Identity and Access Specialist

Job description

Overview: Responsible for defining, establishing, maintaining, and managing identities across the organization. Manages and maintains the most complex access to the organization's systems, applications, and data ensuring adherence to security engineering and governance policies and principles, especially when provisioning and de-provisioning access, and remediating issues. Ensures accuracy of provisioning and deprovisioning. Creates and maintains departmental standard operating procedures. Assists in problem resolution of outstanding request issues of less experienced analysts. Primary Responsibilities: - Utilize advanced techniques and expertise to provision access while conducting thorough validations, ensuring precise compliance to confidentiality, policies and procedures, and service level agreements. - Lead recertification process, auditing permissions against established policies, and addressing any identified discrepancies to maintain a secure access environment. - Lead diagnosis and resolution of complex identity and access issues, serving as primary point of escalation for troubleshooting challenges beyond basic concerns. - Conduct comprehensive root cause analysis and imp...