Talent Software Services seeks a Principal Cybersecurity Specialist for a 5-month contract position. The role involves technical ownership of access certification and review programs. The ideal candidate will have expertise in Identity Governance & Administration (IGA) and SailPoint Identity Security Cloud.
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Prin Cybersecurity Specialist
Job Summary: Talent Software Services is in search of a Prin Cybersecurity Specialist for a contract position that can be worked 100% remotely. The opportunity will be for five months with a strong chance for a long-term extension.
Primary Responsibilities/Accountabilities:
- Serve as the technical owner and is responsible for configuration of access certification and review program.
- Translate governance policies, regulatory requirements, and control objectives into scalable certification.
- Define integration requirements:
- Out-of-the-box and custom connectors
- API-based, file-based, database-based, and directory-based integrations
- Specify required attributes, aggregation rules, mappings, and correlation logic to support accurate certifications.
- Architect and configure:
- User, entitlement, role, and application certifications
- Reviewer assignment logic and delegation models
- Escalation paths, reminders, and completion SLAs
- Automated remediation and revocation workflows
- Review and approve changes impacting:
- Certification accuracy
- Control effectiveness
- Auditability or scalability
- Apply working knowledge of SQL and relational data structures to support reconciliation, reporting, and troubleshooting.
- Provide detailed technical explanations of certification logic, configurations, and automation to internal and external auditors.
- Collaborate with business and application teams to ensure governance requirements align with source system capabilities.
- Maintain configuration documentation, certification runbooks, and operational reporting.
- Continuously evaluate features and industry best practices to enhance certification effectiveness.
- Recommend governance and security enhancements to leadership based on risk, audit findings, and platform capabilities.
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- Bachelor's degree / University degree
- 5+ years of experience in Identity Governance & Administration (IGA) or IAM.
- Hands-on experience operating SailPoint Identity Security Cloud, with deep focus on access certifications and reviews.
- Strong expertise in:
- User, entitlement, and role certifications
- Identity correlation and aggregation
- Entitlement modeling and RBAC
- Familiarity with scripting or automation used alongside SailPoint (e.g., REST APIs, PowerShell).
- Experience with SailPoint integrations using connector-based, API-based, file-based, and database-backed approaches.
- Ability to analyze data quality issues that impact certification accuracy.
- Ability to clearly communicate certification design, risk, and evidence to audit, compliance, and business stakeholders.
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- Experience supporting identity lifecycle processes and deprovisioning workflows.
- Experience designing certification programs in large, complex, or regulated environments.
- Strong technical leadership and influence skills.
- Ability to establish and revise processes/documents based on new and changing security requirements.
- Demonstrated knowledge of information security policies, standards, and/or governance controls in complex computing environments.
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