IAM Platform Architect

Please note that this is a contract role providing services to Hilton through Talent Solutions. If you are selected for this role, you will be employed by Talent Solutions and will not be an employee of Hilton. Contract workers are not employees of Hilton or any of its subsidiaries, nor will they be eligible for Hilton benefits.

This is a US based hybrid position at one of our corporate offices in McLean, VA, Dallas, TX or Memphis, TN 2-3 days/week***

We are seeking a highly experienced and visionary identity and access management professional to define and lead enterprise-wide IAM strategy, architecture, and governance across a complex, global organization. This role serves as a key architectural authority responsible for translating business, security, risk, and regulatory requirements into durable, scalable identity solutions that span cloud, on-premises, SaaS, application, and AI environments. The ideal candidate brings deep expertise across the full identity ecosystem, covering both human and non-human identities, and possesses the technical breadth, leadership presence, and communication skills necessary to influence stakeholders at all levels of the organization.

This is a high-impact opportunity to shape the future of identity security at enterprise scale, including the emerging frontier of agentic AI identity management.

• Define enterprise IAM strategy, target-state architectures, and multiyear roadmaps for human, non-human, and agent identities
• Create architecture diagrams, architectural principles, decision records, capability models, and transition plans across the identity ecosystem
• Assess business requirements, technology constraints, cyber risks, and regulatory obligations to recommend practical and supportable solutions
• Identify architectural gaps, technical debt, dependencies, and investment priorities across identity platforms and services
• Design enterprise identity solutions spanning identity governance and administration, authentication, access requests, access provisioning, directory services, privileged access, secrets, and certificates
• Automate, orchestrate, and streamline manual business processes while improving end user experience and strengthening governance
• Establish documented standards and design patterns across the IAM technology stack
• Lead complex architecture and design reviews and produce clear diagrams, process flows, integration specifications, and implementation guidance
• Resolve cross-platform architectural issues and make decisions that balance security, resiliency, scalability, operability, user experience, and cost
• Evaluate IAM products and platform capabilities through market analysis, proofs of concept, and technical assessments
• Advise security, infrastructure, application, AI, and business teams on identity requirements and solution options
• Guide the implementation of agentic AI identity capabilities, including discovery, ownership, authentication, authorization, governance, lifecycle controls, and auditability
• Develop solution recommendations that support enterprise governance and risk management strategy
• Drive adoption of standard IAM solutions across hundreds of business applications, including SAML/OAuth SSO, SCIM or Just-in-Time provisioning, role-based access control, and centralized access requests

• Deep breadth across multiple IAM domains and platforms, with demonstrated ability to design integrated cross-platform solutions
• Deep knowledge of IAM principles including identity lifecycle management, just-in-time provisioning, SCIM, OAuth/OIDC, SAML, LDAP, APIs, cloud identity, privileged access management, and Zero Trust principles
• Proven experience with SailPoint Identity IQ or Identity Security Cloud, Ping Federate,…