Identity and Access Management (IAM) Solutions Architect
Arlington, TX - USA
Job Summary
The Identity and Access Management Solutions Architect designs builds and owns the architecture for identity and access management across the organization covering both human identities and non-human identities. This is an individual-contributor execution-focused role: the architect leads the strategy design and governance of identity systems while helping building and configuring solutions in Okta and Auth0 and serves as the technical authority on identity security lifecycle management and zero-trust access patterns. Applied experience in deploying non-human identities is required.
- Design build and configure the enterprise IAM architecture including SSO MFA adaptive authentication and federation across Okta and Auth0
- Own and directly implement the strategy for non-human identity: service accounts workload identities secrets and credential management machine-to-machine authentication and the emerging identity model for AI agents
- Define and enforce identity governance standards including access reviews privileged access management and least-privilege models
- Architect build and operate identity lifecycle processes: provisioning de-provisioning and role-based or attribute-based access control
- Partner with engineering security and infrastructure teams to build and embed identity-first design into new systems and integrations
- Evaluate select and implement IAM tooling and lead migrations or consolidations between identity platforms
- Establish and operate monitoring auditing and incident response practices specific to identity and access risk
- Serve as the subject-matter expert on IAM for audits compliance reviews and security assessments
- Applied experience securing human and non-human identities at an organizational scale required
- Deep hands-on architecture experience with Okta and Auth0 including custom policies connectors and API-driven configuration
- Experience partnering across security infrastructure and application teams on identity-first design
- Strong background in authentication protocols and standards: OAuth 2.0 OIDC SAML SCIM
- Experience with privileged access management secrets management and workload identity frameworks
- Working knowledge of zero-trust architecture principles as applied to identity
- Strong written and verbal communication skills for translating architecture into practical guidance for engineering teams
- Comfort mentoring engineers on identity best practices even without formal management responsibility
- Experience with AI Agent Governance
- Experience with Okta for AI Agents - Okta Gateway
A meaningful career:Join a passionate community of over 1400 employees dedicated to improving lives and driving innovative solutions to complex social challenges.
Commitment to growth:Thrive in a non-hierarchical environment that empowers employees to discover develop and apply their unique talents.
For this role the anticipated base salary range is $175000 $205000 per year. This role may also be eligible for additional bonus compensation designed to align total compensation with an employees overall contribution to the organization.
Our Principles-Based Management (PBM) compensation philosophy is grounded in an individualized approach that rewards the long-term value each person creates for the organization. Compensation decisions are informed by a variety of factors including relevant experience capabilitiesdemonstratedskills role responsibilities and expected contribution. Consistent with this approach base salary may vary within or outside of theanticipatedrange based on these considerations.
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