Principal Cybersecurity Engineer specializing in IAM for Progress, defining governance strategies and overseeing identity risks across the organization.
Responsibilities
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.
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.
Excellent executive communication and stakeholder management skills.
Experience operating as a principal, lead architect, or enterprise security architect.
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