Enterprise ICAM Architect

Enterprise ICAM Architect

The Opportunity:

As an Enterprise ICAM Architect at Booz Allen, you’ll play a critical role in the world of identity and access management (IAM) and Zero Trust. You’ll oversee large-scale IAM projects for our clients. You’ll directly interface with stakeholders and engineering teams to delve into the details and dependencies of critical processes and users’ roles within them. In this role, you’ll design and direct the strategy, implementation, and governance of ICAM systems at the Department of Veterans Affairs (VA), including IGA, SSO, PAM, and directory services.

You'll lead an ICAM Program Office, as well as the support teams for all ICAM products.

• Design and direct the enterprise ICAM target-state architecture across SSO such as Entra  Okta, IGA such as Saviynt, PAM such as Cyber Ark or PAMaaS, Master Person Index, and Enterprise Workforce Directory, aligned to Zero Trust principles.
• Own security architecture engineering or design, security strategy, and regulatory compliance alignment, including STIGs, FIPS, and NIST 800-53, across the VA ICAM portfolio.
• Lead architecture reviews, technical validation, and vendor evaluations for Innovation Lab sessions and technology stack decisions.
• Lead multiple Kanban Agile support teams in a large Scaled Agile (SAFe) team.
• Co-lead quarterly increment planning.
• Partner with senior government stakeholders, including ICAM program owners and C-suite executives, on ICAM architecture discussions.
• Support DoW and other external partner federation architecture efforts.
• Leverage AI intelligently to drive efficiency and quality of output.
• Automate tasks wherever appropriate, and develop and consistently use ways of working which allow agents and automated processes to effectively assist.

• Experience designing and directing enterprise-scale ICAM strategy, implementation, and governance, including Zero Trust, cloud security, and compliance
• Experience leading integration of SSO, MFA, PAM, and directory services as an enterprise SME
• Experience with security architecture, RBAC or Access Certification implementation, and identity or role lifecycle management
• Knowledge of Federal ICAM mandates such as OMB M-19-17, NIST 800-63, EO 14028, and OMB M-22-09
• Ability to obtain and maintain a Public Trust or Suitability/Fitness determination based on client requirements
• Bachelor's degree CISSP Certification, or Cyber or Identity Certification such as AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner, ICAgile Certified Professional, or Cyber Ark Certified Certification

• Experience with Electronic Health Record Modernization (EHRM) and DoW federated solution architecture across different user types
• Experience architecting hybrid identity solutions across AWS, Azure, VMWare, and leading ICAM platforms such as Cyber Ark, Saviynt, Okta, and Ping Identity
• Experience using AI agents to build things

Applicants selected will be subject to a government investigation and may need to meet eligibility requirements of the U.S. government client.

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