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Agent guide: [/agents.md](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/agents.md). --- # IAM Architect - **Company:** Robert Half - **Location:** Los Angeles, CA, United States - **Salary:** $180,000.0 - $220,000.0 - **Contract:** Temporary contract - **Skills:** Microsoft Access, Application Programming Interfaces (APIs), Cloud Computing, Cyber Security, Identity and Access Management, Intrusion Detection and Prevention, Lightweight Directory Access Protocols (LDAP), OAuth, Openid Connect, Anti-Phishing, Zero Trust Network Access, Security Assertion Markup Language (SAML), Software Engineering, Systems Integration, Scripting, Okta, Multi-Cloud, Infrastructure Automation Frameworks - **Published:** September 18, 2026 - **Apply:** https://www.dice.com/job-detail/b44d9622-0947-42be-9968-b007f94c12f9 ## About the Role * Extensive experience designing, implementing, integrating, and securing enterprise Identity and Access Management solutions. * Proven experience as a hands-on IAM Architect, Lead IAM Engineer, Solution Architect, or equivalent technical leader. * Deep expertise across identity lifecycle management, authentication, authorization, federation, privileged access, identity governance, and non-human identities. * Strong experience with enterprise identity platforms such as Okta, Ping Identity, Entra ID, or comparable technologies. * Advanced knowledge of SAML, OAuth 2.0, OpenID Connect, SCIM, LDAP, APIs, federation, tokens, and sessions. * Strong understanding of Zero Trust, least privilege, adaptive access, identity threat mitigation, and modern authentication controls. * Experience designing security and governance controls for privileged accounts, service accounts, application identities, workloads, secrets, and machine credentials. * Strong technical leadership and communication skills with the ability to influence architecture and security decisions across teams., * Experience supporting global, hybrid, and multi-cloud IAM environments. * Experience with identity threat detection and response, attack-path analysis, or identity exposure management. * Hands-on experience automating IAM capabilities using scripting, APIs, Infrastructure as Code, and workflow automation. * Experience designing customer identity and access management solutions. * Experience implementing just-in-time privileged access and phishing-resistant authentication. * Experience integrating identity platforms with security operations and monitoring capabilities. * Relevant identity, cybersecurity, cloud, or architecture certifications. * Experience leading complex IAM implementations while mentoring engineers and establishing technical standards. ## Description * Own end-to-end architecture for workforce IAM, customer identity, privileged access, identity governance, and non-human identities. * Lead technical design reviews and provide architecture guidance to application, infrastructure, cloud, security, and engineering teams. * Design, integrate, test, and troubleshoot enterprise IAM solutions from proof of concept through production implementation. * Architect identity lifecycle and access controls for employees, contractors, third parties, applications, workloads, and service accounts. * Advance access governance through role and entitlement design, certifications, approvals, segregation of duties, and policy enforcement. * Design modern authentication and authorization solutions using Zero Trust, least privilege, adaptive access, and phishing-resistant authentication principles. * 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, privileged access, governance, security, and service management platforms. * Partner with security operations teams to improve identity telemetry, detection capabilities, investigation workflows, and incident response. * Automate IAM processes using APIs, scripting, workflow automation, and modern software engineering practices. Additional Details * Work model: Hybrid three onsite days * Hands-on architecture role with significant technical ownership and enterprise-wide influence * Opportunity to shape modern identity security capabilities across human, privileged, customer, workload, and machine identities * High-visibility position partnering across cybersecurity, infrastructure, cloud, application, and business teams ## Related Videos - [Keeping applications secure by evolving OAuth 2.0 and OpenID Connect](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/videos/100152-keeping-applications-secure-by-evolving-oauth-2-0-and-openid-connect) - [JavaScript? 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