’ passion for the community is evident by the daily gestures towards our patients, students and each other.