Pillar Lead: Indentity Architect (R-00210)

Team: Endpoint Security Team

Location: 100% Remote

Commitment: Full-Time

Workplace Type: remote

Position Responsibilities

• Develop identity-centric architecture patterns for enterprise Zero Trust Use Cases.
• Define authentication, authorization, federation, identity proofing, privileged access, conditional access, and lifecycle integration requirements.
• Map identity signals to policy decision and enforcement points across applications, networks, devices, and workloads.
• Assess existing identity technologies for interoperability, consolidation opportunities, and alignment to target-state Zero Trust capabilities.
• Support system implementation plans, pilots, testing, validation, and architecture reviews.
• Document identity dependencies, deviations, risks, and lessons learned for reuse across future implementation waves.

Job Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Cybersecurity, Information Systems, or a related field.
• Seven or more years of identity and access management architecture or engineering experience.
• Deep knowledge of federation, SSO, MFA, conditional access, PKI, PAM, identity governance, and modern authentication protocols.
• Strong understanding of Zero Trust identity principles and policy-based access control.
• Experience integrating identity services across cloud, hybrid, and legacy environments.
Preferred Qualifications: 
Experience with Microsoft Entra ID, Active Directory, PIV/CAC, PAM, IGA, or comparable enterprise identity platforms.
Experience supporting Federal identity requirements.
Experience with workload identity and machine-to-machine authentication patterns.
Preferred Certifications:
One or more of the following is preferred:
CISSP
Microsoft Identity and Access Administrator
Okta certification
Security+