Principal Cybersecurity Engineer – Identity & Access Management

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Progress

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1001 - 5000 employees

Founded 1981

🤖 Artificial Intelligence

💰 Post-IPO Equity on 1995-01

Software • Artificial Intelligence • Infrastructure Management

Progress is a software company that offers a wide range of products and services aimed at improving digital experiences, data management, and infrastructure management. The company provides AI-powered applications across its platforms, enabling businesses to develop and manage these applications efficiently. Progress offers solutions such as the Progress Data Platform for data, AI, and analytics projects, and Sitefinity for digital content and experience management. Additionally, Progress provides infrastructure management products to help streamline network and application management, as well as data connectivity tools under the DataDirect brand. The acquisition of ShareFile has expanded Progress's capabilities in secure file transfer and collaboration. With a strong focus on artificial intelligence, Progress works to deliver innovative solutions for its customers and partners across various industries.

📋 Description

• Own the enterprise IAM governance and architecture strategy • Define multi-year IAM roadmap aligned to Zero Trust and business priorities • Influence funding, prioritization, and sequencing of IAM initiatives • Represent identity risk and posture to senior leadership and governance forums • Establish enterprise identity reference architectures and guardrails • Act as final design authority for identity integrations and access models • Define authentication, authorization, and privilege models across platforms • Ensure consistency across workforce, application, and privileged identities • Guide adoption of password-less, JIT access, and adaptive authentication • Define enterprise IAM policies, standards, and control frameworks • Oversee access governance methodologies (reviews, certifications, exceptions) • Establish IAM risk metrics and maturity assessments • Drive remediation of systemic identity risks • Provide executive-level support for audits and regulatory inquiries • Partner with IT, HR, Legal, Compliance, and Engineering teams • Influence identity operating models without direct operational ownership • Lead working groups and design councils related to identity • Evaluate IAM, IGA, and PAM technologies from a strategic perspective • Define success criteria for IAM tooling and integrations • Stay current with identity threat trends and evolving best practices

🎯 Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in information technology, Information Security/Assurance, Computer Science, Engineering, or related field or equivalent combination of education and experience • 6-8 years of experience in cybersecurity, identity security, or security engineering • Deep expertise in IAM governance, architecture, and risk management • Proven experience leading enterprise-scale IAM initiatives • Strong understanding of zero trust identity architectures, RBAC / ABAC and role governance, privileged access governance and admin models, and Identity lifecycle / access assurance • Experience influencing architecture and security outcomes across large organizations • Excellent executive communication and stakeholder management skills. • Identity platform experience across multiple vendors (Entra ID, Okta, SailPoint, CyberArk, etc.) • Experience in regulated or complex enterprise environments • Certifications such as CISSP, CCSP, SABSA, or identity-focused credentials.

🏖️ Benefits

• Competitive remuneration package • Employee Stock Purchase Plan Enrolment • 30 days of earned leave • An extra day off for your birthday • Various other leaves like marriage leave, casual leave, maternity, and paternity leave • Premium Group Medical Insurance for employees and five dependents • Personal accident insurance coverage • Life insurance coverage • Professional development reimbursement • Interest subsidy on loans - either vehicle or personal loans • Health club reimbursement