Principal Cybersecurity Specialist

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

We’re looking for a seasoned Identity Governance Specialist to lead access certification and review initiatives within a complex enterprise environment. This role offers the opportunity to shape governance processes, strengthen audit readiness, and help improve how identities, entitlements, and access are managed across multiple systems.

Responsibilities

• Own the design, configuration, and ongoing management of access certification and review processes.
• Translate governance requirements, control objectives, and compliance needs into scalable certification workflows.
• Define and support integrations using connector-based, API-based, file-based, and database-backed methods.
• Configure user, entitlement, role, and application certification campaigns, including reviewer assignment and delegation logic.
• Establish escalation paths, reminders, completion timelines, and automated remediation workflows.
• Review changes that may affect certification accuracy, auditability, control effectiveness, or scalability.
• Use SQL and relational data knowledge to support reconciliation, reporting, and troubleshooting.
• Document configuration details, operational processes, and certification runbooks to support ongoing governance.
• Partner with business, application, audit, compliance, and security teams to align governance requirements with system capabilities.
• Continuously evaluate platform features and best practices to improve the effectiveness of certification programs.

Skills

• Bachelor’s degree or university degree, or equivalent combination of education and experience.
• 4+ years of experience in Identity Governance & Administration (IGA) or Identity and Access Management (IAM).
• Hands‑on experience operating SailPoint Identity Security Cloud, especially access certifications and reviews.
• Strong knowledge of user, entitlement, and role certifications, along with identity correlation and aggregation.
• Experience with entitlement modeling and role‑based access control (RBAC).
• Working knowledge of scripting or automation tools such as REST APIs or PowerShell.
• Experience analyzing data quality issues that affect certification accuracy.
• Ability to explain technical decisions, risk considerations, and evidence clearly to technical and non‑technical stakeholders.
• Strong communication, collaboration, and problem‑solving skills.

Preferred Skills

• Experience supporting identity lifecycle and deprovisioning workflows.
• Background designing certification programs in large, complex, or regulated environments.
• Technical leadership experience and the ability to influence across teams.
• Experience establishing or updating process documentation in response to changing security needs.
• Knowledge of information security policies, standards, and governance controls.
• Familiarity with cybersecurity operations, vulnerability assessment, or threat‑focused environments.

Horizontal Talent is committed to building inclusive teams where people of all backgrounds, perspectives, and experiences can thrive. We value diversity, equity, and inclusion as essential to innovation, collaboration, and success.

Applications will be accepted for 4 weeks. For those that join the team, we offer competitive compensation and benefits including medical, dental, vision, and retirement. Check out all we have to offer and how you can become part of the Horizontal Talent Team. The pay range for this role is $57 - $92 per hour based on qualifications and experience.