Principal IAM-Zero Trust Solutions Architect

1. General Program Information / Position Overview

Serve as a principal technical leader for the Leidos Mission Operations Division CTO Team supporting the Defense Information Systems Agency and other Department of War and federal customers.

The Principal IAM / Zero Trust Solutions Architect will lead the development and integration of complex enterprise technology and cybersecurity solutions spanning identity cloud infrastructure networking automation security and mission systems. The successful candidate will bring broad enterprise architecture experience with strength in Identity and Access Management (IAM) and Zero Trust principles.

This role requires the ability to assess complex customer environments translate mission and cybersecurity requirements into practical technical solutions evaluate alternative technologies and lead multidisciplinary engineering teams through solution development and integration. The position will also support customer engagement technical demonstrations modernization initiatives proposal development and other business growth activities.

2. Primary Responsibilities

• Lead the architecture design and integration of complex enterprise infrastructure and cybersecurity solutions across cloud on-premises classified and mission environments.
• Develop integrated IAM and Zero Trust solution architectures aligned with customer mission requirements and applicable DoW NIST and federal cybersecurity guidance.
• Assess existing technology environments identify architectural and operational gaps and develop modernization strategies and implementation roadmaps.
• Design and integrate identity cloud infrastructure networking security automation monitoring and related enterprise capabilities.
• Apply IAM principles including authentication authorization federation identity lifecycle management privileged access PKI and access policy as part of broader enterprise solutions.
• Incorporate Zero Trust principles such as least privilege continuous verification segmentation policy enforcement and risk-based access into solution architectures.
• Evaluate commercial and government technologies conduct technical trade studies and Analyses of Alternatives and develop solution recommendations.
• Define architectural interfaces integration dependencies implementation approaches and transition strategies across multiple technical domains.
• Develop architecture diagrams technical approaches implementation plans test strategies modernization roadmaps and customer briefings.
• Provide technical leadership and direction to multidisciplinary engineering and integration teams.
• Engage directly with government customers and mission stakeholders to understand technical challenges shape requirements and develop practical solutions.
• Research emerging enterprise cybersecurity cloud IAM and Zero Trust technologies and assess their applicability to customer missions.
• Support technical demonstrations solution development capture proposals and on-contract growth activities.

3. Basic Qualifications

Enterprise Solutions Architecture

• Significant experience designing integrating and modernizing complex enterprise infrastructure cybersecurity or mission technology environments.
• Ability to translate customer mission and technical requirements into architectures implementation approaches and modernization roadmaps.
• Experience evaluating technologies conducting technical trade studies or Analyses of Alternatives and developing solution recommendations.
• Experience leading complex technical integrations across multiple infrastructure and cybersecurity domains.

Identity Security & Zero Trust

• Strong working knowledge of enterprise IAM/ICAM concepts including authentication authorization federation identity lifecycle management privileged access PKI directory services and access policy.
• Experience incorporating IAM capabilities into enterprise cloud infrastructure or cybersecurity solutions.
• Understanding of Zero Trust principles and the interaction among identity devices applications networks workloads data and security policy.
• Familiarity with DoD NIST RMF and related federal cybersecurity frameworks and requirements.

Cloud Infrastructure & Integration

• Experience with cloud and hybrid enterprise environments such as AWS Azure or comparable platforms.
• Broad understanding of enterprise infrastructure technologies including networking virtualization automation configuration management monitoring and cybersecurity technologies.
• Familiarity with modern automation DevSecOps containers and infrastructure-as-code concepts.
• Ability to understand and define integration requirements across infrastructure cybersecurity IAM cloud and operations technologies.

Technical Leadership & Customer Engagement

• Experience providing technical leadership to multidisciplinary engineering teams.
• Ability to communicate complex technical concepts to government customers technical teams and senior stakeholders.
• Strong written verbal technical briefing and customer-facing communication skills.
• Experience developing technical architectures solution concepts recommendations or implementation plans.

Education Experience Clearance & Certification

• Bachelors degree in Computer Science Information Technology Systems Engineering Cybersecurity or a related field and approximately 15 years of relevant professional experience.
• Additional relevant experience may be considered in lieu of a technical degree.
• Active DoD Secret clearance or higher.
• DoD 8140-aligned cybersecurity certification appropriate to the role such as Security CE or higher.

4. Preferred Qualifications

• Experience supporting DoD Intelligence Community or other federal mission environments.
• TS/SCI eligibility or active TS/SCI clearance.
• Experience architecting solutions across classified multi-domain hybrid-cloud or distributed enterprise environments.
• Experience with enterprise IAM platforms such as Microsoft Entra ID Active Directory Okta Ping Identity SailPoint CyberArk RadiantLogic or comparable technologies.
• Experience with Zero Trust modernization initiatives or applying Zero Trust principles within enterprise architectures.
• Experience with automation infrastructure-as-code DevSecOps or configuration-management technologies.
• Experience with enterprise network monitoring observability or cybersecurity platforms.
• Experience supporting federal security accreditation and authorization processes.
• Experience conducting vendor technology evaluations or Analyses of Alternatives.
• Experience supporting capture proposals technical solution development or customer demonstrations.

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