Non-Human Identity Architect - PAM and AuthN

The Non-Human Identity Architect serves as a technical leader responsible for defining, designing, implementing, and governing enterprise identity security solutions across Authentication (AuthN), Privileged Access Management (PAM), Non-Human Identity (NHI), and AI Security domains. This role partners with engineering, architecture, cybersecurity, infrastructure, cloud, application, and business teams to establish future-state identity security capabilities, reduce organizational risk, and support business transformation initiatives.

What You’ll Do:

• Establish an enterprise NHI governance program.

• Develop AI identity security standards and controls.

• Reduce organizational risk associated with machine and privileged identities.

• Modernize identity security capabilities through adoption of industry standards, passwordless authentication, workload identity federation, credential-less architectures, ephemeral access models, modern trust frameworks, and cloud-native identity patterns

• Deliver target-state identity security architecture for cloud, AI, and automation platforms.

• Improve compliance, audit readiness, and operational maturity across AuthN and PAM programs.

• Serve as the teams lead technical authority and partner with Enterprise Architecture for emerging identity security domains, including NHI, Machine Identity Security, and AI Security.

• Develop and maintain enterprise NHI strategy for PAM and AuthN teams in partnership with IGA, Infrastructure, Cloud, Cybersecurity, Application, and Enterprise Architecture teams.

• Establish governance and lifecycle management processes for:

• Service Accounts

• Application Accounts

• API Identities

• Service Principals

• Managed Identities

• Certificates

• Machine Credentials

• Robotic Process Automation (RPA) Identities

• AI Agents

• Agentic Identities

• Delegated Workloads

• Composite Workloads

• Dynamic Client Registrations

• Autonomous Service Identities

• Lead initiatives to improve visibility, ownership, and control of non-human identities across the enterprise.

• Define standards for credential rotation, ownership certification, and audit compliance.

• Establish enterprise NHI inventory and risk-management frameworks, Establish enterprise inventory, governance standards, ownership models, and risk management practices for non-human identities.

• 10+ years of experience in Identity and Access Management, Cybersecurity, Infrastructure Engineering, or Enterprise Architecture.

• Deep expertise in:

• Authentication Technologies

• MFA

• Entra ID / Azure AD

• Privileged Access Management

• CyberArk

• Hashicorp

• Identity Governance

• Secrets Management

• Bitwarden

• PingOne AIC

• Powerbroker

• Ping Federate

Ping Access

What Could Set You Apart:

• Non-Human Identity (NHI) Governance

• Machine Identity Security

• Cloud Identity Architecture

• AI Security and AI Governance

• Workload Identity Federation

• Zero Trust Architecture

• DevSecOps Security

• Kubernetes and Container Security

• Certificate Lifecycle Management

• Authorization Management

• Policy Decision & Enforcement Frameworks

• Policy Orchestration

• Identity Threat Detection & Response (ITDR)

• Identity Security Posture Management (ISPM)

• Hybrid Identity Resilience

• Ephemeral Credential Management
• Experience designing and implementing enterprise-scale Identity Security Architectures, including Authentication, PAM, Non-Human Identity, Secrets Management, Credential Management, Workload Identity, PKI, Certificate Management, SPIFFE/SPIRE-based identity patterns, and AI/Agentic identity security architectures and partnering with enterprise-scale security architects.
• Experience leading cross-functional initiatives and influencing technical direction across organizations.

$120,000 - $204,300 a year - Full-time, Pulled from the full job description

• AD&D insurance
• 401(k)
• Health insurance
• Health savings account
• Dental insurance
• Flexible spending account
• Employee assistance program, 120,000.00 - 204,300.00 Annual

Type

Full-time