Architect-Tech Management

Headquartered in Southern California, Skechers—the Comfort Technology Company®—has spent over 30 years helping men, women, and kids everywhere look and feel good. Comfort innovation is at the core of everything we do, driving the development of stylish, high-quality products at a great value. From our diverse footwear collections to our expanding range of apparel and accessories, Skechers is a complete lifestyle brand.
The Identity & Access Management (IAM) Architect is a key member of the IAM team. This role shapes and delivers the organization’s global identity architecture across workforce IAM, privileged access, identity governance, customer identities, non-human identities, and non-employee and contingent-worker identities.
The role provides technical direction while remaining directly involved in design, integration, testing, implementation, and complex troubleshooting across cloud, enterprise, application, and security environments.
The architect must recognize exploitable trust relationships and attack paths, understand how adversaries compromise human and nonhuman identities, and design preventive, detective, and responsive controls that materially reduce identity risk. Own end-to-end technical architecture for workforce IAM, customer identity, privileged access, identity governance, non-human identities, and non-employee identities, translating business requirements into resilient solutions
Lead technical design reviews and provide authoritative guidance to IAM, application, infrastructure, cloud, cybersecurity, and business teams
Design, configure, build, integrate, test, and troubleshoot IAM solutions, including proofs of concept and production-ready implementations
Design identity lifecycle and access controls for employees, contractors, third parties, and other contingent workers, including joiner, mover, and leaver processes
Design secure customer identity patterns that protect accounts and sessions while supporting appropriate authentication, authorization, privacy, and user experience
Architect lifecycle, privilege, credential, and monitoring controls for privileged and nonhuman identities, including service accounts, application identities, workloads, secrets, keys, and machine credentials
Advance access governance capabilities including requests, approvals, certifications, role and entitlement design, segregation of duties, and policy enforcement
Threat-model identity architectures and remediate attack paths involving credentials, tokens, sessions, federation trusts, privileged roles, delegated permissions, and nonhuman identities
Integrate identity providers, cloud IAM, access governance, privileged access, security telemetry, zero-trust access, and service-management capabilities using vendor-neutral patterns
Partner with security operations and incident response teams to produce actionable identity telemetry, detection logic, investigation context, containment options, and post-incident improvements
Automate IAM processes, remove standing access, and prioritize control improvements based on threat likelihood, exploitability, blast radius, and business impact
Ensure identity solutions are auditable and satisfy applicable privacy, financial-control, and regulatory obligations without compromising effective security design
Deep technical expertise and extensive hands-on experience across identity lifecycle management, authentication, authorization, federation, access governance, customer identity, privileged access, cloud IAM, and nonhuman identity controls
Expert-level understanding of Zero Trust architecture, least privilege, continuous access evaluation, authentication assurance, trust boundaries, and risk-based authorization
Deep understanding of security and governance controls for privileged accounts, service accounts, application identities, workloads, secrets, and machine credentials
Experience designing identity telemetry, detections, investigation workflows, and response playbooks in partnership with security operations teams
Strong communication and collaboration skills, including the ability to document architecture, explain technical risk, and influence outcomes without direct authority
Extensive professional experience designing, implementing, integrating, securing, and supporting enterprise identity and access management solutions
Demonstrated experience serving as a hands-on technical architect, solution designer, lead engineer, or equivalent IAM subject-matter expert responsible for complex troubleshooting
Relevant identity, security, cloud, or architecture certifications are a plus
Experience operating IAM capabilities across a global, hybrid, and multi-cloud environment preferred
Experience with identity threat detection and response, identity attack-path analysis, or exposure-management practices preferred
Hands-on experience using infrastructure as code, scripting, APIs, workflow automation, and software-development practices to automate IAM capabilities preferred
Skechers, a global Fortune 500® company, develops and markets a diverse range of lifestyle and performance footwear, apparel, and accessories. Serving over 180 countries and territories, Skechers connects customers to products through department and specialty stores, e-commerce and digital stores, and through our more than 5,300 Skechers retail locations.

Skechers provides equal employment opportunities for all employees and applicants for employment without regard race, color, religion, gender, gender identification and expression, national origin, marital status, age, disability, genetic information, military status, sexual orientation, or any other protected characteristic established by local, state or federal law.

Reasonable accommodation may be made to enable individuals with disabilities, who are otherwise qualified for the job position, to perform the essential functions.