What are the responsibilities and job description for the Identity & Access Management Intern position at Group 1001?
Group 1001 is a consumer-centric, technology-driven family of insurance companies on a mission to deliver outstanding value and operational performance by combining financial strength and stability with deep insurance expertise and a can-do culture. Group1001’s culture emphasizes the importance of collaboration, communication, core business focus, risk management, and striving for outcomes. This goal extends to how we hire and onboard our most valuable assets – our employees.
Group 1001, and its affiliated companies, is strongly committed to providing a supportive work environment where employee differences are valued. Diversity is an essential ingredient in making Group 1001 a welcoming place to work and is fundamental in building a high-performance team. Diversity embodies all the differences that make us unique individuals. All employees share the responsibility for maintaining a workplace culture of dignity, respect, understanding and appreciation of individual and group differences.
This intern position offers hands-on experience with the IAM team and industry-standard identity solutions (SailPoint, Terraform, Entra/AD) within the financial services sector. Intern(s) would work directly with Group1001 engineers on high-impact projects from automating access management workflows (SailPoint) to developing security solutions that protect billions in assets. Beyond the technical skills, interns would gain unique exposure to Platform Engineering operations while receiving mentorship from both industry veterans and early-career engineers.
Main Accountabilities:
Employees who meet benefit eligibility guidelines and work 30 hours or more weekly, have the ability to enroll in Group 1001’s benefits package. Employees (and their families) are eligible to participate in the Company’s comprehensive health, dental, and vision insurance plan options. Employees are also eligible for Basic and Supplemental Life Insurance, Short and Long-Term Disability, and to enroll in the Company’s Employee Assistance Program and other wellness initiatives. Employees may also participate in the Company’s 401K plan, with matching contributions by the Company.
Group 1001, and its affiliated companies, is strongly committed to providing a supportive work environment where employee differences are valued. Diversity is an essential ingredient in making Group 1001 a welcoming place to work and is fundamental in building a high-performance team. Diversity embodies all the differences that make us unique individuals. All employees share the responsibility for maintaining a workplace culture of dignity, respect, understanding and appreciation of individual and group differences.
This intern position offers hands-on experience with the IAM team and industry-standard identity solutions (SailPoint, Terraform, Entra/AD) within the financial services sector. Intern(s) would work directly with Group1001 engineers on high-impact projects from automating access management workflows (SailPoint) to developing security solutions that protect billions in assets. Beyond the technical skills, interns would gain unique exposure to Platform Engineering operations while receiving mentorship from both industry veterans and early-career engineers.
Main Accountabilities:
- Identity Risk Scoring System – build an engine that calculates risk scores for user identities, including but not limited to access patterns, role combinations, login behaviors, and policy violations. This would involve building APIs to collect data from SailPoint, Entra / AD and zScaler, as well as creating a weighted scoring algorithm to gauge risk severity in outputs.
- Application Dependency Mapper – build a tool that maps relationships between applications and user roles / groups. This would result in identifying access dependencies, role hierarchies, integration points, and usage patterns, creating a tangible understanding of internal access management complexities.
- Identity Analytics Optimization – create a mechanism to analyze access patterns, compliance metrics, usage trends and cost effectiveness opportunities. This effort could include but is not limited to creating an identity data warehouse and ETL pipelines from SailPoint, Entra / AD, etc., and would provide actionable insight with potential dashboard interfacing.
- Undergraduate students completing their sophomore or junior year pursuing Identity Management and Security, Computer Science or Information Technology Majors.
- Availability to work full-time hours over the summer.
- Interest in solving identity problems with well-structured practice and code.
- Basic understanding of Identity & Access Management, and Privileged Access Management.
- Ability to work tasks independently and participate in team ceremonies, formal and otherwise.
- Willingness to try, fail fast and iterate.
- Excellent communication skills, with a willingness to give and take feedback.
Employees who meet benefit eligibility guidelines and work 30 hours or more weekly, have the ability to enroll in Group 1001’s benefits package. Employees (and their families) are eligible to participate in the Company’s comprehensive health, dental, and vision insurance plan options. Employees are also eligible for Basic and Supplemental Life Insurance, Short and Long-Term Disability, and to enroll in the Company’s Employee Assistance Program and other wellness initiatives. Employees may also participate in the Company’s 401K plan, with matching contributions by the Company.
