Manager Identity Governance & Role Based Access at Sanlam Group

What will you do?

• Responsible for managing and overseeing the people, processes and technologies delivering Sanlam's Identity Governance and Role Based Access Platforms & Services.

What will make you successful in this role?

• Accountable for implementing and operating Identity and Role Based Access Platforms & Services in accordance with the business's reliability and capacity requirements.
• Collaborate with stakeholders, including business leaders, project managers, developers and architects to understand requirements and constraints.
• Active engagement with technology partners to deliver an integrated solution across platforms.
• Collaborate with Security Architecture as is applicable to IAM and Role Based Access platforms and services.
• Design and implement procedures and best practices in Identity Governance and Administration (IGA).
• Accountable for access attestation / recertification platforms & integration.
• Research and recommend policies and procedures to protect information assets from unauthorized or accidental modification, destruction or disclosure. 
• Stay up to date with the latest industry trends, technology, emerging threats, and best practices in IGA, RBAC and security.
• Responsible for Appointing, developing, and retaining IGA and Role based Access talent.
• Ensure appropriate standards, patterns, best practices and operational maturity models are in place and monitored.
• Oversee IGA/RBAC Product Development Lifecycle.   Continuously improve and refine processes, procedures and system development life cycle frequently to deliver business value to the business.
• Responsible for implementing and maturing Agile and DevOps tooling and practices for the RBAC/IGA environment.
• Prioritize efforts with cross-functional teams.

Qualifications

• Matric
• A relevant tertiary qualification
• AWS Certified Solutions Architect (preferred) or Microsoft Azure Solutions Architect Expert.

Knowledge and Experience

Minimum:

• Experience with leading and managing a team.
• Experience with working in a hybrid- and multi-cloud environment (AWS preferred) and cloud technologies (AWS & Azure technologies preferred).
• Minimum of 7 years of experience in technology roles.
• Minimum of 5 years experience in solution architecture and systems design.
• Proven experience delivering and managing IGA, Access Management & authorization solutions (RBAC, PBAC, ABAC, IDP) , Identity Governance and/or Identity and Access Management technologies.
• Experience in working in an Agile environment.
• Experience in cloud security concepts.
• Understanding of Cloud technologies and best practices, Networking in Public and Hybrid Cloud environments, Network protocols, network architecture and security.
• Experience with operating and engineering solutions in a Cloud-focussed organization.
• Understanding of virtualization technologies, such as VMWare, Docker, and Kubernetes.
• Understanding of Security Architecture concepts including encryption, authentication, database security, Identity Providers, Enterprise single sign-on (SSO), Federated SSO, multi-factor authentication, API security.
• Knowledge of JSON templates, PowerShell, CLI’s, Shell, Python.
• Proven programming and automation experience. (Python as a minimum, Any of C#, Java, GoLang or C++ in addition preferred)

Preferable:

• Enterprise experience in IGA on SailPoint IdentityNow, SailPoint Identity Security Cloud or NetIQ Identity Governance.
• Exposure to or understanding of Project Management Principles
• Working in a DevOps environment (including proven CI/CD experience with technologies such as GitLab or Github, Nexus and others).
• Proven experience in delivering long-term, repeatable IaC solutions into an overall CI/CD process.
• Proven experience working with Azure DevOps Services.
• Proven experience in deploying and configuring Cloud Services using Terraform

Skills

• Strong leadership and influencing skills.
• Analytical in nature
• Ability to negotiate and positively influence others.
• Ability to effectively deal with conflict situations and complexity. 
• High level of emotional intelligence
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills
• Excellent facilitations skills
• Networking skills
• Applying technologies
• Conceptual thinker
• Risk management.
• Change management.
• Develop and implement strategy.
• Interpersonal skills, ability to engage with senior business stakeholders.
• Ability to accept accountability for actions and decisions. 
• Problem solving skills.
• Interpersonal & Relationship management skills
• Planning, organizing and coordination skills