Principal IAM/PAM Security Architect

This position is listed on behalf of a partner company, who manages all applications and next steps. Our partner is looking for a Principal IAM/PAM Security Architect based in the United States.

The Principal IAM/PAM Security Architect will shape enterprise security architecture across a complex, multi-domain identity environment.
You’ll define standards spanning Active Directory, Microsoft Entra ID, Okta, and major cloud platforms including AWS, Azure, GCP, and OCI.
The role combines strategic architecture with hands-on technical leadership across identity, privileged access, and secrets governance.
You’ll lead enterprise PAM initiatives, establish secure controls for privileged accounts, and strengthen the protection of sensitive credentials and secrets.
A key focus will be defining emerging standards for AI agents and other non-human identities as enterprise adoption of agentic technologies evolves.
You’ll collaborate with identity, cloud, application, security, and engineering teams to create controls that are scalable, consistent, and audit-ready.
This is a high-impact remote opportunity for an experienced security architect who can turn complex identity challenges into practical enterprise standards.

Accountabilities

• Define and maintain enterprise security architecture and standards across Active Directory, Microsoft Entra ID, Okta, and multi-cloud identity environments, covering authentication, authorization, and identity lifecycle controls.
• Serve as the architectural authority for identity security decisions, aligning platform, cloud, and application teams with enterprise standards.
• Lead architecture reviews and risk assessments for new identity integrations, platform migrations, and mergers and acquisitions.
• Establish enterprise standards for  Agentic Identity , including governance, lifecycle management, authentication, authorization, provisioning, scoped entitlements, and deprovisioning for AI agents and other non-human identities.
• Monitor developments in agentic AI and non-human identity technologies and advise leadership on emerging security risks, standards, and vendor capabilities.
• Define security requirements and lead the enterprise implementation of the Delinea PAM platform, including Secret Server and Privilege Manager.
• Design privileged access controls based on least privilege, just-in-time and just-enough administration, session monitoring, and credential rotation across on-premises and cloud environments.
• Oversee onboarding of privileged accounts and systems and ensure PAM controls produce audit-ready evidence aligned with frameworks such as SOX, HIPAA, PCI DSS, and ISO 27001.
• Establish and maintain enterprise secrets governance covering API keys, OAuth/OATH tokens, service account credentials, certificates, vaulting, rotation, and secure distribution.
• Drive the identification and remediation of hardcoded, unmanaged, or exposed secrets across source code, configuration environments, and CI/CD pipelines.
• Develop metrics and reporting that measure secrets governance maturity, compliance, and remediation progress.
• Participate in and help lead architecture review boards, governance forums, and risk committees focused on identity and privileged access.
• Maintain reference architectures, security standards, roadmaps, and supporting documentation for identity, PAM, and secrets governance.
• Advise technical and business stakeholders on identity risk and control design for new initiatives while mentoring engineers responsible for implementing identity, PAM, and secrets solutions.
• Support strategic initiatives and special projects related to enterprise security architecture as required.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in a technology-related discipline or equivalent professional experience.
• 8+ years of experience in identity and access management, privileged access management, security architecture, or related security roles within large and complex enterprise environments.
• Demonstrated experience designing and implementing security standards across hybrid identity environments involving Active Directory, cloud IAM, and SaaS identity providers.
• Hands-on experience with an enterprise PAM platform at an architecture or lead engineering level; Delinea experience is strongly preferred.
• Strong expertise with Active Directory, including multi-domain and multi-forest architectures, as well as Microsoft Entra ID and Okta, including federation, conditional access, and hybrid identity synchronization.
• Strong understanding of cloud IAM across AWS, Azure, GCP, and OCI, including IAM roles and policies, workload identity, federation, and cross-cloud access patterns.
• Experience with AI agent architectures, service identities, workload identities, and emerging approaches to non-human identity governance.
• Hands-on experience with Delinea Secret Server and Privilege Manager, along with broader secrets-management technologies such as HashiCorp Vault, AWS Secrets Manager, Azure Key Vault, or GCP Secret Manager.
• Strong knowledge of authentication and authorization protocols, including Kerberos/NTLM, LDAP/LDAPS, SAML/OIDC, OAuth 2.0, RADIUS/TACACS+, PKI/certificates, and MFA.
• Experience applying security and compliance frameworks such as SOX, HIPAA, PCI DSS, and ISO 27001 to identity, privileged access, and secrets controls.
• Experience using PowerShell, Python, and REST APIs to automate identity, PAM, and secrets lifecycle processes.
• Familiarity with CI/CD pipelines and infrastructure-as-code technologies such as Terraform, ARM, and CloudFormation.
• Exceptional analytical and architectural problem-solving abilities, with the capacity to translate complex multi-domain identity environments into clear, scalable standards.
• Strong communication and stakeholder-management skills, with the ability to explain architecture, risk, and security decisions to both technical and business audiences.
• Ability to work independently, maintain focus, interpret complex information, assess risks, and make timely decisions.
• Relevant security certifications such as CISSP, CISM, SABSA, or CCSP are preferred.
• Ability to maintain a dedicated, secure remote workspace with reliable high-speed internet connectivity.

Benefits

• Base salary ranging from $160,000 to $190,000 per year , depending on experience, education, skills, certifications, and business needs.
• Eligibility for a discretionary bonus.
• Remote work opportunity within the United States.
• Medical, dental, and vision insurance.
• Disability and life insurance coverage.
• 401(k) savings plan.
• Paid family leave.
• 9 paid holidays per year.
• 17–27 days of paid time off (PTO), depending on level and length of service.
• Comprehensive benefits designed to support a wide range of personal and family needs.
• Opportunity to work on enterprise-scale identity, privileged access, secrets governance, and emerging AI identity challenges.

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