IT Security Analyst - RBAC

It started with a simple idea: what if surgery could be less invasive and recovery less painful? Nearly 30 years later, that question still fuels everything we do at Intuitive. As a global leader in robotic-assisted surgery and minimally invasive care, our technologies-like the da Vinci surgical system and Ion -have transformed how care is delivered for millions of patients worldwide.

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The problems we solve demand creativity, rigor, and collaboration. The work is challenging, but deeply meaningful-because every improvement we make has the potential to change a life.

If you’re ready to contribute to something bigger than yourself and help transform the future of healthcare, you’ll find your purpose here.

Primary Function of Position

This position is responsible for managing the technical side of our Role-Based Access Control (RBAC) program in support of the organization's business applications. As a Security Analyst, you will partner directly with business application owners to design, build, and maintain role models that support each application's access needs, and will act as an SME for RBAC initiatives, working across business, security, engineering, and operational teams to onboard and govern access for business applications.

Essential Job Duties

• Partner directly with business application owners and IT teams to design and implement role-based access control (RBAC) models tailored to each application's access needs.
• Lead application enrollment into Sailpoint IdentityIQ, defining application-specific roles, entitlements, and provisioning/de-provisioning workflows via REST APIs.
• Perform role mining and role engineering at the application level: analyze entitlements within business applications and group them into business-aligned roles.
• Develop custom workflows, rules, and forms to support application-specific role assignment, approval, and certification processes.
• Act as the primary IAM point of contact for business application teams, translating business access requirements into technical role designs.
• Administer RBAC governance for onboarded business applications, ensuring role catalogs stay current as applications and business needs evolve.
• Identify gaps in application access models - excess access, orphaned entitlements, missing segregation-of-duties (SoD) controls - and drive remediation.
• Support access certification/attestation campaigns for business applications, ensuring role assignments remain accurate and audit ready.
• Implement least-privilege and SoD principles within application-specific role designs, aligning to security best practices.
• Design, integrate, and support IAM/IAG tools and processes as they relate to onboarding and maintain business application access.
• Support Sailpoint IdentityIQ version upgrades and patching as they affect application role/RBAC configurations.
• Work across Sailpoint IdentityIQ modules - LCM, Reporting/Analytics, and Certifications - with emphasis on application-level, role-based reporting.
• Support SSO/MFA-integrated access for business applications (e.g., Okta) as it intersects with role assignments.
• Analyze application access requests to assess risk, applying RBAC and least-privilege principles to define acceptable solutions.
• Develop and monitor KPIs and metrics on role coverage, SoD violations, and certification completion across supported business applications.

Required Skills and Experience

• 5+ years of experience in access governance with a focus on RBAC design for business applications; IAM tool experience (Sailpoint IdentityIQ preferred); Java development or scripting (shell or Perl) a plus.

• Minimum 5 years' experience with application enrollment into an IAM/IAG platform, access controls (RBAC), attestations/certifications, and supporting audit-related activities.

• Experience partnering with business application owners to gather access requirements and translate them into role definitions and entitlement structures.

• Knowledge of identity directory architecture, identity federation, provisioning processes, and single sign-on (SSO).

• Knowledge of core IT technologies and processes (network systems, operating systems, databases, change control) as they relate to business application access.

• Ability to communicate complex access control concepts to diverse audiences, from application owners and technology providers to business leaders.

• Experience with IT audit/assessment/examination, particularly around application access reviews and SoD.

• Demonstrated experience delivering RBAC/role-based access projects across multiple business applications and stakeholder groups.

• Excellent documentation and communication skills.

Required Education and Training

• MS or Bachelor's degree in a technical field (or equivalent additional experience).

Working Conditions

None

Preferred Skills and Experience

Must have Skills

• Identity Access Management Expertise + Role Based Access Controls

Intuitive is an Equal Employment Opportunity Employer. We provide equal employment opportunities to all qualified applicants and employees, and prohibit discrimination and harassment of any type, without regard to race, sex, pregnancy, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, color, age, religion, protected veteran or disability status, genetic information or any other status protected under federal, state, or local applicable laws.

We will consider for employment qualified applicants with arrest and conviction records in accordance with fair chance laws.

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This position may be filled at a different job level than listed here depending on

business need and/or on the selected candidate’s experience, knowledge and skills.

Compensation will be based primarily on the job level at which the role is filled and the

candidate’s qualifications, consistent with applicable law.