Enterprise Architect IAM

Irvine, CA - USA

Monthly Salary: Not Disclosed

Posted on: 18 hours ago

Vacancies: 1 Vacancy

Job Summary

Enterprise Architect Security & IAM

Experience Required: 10 16 years overall IT experience; 5 7 years in security architecture and IAM/IGA/PAM; strong regulatory/compliance experience

1. Background

In addition to traditional enterprise security and IAM responsibilities this role addresses the rapid expansion of AI driven and agentic systems across the enterprise. As AI agents automation and non human identities increasingly interact with cloud platforms enterprise applications and sensitive data the role ensures that identity access and security governance extend consistently across human non human and agentic actors. The architect plays a key role in defining secure auditable and governed adoption of AI and agentic workflows aligned with enterprise security strategy and regulatory expectations.

2. Skills Required

Strong experience in enterprise security architecture Zero Trust principles and security by design across hybrid and multi cloud environments

Ability to define security architectures that integrate IAM SOC and platform security controls into a cohesive enterprise model

Deep expertise in IAM concepts: authentication authorization federation lifecycle management and privileged access

Strong understanding of non human identities (NHIs) including service accounts API keys workload identities bots and AI agents

Experience defining IGA and PAM patterns that scale beyond human users to machine and agent identities

Understanding of agentic AI security challenges including delegated authority autonomy and post authentication risk

Experience designing identity first security models for AI agents acting across multiple systems and platforms

Familiarity with governance models for AI agents as first class identities including ownership least privilege and auditability

Knowledge of Security for AI: protecting AI systems models agents and data pipelines from misuse over permissioning and data leakage

Knowledge of AI for Security: applying AI/ML to enhance detection identity risk analysis and security operations (conceptual/architectural level)

Awareness of Model Context Protocol (MCP) as an emerging AI to enterprise integration standard and its security implications

Understanding of MCP governance needs: scoped access tool authorization audit trails ownership and runtime controls

Ability to define enterprise wide governance models covering cloud SOC IAM AI workflows and agentic systems

Strong experience collaborating with risk compliance audit and security leadership in regulated environments

3. Responsibilities

Define and drive a unified enterprise IAM and security architecture spanning cloud platforms applications SOC tooling AI platforms and automation workflows.

Establish identity and access strategy for both human and non human identities including applications APIs service accounts bots agents and AI workloads.

Architect IAM for the agentic and AI driven world covering AI agents orchestration frameworks MCP style patterns and autonomous workflows.

Define security guardrails for AI systems (Security for AI) including identity controls access boundaries auditability and governance across AI pipelines and agent interactions.

Enable AI driven security capabilities (AI for Security) by guiding integration of AI into detection monitoring identity risk analysis and SOC workflows.

Establish governance models for non human and agent identities including lifecycle management least privilege access approval workflows and continuous review.

Define enterprise standards and reference architectures for IAM IGA PAM RBAC/ABAC and non human IAM across hybrid and multi cloud environments.

Ensure IAM and security architectures align with Zero Trust principles regulatory requirements and internal security policies.

Partner with security leadership SOC cloud data and AI platform teams to ensure consistent identity enforcement across security operations and AI workflows.

Provide architectural guidance and design review support for initiatives involving cloud security IAM modernization AI platforms and automation without assuming delivery ownership.

Produce clear executive ready security and IAM architecture artifacts including target state diagrams standards and roadmap recommendations.

Salary Range- $120000-$150000 a year

Enterprise Architect Security & IAM Experience Required: 10 16 years overall IT experience; 5 7 years in security architecture and IAM/IGA/PAM; strong regulatory/compliance experience 1. Background In addition to traditional enterprise security and IAM responsibilities this role addresses th...