Engineer Identity and Access Management

About the role

Responsible for the implementation and maintenance of secure, scalable systems for managing user and machine identities and access, primarily in a single specialized domain such as identity governance, privileged access management, or user authentication. Oversees account provisioning, access control policies, or integration of authentication mechanisms within their domain area while ensuring continuous monitoring and compliance. Contributes to efficient user management practices and cross-functional initiatives to proactively prevent unauthorized access.

Located at 1100 Virginia Drive, Fort Washington, Pennsylvania, United States of America. Employer: Thomas Jefferson University. Nationally ranked, Jefferson, which is principally located in the greater Philadelphia region, Lehigh Valley and Northeastern Pennsylvania and southern New Jersey, is reimagining health care and higher education to create unparalleled value. Jefferson is more than 65,000 people strong, dedicated to providing the highest-quality, compassionate clinical care for patients; making our communities healthier and stronger; preparing tomorrow's professional leaders for 21st-century careers; and creating new knowledge through basic/programmatic, clinical and applied research. Thomas Jefferson University, home of Sidney Kimmel Medical College, Jefferson College of Nursing, and the Kanbar College of Design, Engineering and Commerce, dates back to 1824 and today comprises 10 colleges and three schools offering 200+ undergraduate and graduate programs to more than 8,300 students. Jefferson Health, nationally ranked as one of the top 15 not-for-profit health care systems in the country and the largest provider in the Philadelphia and Lehigh Valley areas, serves patients through millions of encounters each year at 32 hospitals campuses and more than 700 outpatient and urgent care locations throughout the region. Jefferson Health Plans is a not-for-profit managed health care organization providing a broad range of health coverage options in Pennsylvania and New Jersey for more than 35 years.

Responsibilities

• Implement and maintain IAM solutions, including authentication, authorization, privileged access management, and identity governance, ensuring reliability, scalability, and compliance.
• Apply established policies and procedures to administer user and privileged access, ensuring compliance with best practices, including zero trust and least privilege models.
• Collaborate with team members to share information, interpret requirements, and resolve issues related to identity and access management.
• Contribute to the continuous improvement of IAM processes, systems, or products by identifying and implementing enhancements that positively impact job area performance.
• Monitor access controls and respond to access-related security incidents, performing initial analysis and recommending system adjustments or enhancements to improve job area effectiveness.
• Develop and update technical documentation to support ongoing IAM operations and ensure knowledge transfer across teams and follow robust DevOps processes.
• ORGANIZATIONAL IMPACT: Works to achieve operational objectives within job area with direct impact on job area results. Sets objectives for own job area to meet the objectives or goals of projects and assignments. May contribute to technical results on larger, moderately complex projects, products, or systems.
• INNOVATION & COMPLEXITY: Responsible for making adjustments or recommended enhancements in systems and processes to solve problems or improve effectiveness of job area. Implements and executes on technical initiatives and solutions. Problems and issues faced are general, and may require understanding of broader set of issues but typically are not complex. Problems may require understanding of other job areas. Problems are typically solved through drawing from prior experiences, with analysis of the issue.
• COMMUNICATION & INFLUENCE: Communicates with contacts typically within job area on matters that involve obtaining or providing information requiring some explanation or interpretation in order to reach agreement. May work to influence parties within own job area at an operational level.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s Degree in a science, technology, engineering, or math discipline (required)
• 3 years