IAM Architect

IAM ArchitectCompany OverviewA global consumer products organization is seeking an IAM Architect to help advance enterprise identity security across a complex, rapidly evolving technology environment. Based in Los Angeles, California, the organization supports global operations spanning cloud platforms, enterprise applications, infrastructure, and digital customer experiences. This is an opportunity to provide technical leadership while remaining hands-on with the architecture and implementation of modern identity solutions.Role SummaryThe IAM Architect will own and shape identity architecture across workforce IAM, customer identity, privileged access, identity governance, non-human identities, and third-party access. This role translates business, security, and operational requirements into scalable identity solutions while remaining directly involved in design, integration, testing, implementation, and complex troubleshooting. The ideal candidate combines deep IAM expertise with strong technical leadership and a vendor-agnostic approach to solving identity challenges.Key ResponsibilitiesOwn end-to-end architecture for workforce IAM, customer identity, privileged access, identity governance, and non-human identities.Lead technical design reviews and provide architecture guidance to application, infrastructure, cloud, security, and engineering teams.Design, integrate, test, and troubleshoot enterprise IAM solutions from proof of concept through production implementation.Architect identity lifecycle and access controls for employees, contractors, third parties, applications, workloads, and service accounts.Advance access governance through role and entitlement design, certifications, approvals, segregation of duties, and policy enforcement.Design modern authentication and authorization solutions using Zero Trust, least privilege, adaptive access, and phishing-resistant authentication principles.Identify and reduce identity-related risks involving credentials, tokens, sessions, federation, privileged access, and machine identities.Develop vendor-neutral integration patterns across identity providers, cloud IAM, privileged access, governance, security, and service management platforms.Partner with security operations teams to improve identity telemetry, detection capabilities, investigation workflows, and incident response.Automate IAM processes using APIs, scripting, workflow automation, and modern software engineering practices.Additional DetailsWork model: Hybrid three onsite daysHands-on architecture role with significant technical ownership and enterprise-wide influenceOpportunity to shape modern identity security capabilities across human, privileged, customer, workload, and machine identitiesHigh-visibility position partnering across cybersecurity, infrastructure, cloud, application, and business teams