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A Day in the Life The Identity Lifecycle and Governance team is responsible for how users within an organization are given an identity, and how it is protected, which includes securing critical applications, data, and systems from unauthorized access while managing the identities and access rights of people the organization.
The Principal Identity Governance
Specialist is the senior technical resource with a primary focus on access certifications, entitlement governance, and audit readiness. Responsible for solution design, delivery and management of Access Governance processes, but also includes responsibility to ensure operational fitness of the system.
Responsibilities may include the following and other duties may be assigned.
- 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.
Required Knowledge and Expertise:
- Bachelor’s degree / University degree
- 12 years of IT experience with a Bachelor's Degree in Engineering, MCA, or MSc. with 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.
NICE TO HAVE:
- 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.
Physical Job Requirements The above statements are intended to describe the general nature and level of work being performed by employees assigned to this position, but they are not an exhaustive list of all the required responsibilities and skills of this position.
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Benefits & Compensation
Medtronic offers a competitive Salary and flexible Benefits Package A commitment to our employees lives at the core of our values. We recognize their contributions. They share in the success they help to create. We offer a wide range of benefits, resources, and competitive compensation plans designed to support you at every career and life stage.
This position is eligible for a short-term incentive called the Medtronic Incentive Plan (MIP).
We lead global healthcare technology and boldly attack the most challenging health problems facing humanity by searching out and finding solutions.
Our Mission — to alleviate pain, restore health, and extend life — unites a global team of 95,000 passionate people.
We are engineers at heart— putting ambitious ideas to work to generate real solutions for real people. From the R&D; lab, to the factory floor, to the conference room, every one of us experiments, creates, builds, improves and solves. We have the talent, diverse perspectives, and guts to engineer the extraordinary.
We change lives . Each team member, each day,
helps to improve and redefine how the world treats the most pressing health conditions, from heart disease to diabetes. Our industry leadership comes from the passion and ingenuity of our people. That’s who we are. Working alongside one another, we use science, medicine, and a profound understanding of the human body to build extraordinary technologies that can transform lives.
We build extraordinary solutions as one team . With one Medtronic Mindset defining how we work. Speed and decisiveness run through our DNA. Diverse perspectives inspire our bold answers to any challenge that comes our way. And we deliver results the right way, breakthrough after patient breakthrough.
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- Build a better future, amplifying your impact on the causes that matter to you and the world
- Grow a career reflective of your passion and abilities
- Connect to a dynamic and inclusive culture that welcomes the challenge of life-long learning
These commitments set our team apart from the rest:
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