Senior Business Analyst

This is a fully remote position, open to applicants in United States.

📋 Description

• Take charge of requirements, process design, and ensuring stakeholder alignment for IGA programs.

• Convert audit findings, compliance requirements, and business access practices into a structured identity model.

• Conduct a current-state assessment of access requests, approvals, applications, entitlements, authoritative sources, joiner-mover-leaver processes, and governance deficiencies.

• Gather and document requirements for identity lifecycle automation, access flows, certification, SoD policy, and delegated administration.

• Lead role engineering workshops and verify role mining outputs, role definitions, hierarchies, entitlement descriptions, and risk evaluations.

• Manage application onboarding, including intake, connector feasibility, data and attribute mapping, owner identification, and runbook creation.

• Design certification campaigns, addressing reviewer models, scope, frequency, escalation procedures, revocation, remediation, and fatigue mitigation strategies.

• Align program controls with audit and compliance drivers, generating evidence artifacts for auditors.

• Write functional specifications, user stories, acceptance criteria, and maintain requirements traceability.

• Oversee UAT planning, development of test cases, coordination with business testers, defect triage, and readiness for sign-off.

• Create change-management resources, training materials, communications, and job aids; monitor adoption rates.

• Generate program reports for client steering committees, covering onboarding, campaign completion, account reduction, SoD trends, and access-request cycle times.

⛳️ Requirements

• Certification in CBAP, PMI-PBA, or ITIL is required.

• Vendor functional certification on a primary IGA platform is necessary.

• Hands-on experience with configuration in SailPoint, Saviynt, or Okta admin consoles is essential.

• Proficiency in SQL for entitlement and access data analysis is required.

• Experience with role mining or identity data-quality tools is preferred.

• Skills in reporting and dashboard creation using Power BI or Tableau are necessary.

• Experience in regulated industries such as financial services, healthcare, or public sector is required.

• Previous involvement in a legacy IGA migration or post-audit remediation program is preferred.

• Preferred: 7–10+ years of experience in business analysis or consulting, with at least 4 years focused on IAM/IGA programs.

• Preferred: Strong understanding of IGA concepts, including identity lifecycle, entitlements, RBAC, segregation of duties, access certification, provisioning, orphan and dormant accounts, and privileged account governance.

• Preferred: Experience in authoring BRDs/FRDs, user stories, acceptance criteria, BPMN or swimlane process mapping, and traceability matrices.

• Preferred: Knowledge of SOX ITGC access controls, least privilege, segregation of duties, and audit/compliance literacy.

• Preferred: Functional exposure to SailPoint, Saviynt, or Okta Identity Governance.

• Preferred: Experience in workshop facilitation and creating executive-level written deliverables.

• Preferred: Agile delivery experience using Jira or Azure Boards and ownership of UAT through to sign-off.

• Preferred: Consulting experience with client stakeholders.

🏝️ Benefits

• Full-time position available with Gruve.

• Culture that fosters innovation, collaboration, and continuous learning.

• A diverse and inclusive work environment.