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Our client has a remote (EST working hours) contract opportunity for a IAM Security Architect. 

Responsibilities:

• Develop and Design Secure platform architectures, ensuring that the architecture is consistent with enterprise architecture standards, guidelines, and principles.
• Review Architecture and Implementations for consistency with client security standards
• Develop standards, recommendations, requirements, and security guidance in support of business activities
• Evaluate, design, and test IAM technologies to ensure secure, scalable, and cost-effective solutions.
• Guide IAM integration for new tools and systems, including configuration, debugging, and deployment.
• Perform security assessments on projects across multiple client business product lines
• Participate in code and design reviews with teams of software, network, and cloud engineers to ensure that solutions meet enterprise IAM and security standards.
• Collaborate with application teams to guide the direction of designing secure products. 
• Collaborate with other functional teams’ leadership and engineers to ensure solutions align with organizational goals and user needs. 
• Contribute to technology direction, develop architecture, and influence implementation to gain measurable business improvements.
• Stay ahead of industry trends to advise the client on identity strategies and strengthen the company’s security posture.

Qualifications, Education, Certifications, and/or Other Professional Credentials

• 8+ years of professional Security & Identity experience with 5+ years as a Principal Architect
• Experience designing security and identity solutions for 10K+ headcount organizations
• Extensive experience designing and implementing IAM solutions in enterprise environments with strong knowledge of identity lifecycle, access control, authentication, and hybrid cloud security
• Demonstrable experience in leading IAM modernization initiatives, encompassing Active Directory, Entra ID, Single Sign On, MFA, Privileged Identity Management, and Zero Trust.
• Experience with IAM tools such as SailPoint, Okta, CyberArk, HashiCorp, Entra ID, and Active Directory preferred
• Strong working knowledge of regulatory and compliance frameworks, including GDPR, NIST, and ISO 27001, and their application to enterprise identity preferred.
• Familiar with public cloud platforms (e.g., AWS, Entra, GCP) and Continuous Integration/Continuous Delivery (CI/CD) practices preferred.
• Deep understanding of Zero Trust, SD WAN, and SASE approaches and platforms preferred
• Industry certifications like CISSP, CISM, CCSP, AWS, Azure, or GCP highly valued