Identity & Access Management SailPoint Engineering

Country: Mexico

Key Responsibilities

1. Strategic Leadership & Governance

• Define and execute the IAM/IGA strategy aligned with enterprise cybersecurity and digital transformation objectives.
• Establish governance frameworks for identity lifecycle management, RBAC/ABAC, SoD controls, and certification campaigns.
• Develop and maintain IAM roadmaps, investment plans, and KPIs.
• Drive modernization initiatives including migration to SailPoint IdentityNow (if applicable) and cloud-first identity architecture.

2. SailPoint Platform Ownership

• Provide architectural oversight and engineering leadership for SailPoint (IdentityIQ) and File Access Manager (FAM).
• Ensure platform scalability, resilience, performance tuning, and high availability.
• Lead onboarding of enterprise applications (on-prem, SaaS, cloud, legacy systems).
• Oversee connector configurations, rule development (Beanshell/Java), workflows, and custom integrations.
• Manage role modeling, access policies, and entitlement governance frameworks.

3. Identity Lifecycle & Automation

• Implement automated Joiner-Mover-Leaver (JML) processes.
• Integrate HR systems (e.g., Workday), Active Directory, Azure AD, LDAP, cloud platforms (AWS/Azure/GCP), and business-critical applications.
• Reduce manual provisioning through orchestration and API-driven automation.
• Establish measurable SLAs for provisioning and de-provisioning.

4. Compliance, Risk & Audit

• Ensure alignment with regulatory and compliance frameworks (e.g., SOX, GLBA, PCI-DSS, FFIEC, ISO 27001).
• Lead access certification campaigns and remediation processes.
• Partner with Internal Audit and Risk teams to address findings and improve control maturity.
• Maintain documentation, control evidence, and audit-ready posture.

5. Engineering & Operations Management

• Lead, mentor, and scale a team of IAM engineers and architects.
• Implement DevSecOps practices for SailPoint code deployment and change management.
• Establish operational monitoring, incident response processes, and root cause analysis for IAM services.
• Manage vendor relationships and third-party IAM service providers.

6. Stakeholder Engagement

• Partner with Application Owners and Business Units for secure onboarding and access governance.
• Present IAM metrics and risk posture to senior leadership and governance committees.
• Drive cross-functional alignment on identity standards and best practices.

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