Platform & Identity Architect

Acuity Inc. (NYSE: AYI) is a market-leading industrial technology company. We use technology to solve problems in spaces, light and more things to come. Through our two business segments, Acuity Brands Lighting (ABL) and Acuity Intelligent Spaces (AIS), we design, manufacture, and bring to market products and services that make a valuable difference in people's lives.

We achieve growth through the development of innovative new products and services, including lighting, lighting controls, building management solutions, and an audio, video and control platform. We focus on customer outcomes and drive growth and productivity to increase market share and deliver superior returns. We look to aggressively deploy capital to grow the business and to enter attractive new verticals.

Acuity Inc. is based in Atlanta, Georgia, with operations across North America, Europe and Asia. The Company is powered by approximately 13,000 dedicated and talented associates. Visit us at .

At Acuity, we are building a modern, scalable Identity and Access Management (IAM) and Customer Identity and Access Management (CIAM) platform to support our growing portfolio of digital products and services.

This role will play a critical part in shaping and delivering our unified identity strategy, enabling secure, seamless authentication and authorization experiences for employees, customers, and partners.

You will work across both enterprise IAM and CIAM domains, leveraging industry leading platforms such as Microsoft Entra , Okta etc. and modern identity standards, while partnering with engineering, security, and product teams to drive standardization, scalability, and security-first design.

• Define and evolve the IAM & CIAM architecture, aligned to Zero Trust and enterprise security principles
• Design scalable authentication and authorization models across internal platforms and customer-facing applications
• Establish standards, patterns, and reference architectures for identity services across the organization
• Drive platform selection, integration strategy, and roadmap for identity capabilities

• Lead design and implementation of identity solutions using industry leading technologies like Microsoft Entra , Okta, Auth0, Ping or any other Identity Providers (IdPs)
• Build and maintain:
  • Authentication flows (SSO, MFA, passwordless)
  • Authorization models (RBAC / ABAC)
  • Federation and identity brokering integrations
  • B2B and B2C flows
• Ensure scalable handling of user identities, tokens, sessions, and lifecycle management

• Design and implement customer-facing identity services, including:
  • Self-service registration and onboarding flows
  • Customer lifecycle management and identity governance
  • Secure access across multiple products and platforms
  • Enable consistent authentication and authorization across digital products
  • Drive improvements in user experience, security, and scalability for customer identity

• Implement and enforce:
  • MFA, adaptive authentication, and conditional access policies
  • Identity governance, audit logging, and access reviews
  • Align identity systems with regulatory and compliance requirements (e.g., GDPR, data protection)

• Partner with engineering teams to integrate identity services into applications
• Enable adoption through SDKs, APIs, documentation, and patterns
• Act as an internal consultant and SME for identity across product and platform teams
• Experience with public cloud ecosystems like Microsoft Azure (Preferred), GCP and AWS.
• Any exposure to Kubernetes and related technologies is an advantage

• Ensure identity platforms are:
  • Highly…