IAM Architect
Listed on 2026-10-16
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IT/Tech
Cybersecurity, Systems Engineer, Information Security & Data Protection
A Kforce client in Manhattan Beach, CA is currently seeking an IAM Architect for a permanent, fully onsite role.
Summary:
The IAM Architect will be responsible for designing, implementing, and maintaining enterprise Identity and Access Management (IAM) solutions across workforce, customer, privileged, and non-human identities. This role will serve as a technical leader, partnering with infrastructure, cloud, application, and cybersecurity teams to develop secure, scalable, and resilient identity architectures that support business objectives and reduce organizational risk.
Key Responsibilities:
- Lead the architecture and design of enterprise IAM solutions across workforce, customer, privileged, contractor, and machine identities
- Develop and implement identity lifecycle management processes, including joiner, mover, and leaver workflows
- Design secure authentication, authorization, federation, and access governance solutions
- Partner with engineering, security, cloud, and application teams to integrate identity solutions across enterprise systems
- Conduct architecture reviews and provide technical guidance for complex IAM initiatives
- Design and implement privileged access management (PAM) and governance controls
- Apply Zero Trust security principles to reduce identity-related risk and strengthen access controls
- Evaluate and mitigate identity attack paths, credential risks, privilege escalation risks, and authentication vulnerabilities
- Collaborate with Security Operations and Incident Response teams to improve identity monitoring, detection, and response capabilities
- Automate IAM processes through APIs, scripting, infrastructure-as-code, and workflow automation tools
- Ensure IAM solutions support regulatory, audit, privacy, and security requirements
A Kforce client in Manhattan Beach, CA is currently seeking an IAM Architect for a permanent, fully onsite role.
Summary:
The IAM Architect will be responsible for designing, implementing, and maintaining enterprise Identity and Access Management (IAM) solutions across workforce, customer, privileged, and non-human identities. This role will serve as a technical leader, partnering with infrastructure, cloud, application, and cybersecurity teams to develop secure, scalable, and resilient identity architectures that support business objectives and reduce organizational risk.
Key Responsibilities:
- Lead the architecture and design of enterprise IAM solutions across workforce, customer, privileged, contractor, and machine identities
- Develop and implement identity lifecycle management processes, including joiner, mover, and leaver workflows
- Design secure authentication, authorization, federation, and access governance solutions
- Partner with engineering, security, cloud, and application teams to integrate identity solutions across enterprise systems
- Conduct architecture reviews and provide technical guidance for complex IAM initiatives
- Design and implement privileged access management (PAM) and governance controls
- Apply Zero Trust security principles to reduce identity-related risk and strengthen access controls
- Evaluate and mitigate identity attack paths, credential risks, privilege escalation risks, and authentication vulnerabilities
- Collaborate with Security Operations and Incident Response teams to improve identity monitoring, detection, and response capabilities
- Automate IAM processes through APIs, scripting, infrastructure-as-code, and workflow automation tools
- Ensure IAM solutions support regulatory, audit, privacy, and security requirements
- Extensive experience designing, implementing, and supporting enterprise Identity and Access Management solutions
- Experience serving as a technical architect, lead engineer, or IAM subject matter expert
- Experience securing workforce, customer, third-party, and non-human identities
- Experience with cloud IAM platforms in enterprise environments
- Experience designing access governance, role-based access controls, and entitlement management solutions
- Experience supporting IAM integrations across cloud, enterprise, and application environments
- Strong expertise in:
Identity Lifecycle Management;
Authentication & Authorization;
Federation & Single Sign-On (SSO);
Identity Governance & Administration (IGA);
Privileged Access Management (PAM);
Cloud Identity & Access Management - Deep knowledge of Zero Trust architecture and least-privilege security models
- Strong knowledge of: SAML; OAuth 2.0;
OpenID Connect (OIDC); SCIM; LDAP;
Identity APIs and…
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