Principal Cybersecurity Architect – Identity, IAM & Zero Trust

Full-time direct hire position. We are not able to offer visa sponsorship, 1099 status, or work with C2C for this role.

At World Wide Technology, we work together to make a new world happen. Our important work benefits our clients and partners as much as it does our people and communities across the globe. WWT is dedicated to achieving its mission of creating a profitable growth company that is also a Great Place to Work for All. We achieve this through our world-class culture, generous benefits, and by delivering cutting-edge technology solutions for our clients.

Founded in 1990, WWT is a global technology solutions provider leading the AI and Digital Revolution. WWT combines the power of strategy, execution, and partnership to accelerate digital transformational outcomes for organizations around the globe. Through its Advanced Technology Center, a collaborative ecosystem of the world's most advanced hardware and software solutions, WWT helps clients and partners conceptualize, test, and validate innovative technology solutions for the best business outcomes and then deploys them at scale through its global warehousing, distribution, and integration capabilities.

With over 12,000 employees across WWT and Softchoice and more than 60 locations around the world, WWT's culture, built on a set of core values and established leadership philosophies, has been recognized 14 years in a row by Fortune and Great Place to Work® for its unique blend of determination, innovation, and creating a great place to work for all.

The Internal WWT IT team is the backbone of our company's technological infrastructure, ensuring seamless operations and continuous innovation. Our team is dedicated to managing and supporting the company's technology infrastructure, ensuring the smooth operation of hardware, software, networks, and data systems, while providing top-notch technical support to employees. By joining the Internal WWT IT team, you will play a crucial role in maintaining the efficiency and security of our IT environment, enabling the company to achieve its strategic goals.

The Internal IT team offers the opportunity to work in a dynamic and collaborative environment, where your contributions will have a direct impact on the company's success. If you are passionate about technology and eager to take on new challenges, we encourage you to apply and join our team.

WWT Information Security is looking for a Principal Cybersecurity Architect to own the enterprise security architecture across identity, access management, and Zero Trust. This is a senior individual contributor role with significant influence over how people, machines, and workloads authenticate, authorize, and access resources across our environment.

• Partner with IT, infrastructure, and business stakeholders to integrate security into technology decisions
• Mentor and guide security engineers on architecture standards and design decisions

• Design and mature a Zero Trust architecture (ZTNA, MFA, PAM) spanning identity, device trust, network access, and application security — grounded in NIST SP 800-207 and Beyond Corp principles.
• Define reference architectures, security patterns, and guardrails consumed across engineering and infrastructure teams
• Lead threat modeling and security architecture reviews for major platform changes and initiatives
• Evaluate and select security tooling (SASE, SSE, ZTNA, NDR, EDR) aligned to the overall architecture strategy
• Drive continuous improvement of Zero Trust posture through gap assessments and maturity modelling

• Own the enterprise IAM architecture — covering workforce identity, B2B federation, machine identities, and cloud entitlements
• Design and govern identity lifecycle management: provisioning, role assignment, access reviews, and deprovisioning — ensuring least privilege is enforced by default and not by exception
• Architect federation and SSO standards across the enterprise: SAML 2.0, OIDC, OAuth 2.0 — including integrations with third-party SaaS, partner tenants, and customer-facing…