What Will You Be Doing?

The Senior Manager of Identity & Access Governance (IAG) at Frontier Airlines oversees the critical function of Identity Access Governance within the Cybersecurity team. In this role, the manager leads a team of resources responsible for the oversight and support of processes related to authentication, authorization, profile management, and recertification processes. The manager will drive the maturity of the IAG program by implementing best practices and increasing adoption through onboarding technology platforms and refining processes. The manager will serve as the primary point of contact for access provisioning, governance, and administrative needs across the organization. The candidate will work on leading and expanding the adoption of a corporate Identity Governance and Administration (IGA) solution.

The IAG Sr Manager will promote a centralized access management architecture as well as present automation of provisioning and governance for current and newly integrated applications. Candidate will ensure that business partners, contractors, and employees have the right access to the right systems at the right times for the right reasons. The role will actively maintain internal and external relationships with stakeholders to support identity-related cybersecurity initiatives.

Essential Functions

• Provide organizational and technical leadership on identity and access management function.
• Design, deliver, and execute on Identity and Access Governance (IAG) vision and roadmap.
• Implement IAG program management, governance, and lead technical teams to ensure alignment with strategy and vision.
• Support development and implementation of security policies, procedures, and documented security controls.
• Manage and oversee control performance of user access reviews for key systems and applications in the environment (standard and privileged users).
• Manage and oversee performance of role review and segregation of duties control functions.
• Integrate and manage automated IGA solution that supports privileged and non-privileged user access re-certification campaigns.
• Manage a combination of onshore/offshore team members, assuring identity-related tasks are completed timely and effectively.
• Closely collaborate with Internal and External Audit functions, to assure identity program and controls are operating effectively to meet compliance requirements.
• Assure appropriate SDLC and change-related controls are followed when implementing IGA solutions or identity enhancements.
• Support the onboarding of access-related controls and recurring testing on regulated applications (e.g., SOX, TSA, PCI).
• Establish and enforce control implementation of password and account lockout policies for user and consumer systems/applications.
• Support requirements and implementation of a commercial-facing consumer single sign-on (multi-factor) capability.
• Partner with key stakeholders to develop requirements to design and implement compelling Identity and Access Management (IAM)/Identity Governance & Access (IGA) solutions aligning to corporate strategic goals.
• Conduct discovery workshops and interview business owners for gap analysis and propose best practices and future state.
• Partner and collaborate with business, cybersecurity, systems/network engineering, security administrators, and application owners to prioritize, develop, and deliver identity & access standards, best practices, architecture, and systems to ensure access controls across the enterprise.
• Manage end-to-end delivery of projects with hands-on involvement in development and configuration of IAM/IGA solutions.
• Manage the design and implementation for an enterprise IAM/IGA solution, factoring feeds/interfaces for HR systems, contractor management systems, Active Directory, IT Service Management tools, and downstream applications.
• Oversee Privileged Identity Access (PIM) and Privilege Access Management (PAM) efforts.
• Ensure IAM solutions are meeting security and business objectives and outcomes by establishing metrics that lead to improvement enhancements.
• Stay abreast of current business and industry trends relevant to the industry.
• Monitor progress, manage risk, and ensure key stakeholders are kept informed about progress and expected outcomes.
• Support M&A activities, ensuring that appropriate access control due diligence reviews are performed, risks identified, and mitigation plans are enacted with the appropriate teams.
• Acts as a role model and positive coach/mentor to develop team members in accordance with Frontier behaviors and principles.
• Performs other related duties as assigned.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in computer science, information systems, or related technical field
• 5+ years of experience in Identity and Access Management (IAM).
• 5+ years of operational experience with ongoing maintenance of Active Directory, Identity and Access Management (IAM) solutions, and/or User Account Management platforms.
• 4+ years of experience configuring and implementing packaged or custom IAM solutions, such as: Saviynt, SailPoint, ForgeRock, or equivalent tool.
• 5+ years of experience with control performance on Identity & Access Governance activities: including role-based access control (RBAC) reviews, access request and certification, and password/account lockout reviews.
• 3+ years of experience with direct people management
• 5+ years of experience in highly regulated industry
• Experience with the airline industry a plus.

Knowledge, Skills and Abilities

• Proficient in developing and maintaining policies, standards, and guidance artifacts.
• Expert knowledge in core IAM Domains: Identity Governance and Administration, Privileged Access Management, Authentication, Authorization, Identity Lifecycle Management.
• Hands-on experience designing, implementing, and deploying IAM/IGA solutions in an enterprise environment. Platforms such as Azure AD, Okta, SailPoint, Saviynt, ForgeRock.
• Subject matter expertise for Identity & Access Governance including role-based access control (RBAC), access request and certification.
• Demonstrates extensive understanding of IAM concepts such as directory services, SSO, federation, MFA, provisioning, access certification, roles, and segregation of duties (SOD).
• Demonstratable knowledge of legacy and modern authentication protocol differences (such as RADIUS, SAML, OpenID, Oauth, and LDAP).
• Exceptional consultative and interpersonal skills that have resulted in business relationships of impeccable trust, confidence, and results.
• Exhibit leadership skills required to manage resources as well as projects deliverables.
• Knowledge of industry trends and current and emerging risks.
• Self-directed professional with strong work ethics and excellent organizational skills.
• Strong leadership and negotiation skills with business and technical group.

Equipment Operated

Experience supporting Identity Governance and Administration (IGA) platforms.

Work Environment

Typical office environment, adequately heated and cooled.

Will require being on call for afterhours and weekend support.

Physical Effort

Light physical effort required by handling objects up to 20 pounds occasionally and/or up to 10 pounds frequently.

Supervision Received

General Direction: The incumbent normally receives little instruction on day-to-day work and receives general instructions on new assignments.

Salary Range - $123,462 - $163,873. This posting has a closing date of 9/30/2026, midnight MT.

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