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Eaton’s Corporate Sector division is currently seeking an IT Specialist. The IAM Specialist plays a critical role in shaping and securing Eaton's identity and access management landscape. This position is responsible for supporting the end-to-end onboarding of applications into enterprise Identity Governance and Access Management platforms. This role focuses on ensuring that identity-related controls—including provisioning, approval workflows, certification, and role-based access—are implemented consistently and effectively across the organization. The IAM Specialist will work as part of the Agile delivery team, coordinating with application owners, business stakeholders, and security architects to gather requirements, configure solutions, and document processes. The ideal candidate is a strong communicator who can translate business and technical needs into actionable implementation steps. The role also supports operationalizing identity governance strategies, maintains documentation and SOPs, and supports identity governance (IGA) and privileged access management (PAM) processes.
Job Responsibilities
- Serve as a subject matter expert and lead the design, development, and implementation of IAM platforms and systems.
- Execute the onboarding of applications into IGA platforms, including configuration of provisioning, deprovisioning, and access workflows.
- Facilitate requirements gathering sessions with application teams to define access needs, approval chains, and certification cycles.
- Configure role-based access controls (RBAC) and ensure alignment with least privilege principles.
- Support integration efforts with web services, databases, and LDAP directories.
- Maintain and update standard operating procedures (SOPs) and technical documentation for onboarding processes.
- Collaborate with the IGA Architect and other stakeholders to ensure consistent implementation of identity governance policies.
- Provide baseline support for privileged access management tools and processes.
- Troubleshoot onboarding issues and escalate complex problems as needed.
- Configure and fine-tune IAM technologies to align with operational and security requirements.
- Maintain and update platform documentation to ensure system health and compliance.
- Monitor system performance, availability, and capacity; identify gaps and risks in service delivery.
- Configuration, testing, and requirements gathering.
Qualifications
Basic Qualifications:
- Bachelor's Degree from an accredited institution.
- Minimum of 7 years experience within a large corporation IT Business related function.
- 5+ years leading the design, development, and implementation of IAM platforms and enterprise-wide systems.
- Expert level of system/platform expertise with demonstrated leadership of full lifecycle projects.
- Advanced knowledge of functional and technical capability including understanding of core programming and databases.
- Must currently reside within 50 miles of posted location(s). Relocation is not available for this role.
- Must be legally authorized to work in the United States without corporate sponsorship now or in the future.
- This position requires access to export-controlled information. To conform to U.S. Government export regulations applicable to that information, applicant must be a U.S. person, defined as a U.S. citizen or national, U.S. lawful permanent resident (green card holder), refugee under 8 U.S.C. 1157, or asylee under 8 U.S.C. 1158.
Preferred Qualifications:
- Preferred degree in Engineering, Computer Science, Business, Supply Chain or related field. Masters' degree preferred.
- Previous experience leading global IT projects.
- Knowledge of data analysis and visualization tools.
- Familiarity with software development processes and methodologies.
- Excellent communication skills, both written and verbal. Will often work with business analysts, project managers and business teams.
- Good team-oriented interpersonal skills; capable of facilitating sessions and coaching others as needed.
- Ability to work under pressure and meet tight deadlines.
Technical knowledge
- Certifications in IGA solutions (e.g., Saviynt Certified Advanced IGA Professional, SailPoint Certified Identity Security Administrator).
- Experience designing solutions to manage privileged access using PAM tools like Saviynt PAM, CyberArk, Thycotic.
- Strong understanding of modern authentication/authorization standards (SAML, OIDC) and troubleshooting.
- Experience in non-human account lifecycle management.
- Additional certifications such as CISSP, CISM, or vendor-specific IAM credentials are desirable.
- Working knowledge of web services, databases, and LDAP integrations.
- Ability to produce clear and actionable documentation and SOPs.
- Experience working in Agile environments.
Skills
Soft skills
- Ability to facilitate business analysis sessions and translate requirements into technical configurations.
- Comfortable working with both technical and non-technical audiences.
- Good judgment, time management, and decision-making skills.
- Ability to collaborate on large-scale cybersecurity initiatives.
- Patience and empathy when working with developers, testers, and cybersecurity experts.
- Experience working with diverse, global cultures and security teams.
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Additional information
- Seniority level: Mid-Senior level
- Employment type: Full-time
- Job function: Other
- Industries: Appliances, Electrical, and Electronics Manufacturing