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Job Summary
As a key member of UMG Global Tech’s Security & Identity organization, the Senior Manager, Identity Governance & Administration leads UMG’s Identity Governance and Administration capability and serves as the enterprise IAM deputy for governance, operating model, roadmap, and execution. This role is accountable for the security, effectiveness, scalability, and continuous improvement of UMG’s IGA processes and platforms, with primary responsibility for Saviynt and related identity-governance capabilities.
This is an identity-security leadership role, not simply an IT operations or account-administration role. The Senior Manager treats identity as a foundational security control and enterprise risk domain. They ensure that identity data, access decisions, entitlements, workflows, lifecycle events, and governance evidence are designed and operated in a way that reduces cyber risk, supports business outcomes, and enables sustainable global operations.
The Senior Manager directly leads the IGA/Saviynt team and mentors leaders and practitioners across UMG’s other identity product functions. The role reports directly to the VP, Security & Identity and works as a peer leader with the Sr. Security & Identity Architect. The Senior Manager owns IGA strategy, operating model, platform outcomes, and control execution, while partnering with the Architect to align IGA capabilities with UMG’s broader identity-security architecture, standards, and technology strategy.
Success requires a balanced business and technical leader who can challenge designs, diagnose complex issues, translate cyber risk into practical decisions, lead through influence, and build trusted relationships with security, technology, business, audit, compliance, HR, application, and regional stakeholders.
What Your Impact Will Be
· Strengthen UMG’s identity-security foundations by improving the quality, ownership, governance, and reliability of identities, accounts, entitlements, access decisions, and lifecycle processes.
· Establish and execute a multi-year IGA roadmap while stabilizing near-term control performance, including User Access Reviews, remediation, evidence, data quality, workflow reliability, and ownership accountability.
· Reduce inappropriate, excessive, stale, orphaned, and otherwise unmanaged access through risk-based governance, automation, clear accountability, and measurable control outcomes.
· Translate business requirements, cyber risk, audit findings, control objectives, and architectural direction into prioritized capabilities, sustainable operating processes, and measurable results.
· Improve the experience of business reviewers, application owners, access approvers, and technology partners while maintaining the rigor required for identity security and auditability.
· Build a high-performing IGA team and strengthen the broader identity organization through mentoring, shared standards, technical leadership, and effective cross-functional partnership.
Job Functions
· Lead the strategy, operating model, roadmap, governance, and day-to-day execution of UMG’s Identity Governance and Administration program.
· Serve as the enterprise IAM deputy to the VP, Security & Identity, helping align identity governance, identity engineering, access management, privileged access, authentication, and related identity product functions around common security outcomes and priorities.
· Directly lead, coach, and…