IAM Governance Analyst

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🇺🇸 United States – Remote

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📋 Description

• Support standards for IAM group creation, ownership, naming, and lifecycle management • Maintain inventories of IAM groups, access models, owners, and dependencies • Identify legacy, orphaned, redundant, or high-risk access for review • Assist with access rationalization to improve least-privilege alignment, segregation of duties, audit readiness, and operational clarity • Coordinate periodic access reviews and certifications • Prepare evidence, follow up with business owners, and document review outcomes • Partner with application, infrastructure, security, compliance, and audit teams on access design and governance decisions • Document group standards, ownership models, review procedures, runbooks, decision records, and support handoff materials • Analyze IAM data to identify trends, gaps, exceptions, and control risks • Communicate findings to technical and non-technical stakeholders • Support role-based access control, privileged access processes, and identity lifecycle controls • Support Microsoft Entra ID / Azure AD, Active Directory, and integrated application governance activities • Participate in IAM governance change management and ensure changes are documented and traceable • Support internal and external audits by gathering evidence, explaining processes, and helping remediate gaps • Collaborate on process improvements that reduce access sprawl and improve IAM consistency, accountability, and maintainability • Troubleshoot and research access governance issues, escalating complex decisions as appropriate • Prepare status updates, process documentation, and stakeholder communications • Contribute to team knowledge sharing and continuous improvement of IAM standards, procedures, and controls

🎯 Requirements

• 3 or more years of experience in Identity and Access Management, information security, IT operations, application administration, audit support, or related technology/control environment • Working knowledge of IAM concepts, including identity lifecycle management, access reviews, role-based access control, least privilege, segregation of duties, and privileged access management • Experience working with Microsoft Entra ID / Azure AD, Active Directory, Microsoft 365, or similar enterprise identity and directory platforms • Ability to analyze groups, permissions, ownership, and access dependencies and translate findings into practical governance recommendations • Understanding of audit, privacy, regulatory, and internal control objectives related to access management and identity governance • Familiarity with authentication and identity integration concepts such as SSO, MFA, SAML, OAuth, OpenID Connect, SCIM, and federation is preferred • Experience documenting processes, procedures, standards, and control evidence • Ability to collaborate with Security, Infrastructure, Application, Audit, Compliance, and business stakeholders • Strong attention to detail, data quality, follow-through, and organizational skills • Ability to communicate technical access concepts to technical and non-technical audiences • Familiarity with scripting, reporting, Microsoft Graph, PowerShell, Excel, or data analysis tools is preferred but not required • Experience with identity governance platforms such as SailPoint, Saviynt, Microsoft Entra ID Governance, or similar solutions is a plus • Experience working in structured change management, incident/problem management, or Agile delivery environments is preferred • Availability for core support coverage Monday-Friday, 8:00 a.m.-5:00 p.m., with occasional escalations or time-sensitive governance activities outside normal business hours • Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Information Systems, Business, or related field • Relevant cloud and identity certifications are listed as qualifications

🏖️ Benefits

• Full-time remote work • Equal opportunity employment • Additional compensation and benefits information available upon request for residents of states with designated pay transparency requirements

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