Principal Systems Analyst

Hybrid Every other week onsite/5 days in either Merrimack, NH or Smithfield, RI

Our client seeks a Principal Systems Analyst to lead entitlement strategy and identity governance across enterprise platforms. The role will align access models with governance frameworks, support IAM and platform integrations, and maintain audit-ready documentation while partnering with cross-functional teams to mitigate risk and scale securely.

Due to client requirements, applicants must be willing and able to work on a w2 basis. For our w2 consultants, we offer a great benefits package that includes Medical, Dental, and Vision benefits, 401k with company matching, and life insurance.

Rate: $55.00 to $65.00/hr. w2

Responsibilities

• Define and maintain user roles, entitlement groups, and access levels aligned to business functions and security requirements.
• Establish clear naming conventions and taxonomy for entitlements to support scalability.
• Document and maintain user flows for personas requiring authorization across environments.
• Ensure entitlement structures align with security policies, regulatory requirements, and governance frameworks.
• Identify and remediate outdated or excessive entitlements and drive cleanup of unused data and applications.
• Document policies, standards, and approval workflows and maintain accountability with governance bodies.
• Partner with cybersecurity and risk teams to identify, document, and remediate access risks or policy violations.
• Validate technical artifacts for identity federation and ensure correct integration with IAM and platform systems.
• Maintain traceability between business roles and system access while understanding authorization models.
• Provide business and technical requirements for current and future identity and access use cases.
• Coordinate with digital security teams for policy enforcement and technical controls.
• Facilitate cross-functional communication to align stakeholders and support product priorities.
• Maintain accurate records of accounts, roles, and entitlements and enforce RBAC and least privilege.
• Lead access request workflows, approvals, exceptions, and periodic access reviews.
• Ensure identity activities are logged and auditable and prepare compliance reports.
• Document provisioning, de-provisioning, role management policies, and support segregation of duties analysis.
• Use IAG tools to develop dashboards and metrics and deliver training and mentorship on governance policies.
• Perform data mapping across platforms and document end-to-end data flows for access-related integrations.
• Write SQL queries and analyze APIs to validate data exchange, documenting results with the team.
• Translate technical analysis and UI changes into actionable user stories.

Experience Requirements

• Strong project management skills with ability to execute against a roadmap.
• Proficiency in data mapping across multiple platforms.
• Interest in developing subject-matter expertise in enterprise applications and cybersecurity, audits, and compliance.
• Ability to write SQL queries and analyze APIs to validate data exchanges and mappings.
• Technical analysis experience to interrogate system behavior and translate findings into user stories.
• Background in cybersecurity and auditing (preferred).
• Agile delivery and Jira experience (preferred).
• 10+ years of systems analysis with 3–5 years in identity and access management or governance.
• Experience with entitlement hierarchy, RBAC, and audit evidence creation.
• Familiarity with compliance frameworks.
• Proficiency in data analysis and documentation with ability to maintain entitlement organization and classification.
• Stakeholder management and communication skills across business and technical audiences.
• Experience with database structures, Salesforce, certificate management, and federation metadata.
• Scripting or query skills in SQL for reporting.

Education Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in Information Systems, Computer Science, Cybersecurity, or equivalent experience.