Identity Application Architect

Strong expertise in IAM and C IAM architecture, including authentication, authorization, federation, identity lifecycle management, provisioning and deprovisioning, delegated administration, and access governance concepts.

Deep understanding of identity standards and protocols, including OAuth 2.0, OpenID Connect, SAML, SCIM, and related token, session, and federation concepts.

Experience designing customer identity journeys with attention to registration, login, MFA, passwordless options, account recovery, consent, profile management, and user experience.

Experience designing enterprise IAM patterns for role-based access, attribute-based access, entitlement management, least privilege, and segregation of duties.

Strong understanding of identity-related security principles, including session security, secrets protection, API security, bot and fraud considerations, logging, monitoring, threat modeling, and auditability.

Ability to define architecture roadmaps, target states, transition plans, and decision frameworks for identity modernization initiatives.

Experience working across engineering, infrastructure, security, product, and business teams to align requirements and drive implementation outcomes.

Ability to review solution designs and code or configuration patterns at the right level to ensure architectural alignment without owning every implementation detail.

Familiarity with modern software and platform engineering practices, including CI/CD, infrastructure as code, automated testing, observability, and secure development practices.

Demonstrated willingness and ability to adopt AI-assisted engineering tools for code generation, code review, test creation, and developer productivity, using tools such as Claude, GitHub Copilot, Cursor, or similar technologies in a secure and effective manner.

Strong written and verbal communication skills, including the ability to present architecture decisions, tradeoffs, and recommendations to technical and executive stakeholders.

Strong problem-solving skills and the ability to diagnose complex identity, integration, and access issues across distributed systems.

Demonstrated e xperience addressing emerging identity control challenges related to agentic AI, non-human identities, machine identities, and modern IAM governance patterns.