What are the responsibilities and job description for the Identity and Access Management Certification Administrator - Sailpoint position at Synovus?
Job Summary:
We are seeking an Identity and Access Management Certification Administrator to oversee enterprise-wide access certifications using SailPoint IdentityIQ. This role is responsible for executing, managing, and optimizing the access certification process while maintaining a structured framework to evaluate risk levels and determine certification frequency for applications. The IAM Certification Administrator will collaborate with security, compliance, and business stakeholders to ensure that user access aligns with governance policies, mitigating risks associated with access permissions. This individual will leverage SailPoint's automation and analytics capabilities to enhance efficiency, reduce compliance risks, and improve overall identity governance.
Key Responsibilities:
- Configure, schedule, and execute access certifications within SailPoint IdentityIQ for manual, automated, and hybrid certifications
- Maintain and mature a risk-based certification framework, assessing application criticality and access frequency.
- Work with application owners and business leaders to ensure proper access review participation and compliance.
- Analyze certification results, identifying trends and risks to enhance governance policies
- Automate certification processes where applicable to streamline compliance efforts
- Provide reporting and metrics to demonstrate compliance with regulatory and internal audit requirements
- Stay up to date on IAM best practices, compliance mandates, and SailPoint enhancements to continuously improve certification processes.
Qualifications:
- This role is ideal for a detail-oriented IAM professional who is passionate about security, risk management, and process optimization within an enterprise environment.
- Experience with SailPoint IdentityIQ in an enterprise environment
- Knowledge of identity governance, access certifications, and compliance frameworks
- Strong analytical and problem-solving skills, with the ability to assess access risks
- Excellent communication skills to engage business and technical stakeholders
- Helps to build and maintain a security sensitive mindset within the company culture.
- Each team member is expected to be aware of risk within their functional area. This includes observing all policies, procedures, laws, regulations and risk limits specific to their role. Additionally, they should raise and report known or suspected violations to the appropriate Company authority in a timely fashion.
- Performs other related duties as required.
The information on this description has been designed to indicate the general nature and level of work performed by employees within this classification. It is not designed to contain or be interpreted as a comprehensive inventory of all duties, responsibilities, and qualifications required of employees assigned to this job.
Synovus is an Equal Opportunity Employer supporting diversity in the workplace.
Minimum Education:
- Bachelor's Degree in Business Administration, Information Technology, or related field or an equivalent combination of education and experience.
Minimum Experience:
- 4 years of combined IT and security work experience with exposure to systems analysis, application development, database design and administration;2 years of experience in Information Security is preferred.
- General knowledge of networking, databases, systems and/or web operations.
- General knowledge of security issues, techniques and implications across all existing computer platforms.
- Analytical skills and the ability to assist with root cause analysis.
- Interpersonal skills and the ability to communicate effectively with persons of all levels and personality types.
- Good communication skills and the ability to effectively communicate verbally and in writing.
- Ability to relate complex material and information in a user-friendly manner.
