IAM Architect

Role: IAM Architect

Location: Atlanta, GA

Employment Type : C2H

Tax Term: W2/1099/C2C

About Us:

ConglomerateIT is a certified and a pioneer in providing premium end-to-end Global Workforce Solutions and IT Services to diverse clients across various domains. Visit us at http://www.conglomerateit.com

Job Overview

The Principal Architect – Identity & Digital Workplace owns the overall architecture across workforce identity, customer identity (B2C), end user computing (EUC), collaboration platforms, and Zero Trust alignment. This role provides design authority and long-term technical direction, ensuring architectural consistency, security, scalability, and alignment to enterprise strategy. The role defines standards and patterns, governs architecture decisions, and ensures architecture is executed end-to-end through integrated documentation, work management, and delivery practices.

KEY RESPONSIBILITIES

1. Architectural Ownership & Strategy (Identity Digital Workplace Zero Trust)

• Own the end-to-end architecture across workforce identity (B2E), customer identity (B2C), EUC, collaboration platforms, and Zero Trust alignment.
• Define and maintain current-state and target-state architectures, including transition roadmaps.
• Ensure solutions meet enterprise requirements for reliability, scalability, resilience, usability, and compliance.
• Partner with cybersecurity, infrastructure, and application teams to ensure cohesive enterprise architecture and consistent security outcomes.

1. Architecture Standards, Patterns & Reference Designs (Design → Build → Execute)

• Establish and continuously evolve architecture principles, standards, patterns, and reference architectures across the full scope of the role.
• Create reusable building blocks and guardrails that reduce fragmentation and accelerate delivery.
• Define standard integration patterns for identity, device posture, and collaboration access controls.
• Ensure standards are practical, consumable, and measurable (e.g., templates, checklists, decision frameworks).

1. Design Authority, Review Governance & Exception Management

• Serve as the final design authority for architecture decisions within scope.
• Review and approve solution designs produced by architects and engineering teams; provide guidance and correction as needed.
• Resolve architectural conflicts and cross-domain tradeoffs (security vs. usability, cost vs. scalability, standardization vs. agility).
• Establish a traceable architecture exception process that is documented, risk assessed, time-bounded, and reviewed on a regular cadence.

1. Architecture Documentation & Knowledge Management (System of Record)

• Own the architecture documentation system of record and ensure standards, patterns, and decisions are written, discoverable, and maintained.
• Publish and curate architecture standards, reference designs, decision records, and review artifacts in a shared knowledge platform (e.g., Confluence or equivalent).
• Define documentation requirements for design specifications, security controls, and external interfaces so designs can be reviewed, validated, and operated reliably.
• Ensure architecture artifacts remain current as solutions evolve.

1. Workflow Integration: Backlog, Intake, and Traceability (Architecture-to-Delivery)

• Embed architecture work into delivery execution by ensuring it is planned, tracked, and traceable (e.g., epics/stories/tasks) in a work management platform (e.g., Jira or equivalent).
• Ensure architectural runway and platform improvements are represented and prioritized alongside feature delivery.
• Establish intake and review processes that integrate smoothly with product and engineering workflows.

1. CI/CD Alignment and “Executable Standards” (Guardrails in the Pipeline)

• Ensure architecture standards are executable by aligning them to CI/CD and DevOps delivery practices (build/test/validate/deploy).
• Promote integrated quality and security gates so standards are enforced through delivery pipelines and engineering workflows—not only after-the-fact reviews.
• Partner with engineering teams to operationalize standards through automation, repeatable deployment patterns, and consistent configuration baselines.

1. Roadmap, Modernization & Long-Term Technical Direction

• Define multi-year architecture roadmaps and modernization strategies across identity, EUC, and collaboration.
• Identify opportunities to reduce technical debt, retire legacy approaches, improve interoperability, and strengthen security posture.
• Evaluate emerging technologies and recommend adoption, standardization, or retirement decisions based on enterprise value and risk**.**

1. Cross-Functional Leadership & Mentorship

• Influence stakeholders across engineering, operations, cybersecurity, and product without direct authority.
• Mentor architects and senior engineers; raise architectural maturity through coaching, standards, and repeatable practices.
• Communicate complex technical concepts clearly to both technical and non-technical audiences.

QUALIFICATIONS

Required – Architecture & Technical Leadership

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, Engineering, or equivalent experience.
• Significant experience in enterprise architecture, principal architecture, or senior solution architecture roles with cross-domain scope.
• Proven ability to set long-term technical direction, create standards, and drive consistent adoption across teams.
• Strong stakeholder management and communication skills, including executive-level influence.

Required – Identity & Access Management (B2E and B2C)

• Deep expertise in enterprise identity platforms (e.g., Active Directory and modern cloud identity services).
• Strong understanding of identity protocols and concepts (e.g., SAML, OAuth2, OpenID Connect, directory services).
• Experience designing and governing workforce and customer identity architectures, including risk segmentation and scale considerations.

Required – EUC & Device Architecture

• Experience defining endpoint strategy and device architecture, including modern endpoint management and policy enforcement.
• Ability to design device trust, compliance, and access control models aligned to Zero Trust principles.

Required – Collaboration Platform Architecture

• Experience architecting or governing enterprise collaboration services, including platform configuration patterns and identity/access alignment.
• Ability to align collaboration services with identity lifecycle and access controls.

Required – Zero Trust & Security Architecture Alignment

• Strong understanding of Zero Trust concepts (identity-centric security, least privilege, continuous verification).
• Experience partnering with cybersecurity stakeholders to align architecture to security requirements and risk posture.

Required – Architecture Standards, Documentation & Tooling Integration

• Proven experience creating and maintaining architecture standards, reference designs, and decision records.
• Experience operating an architecture documentation practice using platforms such as Confluence (or equivalent).
• Experience integrating architecture work into work management systems such as Jira (or equivalent).
• Familiarity aligning architecture governance with CI/CD and DevOps delivery practices.

Preferred Qualifications

• Relevant vendor or industry certifications in identity, security, cloud, endpoint management, or enterprise architecture.
• Experience leading architecture across global environments and multiple business domains.
• Demonstrated success driving standardization and modernization while maintaining operational stability.

ROLE CHARACTERISTICS / WORKING MODEL

• Senior individual contributor role with enterprise-wide influence and decision authority within scope.
• Cross-functional, highly collaborative, and outcomes-driven.
• May support critical escalations or time-sensitive design decisions as needed.