Senior Manager Identity Governance Administration Engineering

Accountabilities:

• • Lead, mentor, and develop a team of Identity Governance engineers, establishing a strong culture of technical excellence, ownership, collaboration, and continuous improvement.
  • Define the technical strategy, architecture, engineering standards, and roadmap for enterprise Identity Governance and Administration services.
  • Lead the architecture, implementation, enhancement, and ongoing operation of SailPoint Identity Security Cloud.
  • Oversee core identity governance capabilities, including identity lifecycle management, access requests, certifications, provisioning, role-based controls, and policy workflows.
  • Guide the migration of legacy identity governance platforms and processes toward modern cloud-based identity governance capabilities.
  • Establish and evolve governance frameworks for non-human identities, including service accounts, machine identities, cloud service principals, bots, and other automated identities.
  • Expand identity automation through APIs, custom connectors, GitOps, Infrastructure as Code, automated testing, CI/CD, and DevSecOps practices.
  • Partner with security, architecture, cloud, application, compliance, and business leaders to support application onboarding, cloud transformation, regulatory requirements, and identity security initiatives.
  • Drive effective integration of identity governance capabilities across enterprise applications and technology environments.
  • Communicate technical strategy, delivery progress, risks, priorities, and operational outcomes to senior leadership and cross-functional stakeholders.
  • Establish engineering practices that improve reliability, scalability, security, maintainability, and operational efficiency across identity governance services.
  • Support Agile delivery practices and ensure engineering initiatives are delivered with appropriate quality, documentation, testing, and governance.

  Requirements

  • 8+ years of professional experience in Identity and Access Management, Identity Governance, or a closely related engineering discipline.
  • 5+ years of experience leading software engineering or identity engineering teams, with demonstrated ability to develop technical talent and manage complex initiatives.
  • Hands-on experience implementing, configuring, and operating SailPoint Identity Security Cloud in an enterprise environment.
  • Proven experience leading enterprise SailPoint implementations from architecture and design through deployment, optimization, and production support.
  • Strong knowledge of identity lifecycle management, access certifications, provisioning, RBAC, ABAC, access requests, and identity governance workflows.
  • Experience developing and managing identity integrations using APIs, connectors, automation frameworks, and enterprise systems.
  • Experience with Agile software delivery, DevSecOps, CI/CD, Git, Infrastructure as Code, and modern engineering practices.
  • Understanding of governance requirements for both human and non-human identities across enterprise and cloud environments.
  • Strong technical architecture and problem-solving abilities, with the judgment to balance security, scalability, operational efficiency, and business requirements.
  • Excellent communication skills, including the ability to explain complex identity and security concepts to senior executives, technical teams, and business stakeholders.
  • Demonstrated ability to establish technical strategy, influence cross-functional teams, and drive organizational change.
  • Strong leadership, mentoring, collaboration, and stakeholder-management skills.
  • Ability to operate effectively in a remote environment while managing priorities across geographically distributed teams.

  Benefits

  • Compensation: Competitive base salary aligned with the candidate's work location, skills, experience, and education, plus eligibility for a variable pay opportunity.
  • Retirement: 401(k) plan with company matching.
  • Healthcare: Medical, dental, and vision coverage.
  • Work flexibility: Remote, hybrid, or in-office work options depending on role and location.
  • Time off: Flexible paid time off, including vacation, sick time, volunteer time off, and 12 paid holidays.
  • Culture: Inclusive, purpose-driven workplace with an emphasis on employee development, belonging, and professional growth.
  • Additional benefits: Access to a broad range of employee benefits and wellbeing programs.
  • Equal opportunity: Commitment to an inclusive workplace and equal employment opportunities for qualified candidates.