Department:
Information Security Administration
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Information Security Engineering and Operations
Position Title:
Director, Identity & Access Management
Job Family Group:
Professional Staff
Job Description Summary:
The One KU Director, Identity & Access Management (IAM) provides strategic vision, operational leadership, and technical direction for enterprise-wide identity and access management systems across the University of Kansas system. This role guides the design, implementation, integration, and ongoing operations of IAM services, ensuring robust security, efficiency, and user experience. The Director oversees the IAM teams at both KU Lawrence and KU Medical Center, aligning initiatives to enterprise goals while fostering collaboration across campuses.
Job Description:
Job Responsibilities:
Strategic and Technical Leadership
- Lead and evolve a comprehensive IAM strategy across OneKU, ensuring alignment with security policies, regulatory requirements, and enterprise objectives.
- Oversee the architecture, design, implementation, and maintenance of IAM platforms including directories, provisioning systems, SSO, MFA, and identity governance.
- Evaluate and implement emerging IAM technologies and frameworks to meet university needs.
Operations and Engineering Oversight
- Provide day-to-day oversight of IAM operations across all environments, ensuring high availability, integrity, and performance of identity services.
- Monitor and resolve operational issues related to account lifecycle management, provisioning/deprovisioning, and authentication.
- Ensure consistency, documentation, and adherence to standards in IAM-related development and system changes.
Project Management and Implementation
- Direct multiple complex IAM projects including integrations with enterprise applications and cloud platforms.
- Collect and define technical and functional requirements, supervise development lifecycles, and ensure timely delivery.
- Promote Agile practices, change management protocols, and project tracking tools.
Team Leadership and Collaboration
- Lead and develop IAM teams across campuses, including mentoring, hiring, performance management, and fostering innovation.
- Promote cross-functional collaboration with cybersecurity, application development, HR, and academic units.
- Build a shared culture of technical excellence and code review/knowledge transfer.
- Develop organizational staffing plans and ensure that employees with the appropriate experience and skills are hired, onboarded, trained, supervised, have individual goals and development plans; Conducts annual performance evaluations and where necessary implement appropriate employee discipline.
Policy, Compliance, and Risk Management
- Develop and maintain IAM-related policies, standards, and procedures.
- Ensure compliance with HIPAA, FERPA, NIST, and other regulatory requirements.
- Support audits and risk assessments by providing documentation and technical expertise.
- Ensure area employees conduct activities in a professional and ethical manner, and in accordance with KUMC Policies and applicable local, state and federal laws and regulations.
- Ensure all work performed by employees in the area is done in a safe and secure manner.
- Direct coordination of area work with other areas of KUMC to ensure integration and support of KUMC goals and objectives.
- Maintain personal level of subject matter expertise necessary to ensure the area activities are carried out on a best practices basis.
- Participate in and/or lead appropriate committees, task force, or other similar activities assuring optimal resource utilization.
- Ensure that necessary electronic data collection, storage and retrieval systems are implemented and used by area personnel in an appropriate fashion.
- Ensure that the area maintains any certifications desired by KUMC to further promote quality education and research.
- Ensure the confidentiality of medical center, employee, and patient information. Handle sensitive data with discretion and in accordance with KUMC policies and legal requirements.
- Maintain the highest standards of integrity, respect, professional conduct, and ethical standards.
This job description is not designed to cover or contain a comprehensive listing of activities, duties or responsibilities that are required of the employee for this job. It is only a summary of the typical functions of the job, not an exhaustive list of all possible job responsibilities, tasks, duties, and assignments. Furthermore, job duties, responsibilities and activities may change at any time with or without notice.
Required Qualifications
Work Experience:
- Four years of experience in computer science, information systems, information security or related field. Education may be substituted for experience on a year for year basis.
- Ten (10) years of progressive IT experience.
- Five (5) years in identity and access management.
- Three (3) years in a supervisory role.
- Expertise in IAM protocols and tools (e.g., LDAP, SAML, OAuth, NetIQ, Okta, Azure AD) as demonstrated by application materials.
- Experience in software development (e.g., Java, C#, or similar), databases (SQL), and web technologies.
- Experience managing complex projects and distributed teams.
Preferred Qualifications
Education:
- Master’s degree in a technical discipline.
Work Experience:
- Experience in a higher education or academic medical center environment.
- Experience with identity governance, automation, and IAM lifecycle tooling.
- Experience with Oracle, Linux/UNIX systems, and middleware technologies.
- Experience in conducting facilitated technical sessions and producing architectural documentation.
Skills
- Project management
- Leadership
- Communication
- Collaboration
- Organization
- Attention to detail
- Problem solving
- Analytical skills
Required Documentation
If selected as a final candidate for this position, you may be required to complete the Association of American of Universities Representations and Warranties document and sign a release of records that will allow the University of Kansas Medical Center to conduct a further background check with former employers. A copy of the Representations and Warranties document can be found here.
Comprehensive Benefits Package:
Coverage begins on day one for health, dental, and vision insurance and includes health expense accounts with generous employer contributions if the employee participates in a qualifying health plan. Employer-paid life insurance, long-term disability insurance, and various additional voluntary insurance plans are available. Paid time off, including vacation and sick, begins accruing upon hire, plus ten paid holidays. One paid discretionary day is available after six months of employment, and paid time off for bereavement, jury duty, military service, and parental leave is available after 12 months of employment. A retirement program with a generous employer contribution and additional voluntary retirement programs (457 or 403b) are available. https://www.kumc.edu/human-resources/benefits.html
Employee Type:
Regular
Time Type:
Full time
Rate Type:
Salary
Compensation Statement:
The pay range listed for this position is determined by our compensation program using market data and salary benchmarking. A combination of factors is considered in making compensation decisions including, but not limited to, education, experience and training, qualifications relative to the requirements of the position, and funding. At the University of Kansas Medical Center, a reasonable estimate for the starting pay range will be the minimum to midpoint of the posted range, taking into account the combination of factors listed above.
Pay Range:
$96,000.00 - $152,000.00
Minimum
$96,000.00
Midpoint
$124,000.00
Maximum
$152,000.00