Lead Engineer, Identity Management

The Lead Engineer, Identity Management is responsible for the design, engineering, and operational excellence of Sony Pictures Entertainment’s (SPE) enterprise Identity and Access Management (IAM) ecosystem, with a primary focus on Okta Identity Governance, Identity Lifecycle Management, Security Operations, and Identity Compliance initiatives. This role leads the end-to-end engineering, configuration, and maintenance of SPE’s Identity Governance and Administration (IGA) platform, ensuring secure, compliant, and efficient management of digital identities across all user populations. The position requires deep expertise in Okta and its governance, access, and lifecycle capabilities, as well as the ability to define and enforce identity standards and policies that align with enterprise security and compliance objectives. This role will be responsible for providing ongoing support, request fulfillment of the SPE’s IAM platform services, and provide escalation and support to internal application teams and IAM team members. This role also focuses on analyzing emerging authentication technologies to design and implement secure, intuitive, scalable, and reliable Access Management solutions that support SPE’s both internal and external users. This role must have experience with Okta Identity Management platform. Core Responsibilities Lead the design, implementation, and operat [... source excerpt omitted ...] d compliance controls. Partner with business and security stakeholders to develop and enforce identity governance policies, ensuring adherence to corporate, regulatory, and audit requirements. Oversee access certification campaigns, entitlement reviews, and identity attestation processes to maintain least-privilege access and compliance posture. Develop detailed architecture, standards, design, and implementation documentation. Manage directory services, including user provisioning, synchronization, and role-based access control (RBAC) models. Participate in or lead troubleshooting and incident resolution of complex high severity incidents. Plan and manage project tasks, schedu [... source excerpt omitted ...] regarding audit findings, adherence to compliance and organizational change. Responsible for working to resolve Okta system issues escalated within the service level agreement. Qualifications Bachelor’s degree or equivalent applied experience 8+ years of experience as an Identity Engineer/Architect or similar role 8+ Years of direct experience with large scale enterprise level Identity Access Management (IAM) build and engineering. 6+ years of experience with implementing IAM solutions. 5+ years in software development (experience developing web applications), preferably in an agile SaaS environment. Proven experience designing and managing Okta Identity Governance and Adminis