Security Architect - Identity and Access Management

Position :- Security Architect - Identity and Access Management


Location:- Phoenix AZ , Remote


Job Description


At client, we invest in the humans who build the logic, ideas, and innovations that bring new technologies to life. As a Principal Security Architect, you will be instrumental in bringing innovative ideas to fruition. Your role will be central to the successful integration of disruptive technologies within the organization. As part of the Identity and Access Management team, you will lead to the expansion of the usage of CFG standard identity services and drive improvements across CFG workforce security posture.


We are looking for a technical leader to define, implement, review, advise, and guide implementation of secure architecture for IAM products. A successful candidate will take a strong hands-on role, act as a trusted partner between IAM and business (Engineering, Security, Compliance and Risk to name a few) teams to deliver enterprise level solutions that delight internal customers as well as maintain security consistently across CFG.


You're made ready for a fulfilling career with exciting new challenges and opportunities to stretch yourself. You will be capable of working across multiple technological domains to develop a solution and present the design. Additionally, you will be responsible for providing deep technical knowledge and architectural design mentorship at a platform and portfolio level and will be a key contributing IAM security architect on large/complex projects with a variety of components.


Primary responsibilities include

• Develop and Design Secure platform architectures, ensuring that architecture is consistent with enterprise architecture standards, guidelines and principles.
• Review Architecture and Implementations for consistency to CFG 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 CFG 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 across CFG 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 CFG identity strategies and strengthen the company 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.