Manager, IT Security Engineering, IAM

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At Gilead, we’re creating a healthier world for all people. For more than 35 years, we’ve tackled diseases such as HIV, viral hepatitis, COVID-19 and cancer – working relentlessly to develop therapies that help improve lives and to ensure access to these therapies across the globe. We continue to fight against the world’s biggest health challenges, and our mission requires collaboration, determination and a relentless drive to make a difference.   Every member of Gilead’s team plays a critical role in the discovery and development of life-changing scientific innovations. Our employees are our greatest asset as we work to achieve our bold ambitions, and we’re looking for the next wave of passionate and ambitious people ready to make a direct impact.   We believe every employee deserves a great leader. People Leaders are the cornerstone to the employee experience at Gilead and Kite. As a people leader now or in the future, you are the key driver in evolving our culture and creating an environment where every employee feels included, developed and empowered to fulfil their aspirations. Join Gilead and help create possible, together. Job Description   Essential Job Functions: • Owns enterprise IAM control effectiveness, ensuring identity governance, certification, and access controls are consistently enforced, measurable, and audit-ready across systems and data domains. • Leads and governs DOJ Data Security Program (DSP) IAM controls, including definition, implementation, and ongoing validation of access restrictions protecting sensitive and regulated data. • Drives and matures access certification programs, including campaign strategy, execution oversight, reviewer accountability, exception governance, and remediation enforcement. • Owns role-based access control (RBAC) strategy and execution, including role engineering, role lifecycle management, and alignment to least privilege and compliance requirements. • Establishes and enforces standardized access models and certification scope across enterprise and cloud applications, ensuring consistency and scalability. • Oversees identity lifecycle management (joiner, mover, leaver) as a controlled process, ensuring timely and accurate provisioning aligned with authoritative data sources and governance policies. • Provides leadership over IAM operations, including access request fulfillment, incident/problem management, and operational issue resolution across integrated platforms. • Acts as service owner for IAM platforms, accountable for availability, performance, control enforcement, and continuous service improvement. • Manages managed service providers and vendors supporting IAM, including defining SLAs/KPIs, monitoring performance, and enforcing delivery accountability. • Drives onboarding of applications into IAM platforms with a focus on RBAC alignment, certification inclusion, and governance standardization, reducing control gaps. • Ensures IAM processes and controls support audit, compliance, and regulatory readiness, including GxP and 21 CFR Part 11 requirements. • Partners with Security, Architecture, and business stakeholders to evolve IAM control frameworks and improve governance effectiveness across the enterprise. • Identifies and implements improvements to IAM processes, tools, and operating models to enhance control maturity, operational efficiency, and scalability. Required Skills & Job Qualifications: • Bachelor’s degree plus 6+ years of IT and/or Information Security experience. • Strong experience owning and operating IAM governance and control functions, including certification and RBAC at enterprise scale. • Hands-on experience with IAM platforms such as SailPoint IdentityIQ, SailPoint Identity Security Cloud, or Saviynt. • Deep experience with ac

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