Identity Remediation & Onboarding Lead

Overview

Point72 is a leading global alternative investment firm that is constantly evolving its IT infrastructure. The Technology team embraces open-source solutions and enterprise agile methodologies, fostering an environment for professional development and innovation. This role is critical to their cybersecurity efforts, focusing on improving identity hygiene and access management across the firm.

Key Responsibilities

• Lead and manage enterprise-wide identity remediation projects, overseeing a team of analysts to address orphaned accounts, stale access, excessive privileges, and unmanaged service accounts, aiming for measurable risk reduction.
• Collaborate with the Head of AIM Governance to translate strategic security objectives into actionable remediation and onboarding plans.
• Provide technical guidance and hands-on support for cleaning up accounts, entitlements, and privileged access, ensuring compliance with firm standards and least-privilege principles.
• Drive enhancements in service account security, including mitigating clear-text credentials, implementing credential vaulting and rotation, validating ownership, and enforcing lifecycle controls.
• Supervise the onboarding of applications and privileged accounts onto the firm’s Identity Governance & Administration (IGA) and Privileged Access Management (PAM) platforms, establishing standardized processes and validation frameworks.
• Improve group and entitlement governance by simplifying complex access structures and aligning them with standardized access models.
• Work closely with application, infrastructure, and engineering teams to implement access modifications and close control gaps.
• Manage operational intake channels and remediation pipelines, ensuring correct prioritization, escalation, and stakeholder communication, while developing repeatable remediation playbooks.
• Track and report key remediation metrics and risk reduction outcomes, maintaining comprehensive audit documentation.
• Identify and implement automation opportunities, leveraging AI tools and analytics to scale remediation efforts and enhance operational efficiency.

Required Skills

• Minimum of seven years of experience in IAM, identity operations, information security, or related technology fields.
• Demonstrated success in leading identity remediation, hygiene, or access risk reduction programs within complex enterprise settings.
• Experience managing global or distributed teams, including performance management and workload prioritization.
• Strong working knowledge of IGA platforms like SailPoint, specifically in application onboarding, entitlement management, and remediation workflows.
• Hands-on experience with Privileged Access Management (PAM) solutions such as CyberArk, including service account onboarding and credential security practices.
• Deep understanding of least-privilege principles, service account risk management, and strategies for reducing administrative access.
• Experience supporting audits and regulatory reviews, including executive-level reporting and providing defensible control evidence.
• Robust program management skills, with the ability to manage multiple concurrent initiatives and deliver measurable outcomes.
• Excellent communication skills to effectively engage technical teams and senior stakeholders.
• Proficiency in leveraging automation, analytics, or AI tools to improve identity operations efficiency.
• Commitment to the highest ethical standards.

Benefits

• Comprehensive health care benefits.
• Maternity, adoption, and related leave policies.
• Generous paternity and family care leave policies.
• Employee Assistance Program and mental wellness initiatives.
• Transportation support.
• Tuition assistance.

Additional Information

Point72 is dedicated to attracting and retaining top talent by fostering an investor-led culture and supporting the long-term growth of its employees. The firm emphasizes continuous improvement and intellectual curiosity within its technology division.