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Western Governors University

Senior Manager, Identity and Access Management

Salary$152k – $251k per project
LocationSalt Lake City, UT
Typefull-time
SenioritySenior
DepartmentInformation Security
Company size10,000+ people
First seenOct 7, 2026 · 4d ago
Verified live1d ago
At a glanceSummarised by Seekless from the posting.
Must have14
Own the strategy, architecture, governance, and daily operation of the enterprise IAM program
Lead a team of identity engineers and analysts
Set technical standards other teams build against
Partner with Human Resources, Legal, Privacy, Internal Audit, Infrastructure, and Application Development
Be accountable for the reliability of authentication and other IAM services
Develop program strategy and direction including IAM strategy, capability roadmap, and program priorities
Lead, coach, and develop a team of identity engineers and analysts
Handle identity governance and lifecycle including automated joiner, mover, and leaver processes
Manage authentication and federation including SSO, MFA, passwordless authentication, and federation
Oversee privileged and non-human identity including credential vaulting, session control, and JIT elevation
Run identity security operations including threat detection and response
Ensure service reliability including availability, resilience, and disaster recovery for IAM services
Manage policy, compliance, and audit including access control policy and standards under FERPA, GLBA, and PCI DSS
Develop architecture and standards including IAM reference architecture and integration patterns
About the company
If you’re passionate about building a better future for individuals, communities, and our country—and you’re committed to working hard to play your part in building that future—consider WGU as the next step in your career.
Driven by a mission to expand access to higher education through online, competency-based degree programs, WGU is also committed to being a great place to work for a diverse workforce of student-focused professionals. The university has pioneered a new way to learn in the 21st century, one that has received praise from academic, industry, government, and media leaders. Whatever your role, working for WGU gives you a part to play in helping students graduate, creating a better tomorrow for themselves and their families.
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The salary range for this position takes into account the wide range of factors that are considered in making compensation decisions including but not limited to skill sets; experience and training; licensure and certifications; and other business and organizational needs.
At WGU, it is not typical for an individual to be hired at or near the top of the range for their position, and compensation decisions are dependent on the facts and circumstances of each case. A reasonable estimate of the current range is:
Grade: Management Technical 714Pay Range: $151,800.00 - $250,500.00
Job Description
As Senior Manager, Identity and Access Management, you own the strategy, architecture, governance, and daily operation of the enterprise IAM program within Information Security. The scope is the full program: identity governance and administration, access management and federation, privileged access management, identity threat detection and security posture management, and enterprise certificate lifecycle services. It spans every population the university serves — workforce, students and learners, external partners, and the fast-growing set of non-human identities, including service accounts, enterprise secrets, and AI agents.
You will lead a team of identity engineers and analysts, set the technical standards other teams build against, and partner with Human Resources, Legal, Privacy, Internal Audit, Infrastructure, and Application Development. You will also be accountable for the reliability of authentication and other IAM services, which the university treats as tier-one dependencies.
What You’ll Own
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Program strategy and direction. The IAM strategy, capability roadmap, and program priorities, along with the business case and executive sponsorship behind them.
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Team leadership. Leading, coaching, and developing a team of identity engineers and analysts, including hiring, goal setting, and performance management.
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Identity governance and lifecycle. Automated joiner, mover, and leaver processes driven by authoritative human resources, student, and affiliate systems of record; the enterprise identity data model and registry of record; role and entitlement design; separation-of-duties policy; and access certification through closed-loop remediation.
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Authentication and federation. Single sign-on, multi-factor and passwordless authentication, federation with partners and peer institutions, and accessible authentication and account recovery paths for every population the university serves.
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Privileged and non-human identity. Credential vaulting, session control, just-in-time elevation, break-glass procedures, and reduction of standing privilege — extended to service accounts, enterprise secrets, and the authorization boundaries of AI agents and autonomous workloads.
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Identity security operations. Identity threat detection and response, identity security posture management, remediation of permission drift and orphaned accounts, and the identity lead role during security incident response.
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Service reliability. Availability, resilience, and disaster recovery for authentication and other IAM services, including defined service levels and tested failover.
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Policy, compliance, and audit. Access control policy and standards, identity governance and exception adjudication, least-privilege access under FERPA, GLBA, and PCI DSS, control mapping against the NIST Cybersecurity Framework and NIST SP 800-53, and audit and assessor response.
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Architecture and standards. IAM reference architecture, technical standards, and integration patterns, including review and approval of new identity designs proposed by project and application teams.
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