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You will work closely with cross-functional teams to elevate identity telemetry, detection, and incident response, contributing to a forward-looking security posture.ResponsibilitiesOwn end-to-end architecture for workforce IAM, customer identity, privileged access, identity governance, and non-human identities.Lead technical design reviews and provide guidance to application, infrastructure, cloud, security, and engineering teams.Design, integrate, test, and troubleshoot enterprise IAM solutions from proof of concept through production.Architect identity lifecycle and access controls for employees, contractors, third parties, applications, workloads, and service accounts.Advance access governance through role design, certifications, approvals, separation of duties, and policy enforcement.Design modern authentication and authorization using Zero Trust, least privilege, adaptive access, and phishing-resistant methods.Identify and reduce identity-related risks involving credentials, tokens, sessions, federation, privileged access, and machine identities.Develop vendor-neutral integration patterns across identity providers, cloud IAM, governance, and service management platforms.Partner with security operations to improve identity telemetry, detection, investigation workflows, and incident response.Automate IAM processes using APIs, scripting, workflow automation, and modern software engineering practices.Key requirementsDeep IAM expertise with strong technical leadershipVendor-agnostic approach to identity challengesHands-on architecture design, integration, testing, and implementationExperience with workforce, customer, privileged, and machine identitiesAbility to translate business and security requirements into scalable solutionsCollaboration across security, cloud, infrastructure, and application teamsleadershipcross-functional collaborationstrong communicationZero Trustadaptive accessphishing-resistant authentication","company":"Robert Half","rawCompany":"robert half","city":"Long Beach","state":"CA","isRemote":false,"isActive":false,"createdAt":"2026-10-26T13:33:03.957Z","occupations":[{"code":"15-1299.08","title":"Computer Systems Engineers/Architects","slug":"computer-systems-engineers-architects"},{"code":"15-1243.00","title":"Database Architects","slug":"database-architects"},{"code":"15-1211.00","title":"Computer Systems Analysts","slug":"computer-systems-analysts"}],"industries":[{"code":"541512","title":"Computer Systems Design Services","slug":"computer-systems-design-services"},{"code":"541511","title":"Custom Computer Programming Services","slug":"custom-computer-programming-services"},{"code":"513210","title":"Software Publishers","slug":"software-publishers"}],"jobPosting":{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"JobPosting","title":"IAM Architect","description":"OverviewAs IAM Architect you will own and shape identity architecture across workforce, customer, privileged, and non-human identities. 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