Lead Security Engineer

About this role

At Genworth, we empower families to navigate the aging journey with confidence. We are compassionate, experienced allies for those navigating care with guidance, products, and services that meet families where they are. Further, we are the spouses, children, siblings, friends, and neighbors of those that need care—and we bring those experiences with us to work in serving our millions of policyholders each day. 

We apply that same compassion and empathy as we work with each other and our local communities. Genworth values all perspectives, characteristics, and experiences so that employees can bring their full, authentic selves to work to help each other and our company succeed. We celebrate our diversity and understand that being intentional about inclusion is the only way to create a sense of belonging for all associates. We also invest in the vitality of our local communities through grants from the Genworth Foundation, event sponsorships, and employee volunteerism.

Our four values guide our strategy, our decisions, and our interactions: • Make it human. We care about the people that make up our customers, colleagues, and communities. • Make it about others. We do what's best for our customers and collaborate to drive progress.  • Make it happen. We work with intention toward a common purpose and forge ways forward together.  • Make it better.  We create fulfilling purpose-driven careers by learning from the world and each other.

     POSITION TITLE Lead Security Engineer – Identity and Access Management This role is not eligible for employment visa sponsorship.      POSITION LOCATION Lynchburg, VA, Richmond, VA, Remote

This position is available to Virginia residents as Richmond or Lynchburg, VA hybrid in-office applicants or remote applicants residing in states/locations under Eastern or Central Standard Time: Alabama, Arkansas, Connecticut, Delaware, Florida, Georgia, Illinois, Indiana, Iowa, Kansas, Kentucky, Louisiana, Maine, Maryland, Massachusetts, Michigan, Minnesota, Mississippi, Missouri, Nebraska, New Hampshire, New Jersey, New York, North Carolina, North Dakota, Ohio, Oklahoma, Pennsylvania, Rhode Island, South Carolina, South Dakota, Tennessee, Texas,  Vermont, Virginia, Washington DC, West Virginia or Wisconsin.

*Hybrid in-office would be required if you reside within 50 miles of our Richmond or Lynchburg, VA office. Required in-office days are Tuesdays, Wednesdays and Thursdays, with working hours targeting our core business hours of 9am-5pm EST.      YOUR ROLE As an IT Security team member, you’ll play a crucial role in providing hands-on design, best practice implementation, configuration, integration, and deployment of Identity and Access Management products (SailPoint IIQ & other homegrown applications). You will be responsible for adhering to standards and policies for secure implementations, overseeing compliance, and supporting key IT and business stakeholders. As an ideal candidate, you will rely on extensive experience with Identity and Access Management, secure development practices and maintaining and maturing IAM Program.

What you will be doing • Design, implementation, and ongoing support of enterprise Identity and Access Management solutions with a primary focus on SailPoint IdentityIQ and SailPoint Identity Security Cloud. • Engineer and enhance identity lifecycle processes, including joiner, mover, leaver, provisioning, deprovisioning, access requests, certifications, role management, and policy enforcement. • Design, configure, and troubleshoot SailPoint workflows, rules, connectors, access profiles, roles, identity profiles, transforms, and integrations with enterprise systems. • Support migration, modernization, or coexistence efforts between SailPoint IdentityIQ and Identity Security Cloud, ensuring secure, scalable, and maintainable solutions. • Partner with application owners, infrastructure teams, HR, compliance, audit, and business stakeholders to onboard applications and improve identity governance controls.

​ D eliverables / Results

• Reliable, well-documented IAM solutions that support secure access, operational efficiency, and compliance requirements. • Successful onboarding of applications, data sources, and access models into SailPoint platforms. • Improved automation for identity lifecycle management, access fulfillment, certification campaigns, and policy controls. • Technical documentation, runbooks, test evidence, and implementation notes that support audit readiness and long-term operational support.

Impact / Value Add • Strengthen the organization’s security posture by ensuring the right people have the right access at the right time. • Reduce access risk through improved governance, automated controls, timely deprovisioning, and clear certification processes. • Enable business agility by simplifying access requests, approval, and fulfillment processes while maintaining strong security and compliance standards. • Contribute to the maturity of the IAM program by identifying opportunities to streamline legacy processes and improve platform reliability.

Ownership • Own complex IAM engineering work from requirements and design through build, testing, implementation, and production support. • Take accountability for technical quality, secure configuration, documentation, change readiness, and operational handoff. • Proactively identify risks, dependencies, defects, and blockers, and communicate status clearly to leadership and stakeholders.

Collaboration • Work closely with security architecture, IAM operations, application teams, infrastructure, cloud, HR, legal, compliance, audit, and business partners. • Translate business and compliance requirements into practical IAM designs and implementation plans. • Provide technical guidance, mentoring, and knowledge sharing to engineers, administrators, and support teams. ​

What you bring Perspective • A security-first mindset with practical experience balancing risk reduction, user ex

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