Key Responsibilities
1. Strategic Leadership & Governance
- Define and execute the IAM/IGA strategy aligned with enterprise cybersecurity and digital transformation objectives.
- Establish governance frameworks for identity lifecycle management, RBAC/ABAC, SoD controls, and certification campaigns.
- Develop and maintain IAM roadmaps, investment plans, and KPIs.
- Drive modernization initiatives including migration to SailPoint IdentityNow (if applicable) and cloud-first identity architecture.
2. SailPoint Platform Ownership
- Provide architectural oversight and engineering leadership for SailPoint (IdentityIQ) and File Access Manager (FAM).
- Ensure platform scalability, resilience, performance tuning, and high availability.
- Lead onboarding of enterprise applications (on-prem, SaaS, cloud, legacy systems).
- Oversee connector configurations, rule development (Beanshell/Java), workflows, and custom integrations.
- Manage role modeling, access policies, and entitlement governance frameworks.
3. Identity Lifecycle & Automation
- Implement automated Joiner-Mover-Leaver (JML) processes.
- Integrate HR systems (e.g., Workday), Active Directory, Azure AD, LDAP, cloud platforms (AWS/Azure/GCP), and business-critical applications.
- Reduce manual provisioning through orchestration and API-driven automation.
- Establish measurable SLAs for provisioning and de-provisioning.
4. Compliance, Risk & Audit
- Ensure alignment with regulatory and compliance frameworks (e.g., SOX, GLBA, PCI-DSS, FFIEC, ISO 27001).
- Lead access certification campaigns and remediation processes.
- Partner with Internal Audit and Risk teams to address findings and improve control maturity.
- Maintain documentation, control evidence, and audit-ready posture.
5. Engineering & Operations Management
- Lead, mentor, and scale a team of IAM engineers and architects.
- Implement DevSecOps practices for SailPoint code deployment and change management.
- Establish operational monitoring, incident response processes, and root cause analysis for IAM services.
- Manage vendor relationships and third-party IAM service providers.
6. Stakeholder Engagement
- Partner with Application Owners and Business Units for secure onboarding and access governance.
- Present IAM metrics and risk posture to senior leadership and governance committees.
- Drive cross-functional alignment on identity standards and best practices.
Skills Required
- Experience with SailPoint IdentityIQ and File Access Manager (FAM)
- Strong knowledge of IAM frameworks and compliance regulations
- Experience with DevSecOps practices
- Ability to integrate with HR systems and cloud platforms
Santander Compensation & Benefits Highlights
The following summarizes recurring compensation and benefits themes identified from responses generated by popular LLMs to common candidate questions about Santander and has not been reviewed or approved by Santander.
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Retirement Support — A dollar‑for‑dollar 401(k) match up to 6% of eligible pay and immediate vesting are highlighted as core strengths, supporting long‑term savings. This is reinforced by company‑paid disability and life/AD&D coverage that bolster financial security.
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Leave & Time Off Breadth — Paid time off typically ranges from 18–30 days in the U.S. with 11 paid holidays, plus dedicated volunteer and development time; the UK features a minimum of 25 days with buy/sell options. Some roles also use self‑managed PTO, offering additional flexibility depending on team norms.
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Parental & Family Support — U.S. parental benefits include 8 weeks paid for all parents and a total of 16 weeks paid for birth mothers, with flexibility for reduced hours around childbirth. Caregiver leave and dependent‑care programs add further family support.
Santander Insights
What We Do
Banco Santander (SAN SM, STD US, BNC LN) is a leading commercial bank, founded in 1857 and headquartered in Spain and one of the largest banks in the world by market capitalization. The group’s activities are consolidated into five global businesses: Retail & Commercial Banking, Digital Consumer Bank, Corporate & Investment Banking (CIB), Wealth Management & Insurance and Payments (PagoNxt and Cards). This operating model allows the bank to better leverage its unique combination of global scale and local leadership. Santander aims to be the best open financial services platform providing services to individuals, SMEs, corporates, financial institutions and governments. The bank’s purpose is to help people and businesses prosper in a simple, personal and fair way. Santander is building a more responsible bank and has made a number of commitments to support this objective, including raising €220 billion in green financing between 2019 and 2030. In the first quarter of 2024, Banco Santander had €1.3 trillion in total funds, 166 million customers, 8,400 branches and 211,000 employees.
