Identity and Access Management Administrator

Position Number: 999595

Functional

Title:

Identity and Access Management Administrator

Position Type: Staff

Position Eclass: EP - EHRA 12 mo leave earning

Located in North Carolina’s third largest city, UNC Greensboro is among the most diverse, learner-centered public research universities in the state, with 18,000 students in eight colleges and schools pursuing more than 150 areas of undergraduate and over 200 areas of graduate study. UNCG continues to be recognized nationally for academic excellence, access, and affordability. UNCG is ranked No. 1 most affordable institution in North Carolina for net cost by the N.Y. Times and No.

1 in North Carolina for social mobility by The Wall Street Journal — helping first-generation and lower-income students find paths to prosperity. Designated an Innovation and Economic Prosperity University by the Association of Public and Land-grant Universities, UNCG is a community-engaged research institution with a portfolio of more than $67M in research and creative activity. The University’s 2,600 staff help create an annual economic impact for the Piedmont Triad region in excess of $1B.

Plan, design, implement and support stable and secure enterprise central and client IT systems infrastructure. ITS Enterprise Systems supports more than 21,000 students, faculty, and staff by administering and/or supporting the campus enterprise server infrastructure, enterprise databases, and client computing infrastructure. All the core technology services offered by the University rely on the successful design, development, implementation, growth, maintenance, and monitoring of the campus systems infrastructure.

The primary purpose of this position is to participate in the technical system design, deployment, and management of ITS and customer identity and access solutions, along with maintaining a coordinated register of centrally managed attribute and role-based access controls. In addition, this position will ideate novel solutions to multi-faceted identity complexes to safeguard critical and confidential information belonging to the university.

This position will participate in the discovery of new technologies and implementation and configuration of systems and applications in support and optimization of Identity Governance and Role-Based Access Control (RBAC). This position will provide knowledge of the interactions between technologies and applications across product lines.

This position examines external and internal technology, long‑term trends, and implications of alternative approaches, and articulates those concepts to other internal staff. This position will utilize in‑depth knowledge of software engineering, cloud technologies, and data engineering to define target architectures, patterns, and processes in support of customer identity and access solutions. This position will lead and/or support tool and technology selection and drive standardization and reuse of industry‑leading technology across the organization.

This position will lead and/or support the evaluation and selection process for application packages to satisfy solution requests and related university needs.

This position collaborates with ITS Enterprise Systems management in setting guidelines and standards to ensure systems are consistent with ITS’ and UNCG’s long‑term strategies. This position provides technical direction to project teams and understands and can explain the interrelationship of multiple concepts, and can translate these concepts, ideas, and situations into clear, understandable, and simple terms.

UNC Greensboro has invested in transforming its Identity and Access Management functions into a strategic program with modern tooling and robust governance. It has selected SailPoint as its foundation to complement Grouper, Entra, and Shibboleth IdP.

This position will participate in the technical system design, deployment, and management of identity and access solutions to implement governance, provisioning, authentication, and distributed management. This position will participate in the design, implementation,…