Identity Governance Lead: Access Certification & IAM

Horizontal Talent; Mounds View (MN); On-site; USD 79,000 - 127,000; Full time

Job summary

Horizontal Talent seeks a seasoned Identity Governance Specialist to lead access certification and review initiatives within a complex enterprise environment. You will shape governance processes, strengthen audit readiness, and help improve how identities, entitlements, and access are managed across multiple systems.

Collaborate with business, application, audit, compliance, and security teams; design scalable certification workflows, define integrations, and automate remediation.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree or equivalent combination of education and experience.
• 4+ years of Identity Governance & Administration (IGA) or IAM experience.
• Hands-on SailPoint Identity Security Cloud experience for access certifications and reviews.
• Strong knowledge of user, entitlement, and role certifications including identity correlation.

Responsibilities

• Own design, configuration, and ongoing management of access certification and review processes.
• Translate governance requirements into scalable certification workflows.
• Define and support integrations using various methods (connectors, API, file, database).
• Configure entitlement and role certification campaigns with reviewer assignment and delegation logic.
• Establish escalation paths, reminders, and automated remediation workflows.
• Review changes affecting certification accuracy or auditability.
• Use SQL and relational data to support reconciliation and reporting.
• Document configuration details and runbooks for ongoing governance.
• Collaborate with business, application, audit, compliance, and security teams to align requirements with system capabilities.
• Continuously evaluate platform features to improve program effectiveness.

Skills

Identity Governance

IAM

Data analysis

Stakeholder communication

Automation

Education

Bachelor’s degree or university degree, or equivalent

Tools

SailPoint Identity Security Cloud

REST APIs

PowerShell

Job description

Horizontal Talent seeks a seasoned Identity Governance Specialist to lead access certification and review initiatives within a complex enterprise environment. You will shape governance processes, strengthen audit readiness, and help improve how identities, entitlements, and access are managed across multiple systems.

Collaborate with business, application, audit, compliance, and security teams; design scalable certification workflows, define integrations, and automate remediation.