Prin Cybersecurity Specialist

TALENT Software Services; Minneapolis (MN); On-site; USD 110,000 - 160,000; Full time

Job summary

TALENT Software Services is seeking a skilled Identity Governance & Administration specialist to serve as technical owner for certification programs. You will translate governance policies into scalable certification workflows and define integration requirements across connectors, APIs, files, databases, and directories.

You'll architect and configure user, entitlement, and role certifications; establish reviewer assignments, escalation paths, and remediation workflows; work with auditors to

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree required.
• 4 years of experience in Identity Governance & Administration (IGA) or IAM.
• Hands-on SailPoint Identity Security Cloud experience with access certifications.
• Strong expertise in: User, entitlement, and role certifications; Identity correlation and aggregation; Entitlement modeling and RBAC.
• Familiarity with scripting or automation used alongside SailPoint (e.g., REST APIs, PowerShell).

Responsibilities

• Own and configure the certification program and governance controls.
• Translate governance policies, regulatory requirements, and control objectives into scalable certification.
• Define integration requirements: out-of-the-box and custom connectors; API-based, file-based, database-based, and directory-based integrations.
• Architect and configure user, entitlement, role, and application certifications; reviewer assignments and escalation paths.
• Provide detailed technical explanations of certification logic, configurations, and automation to auditors.

Skills

Identity governance

IAM

SailPoint

Certification

RBAC

APIs

PowerShell

Data quality

Education

Bachelor's degree

Tools

SailPoint Identity Security Cloud

PowerShell

REST APIs

Job description

Serve as the technical owner and is responsible for configuration of access certification and review program.

• Translate governance policies, regulatory requirements, and control objectives into scalable certification.
• Define integration requirements:
  • Out-of-the-box and custom connectors
  • API-based, file-based, database-based, and directory-based integrations
  • Specify required attributes, aggregation rules, mappings, and correlation logic to support accurate certifications.
• Architect and configure:
  • User, entitlement, role, and application certifications
  • Reviewer assignment logic and delegation models
  • Escalation paths, reminders, and completion SLAs
  • Automated remediation and revocation workflows
• Review and approve changes impacting:
  • Certification accuracy
  • Control effectiveness
  • Auditability or scalability
• Apply working knowledge of SQL and relational data structures to support reconciliation, reporting, and troubleshooting.
• Provide detailed technical explanations of certification logic, configurations, and automation to internal and external auditors.
• Collaborate with business and application teams to ensure governance requirements align with source system capabilities.
• Maintain configuration documentation, certification runbooks, and operational reporting.
• Continuously evaluate features and industry best practices to enhance certification effectiveness.
• Recommend governance and security enhancements to leadership based on risk, audit findings, and platform capabilities.

Must Haves

• Bachelor's degree / University degree
• 4 years of experience in Identity Governance & Administration (IGA) or IAM.
• Hands-on experience operating SailPoint Identity Security Cloud, with deep focus on access certifications and reviews.
• Strong expertise in:
  • User, entitlement, and role certifications
  • Identity correlation and aggregation
  • Entitlement modeling and RBAC
• Familiarity with scripting or automation used alongside SailPoint (e.g., REST APIs, PowerShell).
• Experience with SailPoint integrations using connector-based, API-based, file-based, and database-backed approaches.
• Ability to analyze data quality issues that impact certification accuracy.
• Ability to clearly communicate certification design, risk, and evidence to audit, compliance, and business stakeholders.

Nice to Haves

• Experience supporting identity lifecycle processes and deprovisioning workflows.
• Experience designing certification programs in large, complex, or regulated environments.
• Strong technical leadership and influence skills.
• Ability to establish and revise processes/documents based on new and changing security requirements.
• Demonstrated knowledge of information security policies, standards, and/or governance controls in complex computing environments.

Responsibilities

• Responsible for the planning, design and build of security architectures; oversees the implementation of network and computer security and ensures compliance with corporate cybersecurity policies and procedures.
• Monitors cybersecurity requirements for local area networks (LANs), wide area networks (WANs), virtual private networks (VPNs), routers, firewalls, and related network devices.
• Performs security assessments of applications and systems using penetration and vulnerability testing and risk analysis.
• Specialize in understanding cyber adversary tactics, techniques, and procedures in the interest of protecting Healthcare's network.
• Ability to detect and mitigate cyber incidents and vulnerabilities.
• Cyber defense operations, specialized penetration testing, and threat client & forensics as well as advanced security management skills.
• Development expertise in cybersecurity considerations to meet evolving cloud computing, web development, and mobile device requirements.
• Using technologies, processes, and practices to protect computers, networks, programs, and data from unauthorized access or attacks aimed for exploitation.
• Monitor and protect products and systems.

Specialist Career Stream

• Typically an individual contributor with responsibility in a professional discipline or specialty.
• Delivers and/or manages projects assigned and works with other stakeholders to achieve desired results.
• May act as a mentor to colleagues or may direct the work of other lower level professionals.
• The majority of time is spent delivering and overseeing the projects - from design to implementation - while adhering to policies, using specialized knowledge and skills normally acquired through advanced education.

Differentiating Factors

• Autonomy: Seasoned individual contributor. Works independently under limited supervision to determine and develop approach to solutions. Coaches and reviews the work of lower level specialists; may manage projects/processes.
• Organizational Impact: May be responsible for entire projects or processes within job area. Contributes to the completion of work group objectives, through building relationships and consensus to reach agreements on assignments.
• Innovation and Complexity: Problems and issues faced are difficult, and may require understanding of multiple issues, job areas or specialties. Makes improvements of processes, systems or products to enhance performance of the job area. Analysis provided is in-depth in nature and often provides recommendations on process improvements.
• Communication and Influence: Communicates with senior internal and external customers and vendors. Exchange information of facts, statuses, ideas and issues to achieve objective, and influence decision-making.
• Leadership and Talent Management: May provide guidance, coaching and training to other employees within job area. May manage projects, requiring delegation of work and review of others' work product.
• Required Knowledge and Experience: Requires advanced knowledge of job area combining breadth and depth, typically obtained through advanced education combined with experience. May have practical knowledge of project management. 4 years of experience with a high school diploma or equivalent.