Senior Identity & Access Program Lead (Hybrid)

Hampton North; Connecticut; Hybrid; USD 105,000 - 120,000; Full time

Job summary

Hampton North seeks a program leader for the identity workstream within a large platform modernization in financial services. You will manage the identity backlog, priorities, decisions, and governance across Security, IT, HR, Compliance, and the implementation partner.

Responsibilities include roadmap ownership, cross-functional coordination, design governance, and sign-off on deliverables with traceability through deployment and handoff.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in IT, Cybersecurity, CS, or related field.
• Minimum 5+ years of progressive IAM/IGA/cybersecurity program delivery experience.
• 3+ years leading complex cross-functional identity initiatives.
• Experience in financial services or regulated industries preferred.
• Consulting or large implementation program experience preferred.
• Familiarity with CIAM and fine-grained authorization concepts.
• Strong knowledge of RBAC, ABAC, ReBAC, and access governance.
• Certifications such as CISSP/CISM/CRISC/CISA/CGEIT or PMP/PMI-ACP welcomed.

Responsibilities

• Own the identity workstream roadmap, backlog, priorities, acceptance criteria, decisions, risks, and dependencies in an agile program.
• Partner with PMO on sprint planning, backlog refinement, and prioritization with stakeholder buy-in.
• Lead status meetings, requirements, design, governance, and decision forums; report progress to leadership.
• Coordinate delivery across Security, IT, HR, Compliance, Legal/Privacy, and implementation partners.
• Bring business and technical contributors from outside the program into the work.
• Review and approve deliverables with traceability from requirements to deployment.
• Sequence dependencies with Salesforce, CIAM, and data initiatives.
• Oversee IGA platform selection and partner delivery against requirements.
• Establish governance for identity sources, lifecycle states, access requests, and approvals.
• Ensure entitlement models support least privilege and auditable approvals.
• Oversee non-human identity governance including service accounts.
• Define decision rights and ownership for identity policies and onboarding.
• Oversee onboarding of prioritized applications, testing, traceability, defects, go-live readiness.
• Ensure hypercare, runbooks, onboarding guides, and knowledge transfer are delivered.
• Collaborate with GRC, Compliance, Legal/Privacy, and Internal Audit on controls and regulatory readiness.
• Establish KPIs/KRIs for access requests, lifecycle, certifications, and onboarding.
• Drive corrective actions and mature identity governance based on audits and feedback.

Skills

IAM

IGA

Cybersecurity

Agile delivery

Cross-functional leadership

Stakeholder management

Education

Bachelor's degree in Information Technology, Cybersecurity, Computer Science, or related field

Master's degree or equivalent experience preferred

Tools

Okta

Ping

SailPoint

Saviynt

Microsoft Entra ID Governance

Salesforce

Job description

Hampton North seeks a program leader for the identity workstream within a large platform modernization in financial services. You will manage the identity backlog, priorities, decisions, and governance across Security, IT, HR, Compliance, and the implementation partner.

Responsibilities include roadmap ownership, cross-functional coordination, design governance, and sign-off on deliverables with traceability through deployment and handoff.