Senior Manager, SailPoint Engineering; Global Security

Position: Senior Manager, SailPoint Engineering (Global Security)

Job Description

What is the opportunity?The Senior Manager, SailPoint Engineering will lead a team of engineers responsible for building, scaling, and securing RBC’s enterprise identity lifecycle and access management platforms. This role is pivotal in driving RBC’s digital identity strategy, ensuring compliance with regulatory standards, and enabling seamless, secure access for employees, customers, and partners.

As a leader, you will be accountable for solution design, engineering standards, operational excellence, and delivery of SailPoint capabilities across the bank. You will collaborate with security, compliance, and application teams to deliver innovative identity solutions at scale.
What will you do?

Leadership & Strategy
Lead and mentor a team of SailPoint engineers, fostering a culture of innovation, accountability, and continuous learning.

Define the engineering roadmap for SailPoint Access Manager, aligning with RBC’s IAM strategy and enterprise architecture.

Partner with cybersecurity, compliance, and business stakeholders to ensure solutions meet regulatory, security, and operational requirements.

Engineering & Delivery
Oversee design, development, integration, and deployment of SailPoint Access Manager capabilities (identity lifecycle, provisioning, access requests, certification campaigns).Drive automation and standardization of IAM processes to improve reliability, performance, and scalability.

Ensure engineering deliverables are secure by design, with strong controls for data in transit and age release cycles, incident escalations, and production stability for mission-critical IAM services.

Governance & Risk Management
Ensure adherence to RBC’s risk, compliance, and audit frameworks.

Partner with governance teams to provide evidence, metrics, and reporting for regulatory compliance (e.g., SOX, OSFI, FRB/MRA).Proactively identify and remediate technology risks, technical debt, and process gaps.

Collaboration & Stakeholder Engagement
Engage with application custodians, platform teams, and business owners to onboard applications into SailPoint Access Manager.

Work with security architecture and threat management teams to evaluate and implement emerging IAM technologies.

Provide transparent communication to executives, including program health, risks, and delivery outcomes.

What do you need to succeed?
Must-have

Deep expertise in SailPoint Identity Now / Identity

IQ or equivalent IAM platforms.

Strong knowledge of identity lifecycle management, provisioning, entitlements, role-based access control (RBAC), and certification campaigns.

Solid technical foundation in Java, REST APIs, SQL/No

SQL databases, and cloud-native architecture (AWS/Azure).

Proven track record of leading engineering teams, driving large-scale IAM implementations, and managing operational stability.

Excellent communication, stakeholder management, and executive reporting skills.

Bachelor’s degree in computer science, Engineering, or related field.

5+ years of experience in Identity & Access Management (IAM), with at least 3 years in SailPoint engineering or architecture.

5+ years in a technical leadership/management role, with experience managing engineering teams of 3-6 people.

Experience delivering enterprise-grade, high-availability IAM solutions in a regulated industry (financial services preferred).

Nice-to-have

Master’s degree in computer science, Cybersecurity, or related field.

Certifications:

SailPoint Identity

IQ Engineer/Architect, CISSP, CISM, or AWS/Azure Cloud certifications.

Hands-on experience with Privileged Access Management (Cyber Ark), Entra /Azure AD, or Okta.

Exposure to microservices, container orchestration (Docker, Kubernetes), and modern CI/CD pipelines.

Familiarity with AI/ML use cases in IAM (e.g., anomaly detection, identity drift tracking).

Previous experience working in global-scale IAM programs within a top-tier financial institution.

What’s in it for you?
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