Senior IAM & IGA Engineer - Remote

United Airlines; Chicago (IL); Remote; USD 112,000 - 147,000; Full time

Job summary

United Airlines seeks a Senior Engineer for Identity Governance and Administration to support a large IAM/IGA platform across on-prem and cloud environments. The role emphasizes hands-on engineering, architecture, and secure-by-design patterns, with a focus on JML, provisioning, and a ServiceNow integration ecosystem.

The candidate will collaborate with architects, engineers, and business partners to design, build, and sustain scalable IGA capabilities, ensuring compliance and audit readiness

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree required, STEM field preferred.
• 3+ years of relevant IAM/IGA experience.
• Advanced knowledge of IAM/IGA concepts: lifecycle, provisioning, reviews, RBAC, access governance.
• Experience with Saviynt, SailPoint or comparable platforms.
• Direct Saviynt engineering/architecture experience.
• Ability to design, test, and troubleshoot integrations via APIs, services, files, databases, and cloud.
• Ability to define technical requirements, diagrams, and runbooks.
• Experience with automation, scripting, version control, CI/CD, monitoring, change management, reliability.
• Strong communication, documentation, and stakeholder skills.
• Ability to work independently and influence outcomes without direct supervision.
• Must be legally authorized to work in the United States without sponsorship.

Responsibilities

• Engineer, configure, test, and implement IAM/IGA capabilities across cloud and on-prem.
• Develop joins/moves/leavers workflows, provisioning, and lifecycle-based access controls.
• Produce integration designs, test evidence, and implementation docs.
• Collaborate with architects on JML workflows, provisioning, ServiceNow integrations, access patterns, and certification.
• Evaluate designs, document decisions, risks, and controls.
• Create and maintain technical requirements, reference architectures, and interface designs for IGA, including non-human identity and certifications.
• Develop scalable integration patterns for access requests, approvals, fulfillment, revocation, and certification.
• Serve as technical authority for IGA solution designs across stakeholders.
• Promote adoption of JML, provisioning, non-human governance, and ServiceNow integrations.

Skills

IAM

IGA

API integrations

Automation

Scripting

DevOps

CI/CD

Problem solving

Documentation

Communication

Collaboration

Independent work

Education

Bachelor's degree

STEM field preferred

Tools

Saviynt

SailPoint

ServiceNow

Active Directory

Delinea / Entra

Job description

United Airlines seeks a Senior Engineer for Identity Governance and Administration to support a large IAM/IGA platform across on-prem and cloud environments. The role emphasizes hands-on engineering, architecture, and secure-by-design patterns, with a focus on JML, provisioning, and a ServiceNow integration ecosystem.

The candidate will collaborate with architects, engineers, and business partners to design, build, and sustain scalable IGA capabilities, ensuring compliance and audit readiness