Principal Engineer – Identity Governance & Administration (IGA)

Role Overview

We are seeking aPrincipal Engineer - Identity Governance & Administration (IGA)to serve as thetechnical authority and ownerfor enterprise-wide identity governance capabilities. This role is responsible for defining and evolving thegovernance, lifecycle, and policy layerthat protects company intellectual property, enforces least privilege, and enables Zero Trust at scale.

This is adeeply technical, hands-on principal rolewith end-to-end accountability-fromIGA platform evaluation and selectiontogovernance model design, integration engineering, and long-term roadmap ownership. The ideal candidate bringsexpert-level experience with SailPoint, Saviynt, or equivalent enterprise IGA platforms, combined with strong systems thinking and the ability to design durable governance solutions in complex, global environments.

IGA is aTier-0 security capability. Weak governance leads directly to over-privileged access, toxic combinations, audit failures, and elevated breach impact. This role ensures access isintentional, justified, reviewable, and continuously governed-across humans, machines, and AI-driven identities.

Key Responsibilities

IGA Architecture & Technical Ownership

• Act as theprincipal technical ownerfor Identity Governance & Administration platforms and capabilities
• Define, document, and evolveend-to-end IGA architecture, including:
  • Identity lifecycle management
  • Access request and approval workflows
  • Role, entitlement, and policy models
  • Certification and review frameworks
• Establishreference architectures, engineering standards, and design patternsfor identity governance
• Own themulti-year IGA roadmapaligned with enterprise security and Zero Trust strategy

Identity Lifecycle & Access Governance

• Design and implementscalable Joiner / Mover / Leaver (JML)workflows integrated with:
  • HR systems
  • Directories and IAM platforms
  • Cloud platforms and applications
• Build and maintainRBAC, ABAC, and policy-based access modelsthat scale across thousands of applications
• Implement and optimize:
  • Access request and approval flows
  • Periodic access certifications and reviews
  • Segregation of Duties (SoD) controls
• Ensure governance coverage acrosshuman, privileged, and non-human identities

Governance for Non-Human, AI & Machine Identities

• Define governance models fornon-human identities, including:
  • AI agent identities
  • Robotic Process Automation (RPA) identities
  • Service accounts, application identities, and APIs
• Ensure machine and AI identities are:
  • Properly onboarded, approved, and reviewed
  • Least-privileged and policy-governed
  • Auditable and lifecycle-managed
• Prevent entitlement sprawl, orphaned access, and unmanaged machine identities
• Integrate non-human identity governance into enterprise access reviews and compliance reporting

Zero Trust Enablement & Risk Reduction

• Embedleast privilege, continuous governance, and defense-in-depthinto all access models
• Partner with IAM, Security Architecture, and Cloud teams to ensure governance supportsZero Trust enforcement
• Proactively identify and remediate:
  • Access sprawl
  • Toxic combinations
  • Orphaned and dormant entitlements
• Reduce blast radius by ensuring access istime-bound, role-aligned, and continuously reviewed

Platform Engineering, Integration & Automation

• Evaluate, select, and implemententerprise-grade IGA platforms(SailPoint, Saviynt, or equivalent)
• Engineer robust integrations with:
  • Directories and IAM systems
  • Cloud platforms (AWS, Azure, GCP)
  • Enterprise and SaaS applications
• Push beyond tool configuration toengineered governance solutions
• Increase automation to reduce manual effort, operational risk, and audit friction

Innovation, Continuity & Technical Leadership

• Continuously assess emerging IGA capabilities, identity standards, and automation opportunities
• Ensureknowledge continuityand eliminate dependency on individual resources
• Mentor senior engineers and elevate identity governance maturity across the organization
• Make high-judgment tradeoffs between speed, risk, and long-term maintainability

Required Qualifications

Experience

• 10+ yearsof experience in Identity & Access Management withdeep specialization in IGA
• Proven experience designing and operatingenterprise-scale identity governance platforms

Technical Expertise

• Expert-level hands-on experience with:
  • SailPoint (IdentityIQ / IdentityNow), Saviynt, or comparable IGA platforms
• Strong understanding of:
  • Identity lifecycle management (JML)
  • Access governance and certification models
  • RBAC, ABAC, and policy-driven access control
  • Segregation of Duties (SoD) design and enforcement
  • Zero Trust and identity-centric security architecture
• Experience integrating IGA platforms with:
  • HR systems
  • Directories and IAM platforms
  • Cloud and SaaS applications
• Strong understanding of APIs, integrations, and distributed systems

Architectural & Leadership Skills

• Ability to design governance solutions that scale acrossglobal enterprises
• Strong systems thinking and long-term architectural judgment
• Proven ability to influence architecture and standards without formal authority
• Comfortable operating inambiguous, high-impact problem spaces

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience supportingglobal enterpriseswith complex identity ecosystems
• Strong cloud identity governance experience across AWS, Azure, and/or GCP
• Background in security architecture, platform engineering, or large-scale SaaS systems
• Familiarity with privileged access governance and non-human identity risk
• Experience partnering with GRC, Audit, and Compliance teams

Why This Role Is Critical

Identity governance determineswho gets access, to what, and why. Without strong IGA, Zero Trust cannot scale, audits become fragile, and security incidents have outsized impact.

This role directly protects the organization from:

• Over-privileged access and toxic combinations
• Unmanaged AI, robotic, and service identities
• Audit failures and compliance exposure
• Excessive blast radius during security incidents

This position is for an engineer who wants todefine how identity governance works-not just operate tools-and who understands that governance is acore security control, not an afterthought.