Hybrid Principal Cybersecurity Engineer – Identity & Access Management

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About the role

  • 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.
  • 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.
  • Excellent executive communication and stakeholder management skills.
  • Experience operating as a principal, lead architect, or enterprise security architect.
  • 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

  • Generous remuneration package.
  • Employee Stock Purchase Plan Enrollment.
  • 30 days paid annual vacation.
  • An extra day off for your birthday.
  • 2 additional days off for volunteering.
  • Premium healthcare and dental care coverage.
  • Additional pension insurance.
  • Well-equipped gym on-site with CrossFit equipment and a climbing wall.
  • Co-funded Multisport card.
  • Daycare Center for your little ones onsite.
  • Flexible working hours.
  • Free underground parking with a designated space for bikes, motorbikes and electric scooters.

Job title

Principal Cybersecurity Engineer – Identity & Access Management

Job type

Experience level

Lead

Salary

Not specified

Degree requirement

Bachelor's Degree

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