IAM / AI / Enterprise Platforms Architect

Overview

Senior architect role focused on identity, access management, AI integration, and enterprise-scale platforms.

Core Responsibilities

Architecture & Design

• Define reference architectures and reusable patterns for AI agent identities, authentication, authorization, credential/token handling, and auditability across enterprise applications
• Design secure access models for workflows, customers, and workloads
• Partner with application teams to integrate modern auth protocols (OIDC/SAML) and service-to-service communication patterns
• Build AI-enabled solutions using enterprise platforms, connectors, APIs, and orchestration capabilities
• Define modular, scalable architecture covering APIs, middleware, policy enforcement, and lifecycle management
• Improve AI/ML processes including:
  • Access request flows
  • Policy validation
  • Intelligent analytics
  • Documentation automation

Governance & Security

• Implement AI control frameworks including:
  • Model controls and guardrails
  • Auditability and signed-to-NIST / risk frameworks
• Apply AI security standards including OWASP Top 10 for LLM applications and MITRE ATLAS
• Ensure governance, compliance, and privacy are embedded in architecture

Required Qualifications

Technical & Domain Expertise

• Experience implementing:
  • Enterprise IAM systems (Azure AD/Entra, Okta)
  • Identity lifecycle management and privileged access management
  • OAuth, SAML, LDAP, Kerberos, and API security
• Strong knowledge of:
  • AI/ML and platform engineering
  • Microservices and distributed architectures
  • Cloud-native patterns

Engineering Skills

• Front-end: SPA frameworks (React/Angular) and JavaScript/TypeScript ecosystem
• Back-end: Java/.NET, microservices, traditional 3-tier architecture
• Scripting: Linux shell and PowerShell
• Documentation and communication skills (technical + business audiences)

Cloud & Platform Knowledge

• Strong understanding of:
  • IaaS/PaaS concepts
  • IoT/cloud integration (incl. Azure services)
  • Containerization and modern infrastructure

Preferred Qualifications

• Financial Services domain experience
• Experience developing enterprise standards / reference architectures
• Exposure to multi-region enterprise solutions