Identity & Access Management Architect

Accenture Nordics; Stockholms kommun; Hybrid; SEK 900,000 - 1,300,000; Full time

Job summary

Accenture Nordics in Sweden seeks a senior Identity Architect to own the target-state IAM design, define the roadmap, and align trade-offs with business needs. This client‑facing role requires credibility to make technical calls while grounding them in business context, including secure AI adoption.

You will lead cross‑disciplinary teams across security, technology and enterprise IT to shape patterns, guide delivery, and ensure integration with complex estates.

Qualifications

• Deep IAM experience with design ownership and governance.
• Ability to translate business needs into a scalable identity solution.
• Strong understanding of software architecture and integration patterns.
• Breadth across cloud, enterprise integration, directory services.
• 6+ years of relevant experience.
• Fluent Swedish and English.
• Stockholm, Göteborg or Malmö; hybrid working pattern.

Responsibilities

• Own the target-state identity architecture for a client and the roadmap that gets them there, sequencing the work and defending the trade-offs.
• Advise senior client stakeholders, translating what the business needs into an identity solution they can commit to and that will stand up over time.
• Lead the design across a programme and guide the people delivering it.
• Identify patterns and integration challenges that will shape programme success and help the team navigate them.
• Help shape new work, bringing design credibility into proposals as well as delivery.

Skills

Identity & access management

Architectural thinking

Stakeholder leadership

Cloud & integration

Security architecture

Education

Relevant degree

Postgraduate qualification

Tools

SailPoint

Saviynt

Okta

Ping

Microsoft Entra ID

Job description

The role

You'll shape how large organisations design and run identity and access, owning the target architecture and the roadmap to reach it, and advising the security and technology leaders who depend on it. You'll weigh the trade-offs, lead the design across a programme, and guide the team building it. It's a client-facing role that combines the credibility to make the technical calls with the judgement to keep them tied to what the business actually needs. Increasingly that means helping clients adopt AI securely. As AI expands the range of identities that need governing — including machine and non-human ones — the quality of the foundational architecture matters more, not less. You'll work across sectors, bringing design thinking into organisations at different stages of that journey, building the kind of trusted relationships that clients come back to.

Location & working

• Stockholm, Göteborg or Malmö, Sweden
• Hybrid

About Accenture Cybersecurity

At Accenture Cybersecurity, we help organisations protect what matters most by combining deep security expertise with leading technology. We support our clients across the entire security journey, from strategy and advisory to implementation and managed security services, helping them navigate an increasingly complex threat landscape with confidence.

What You'll Do

• Own the target-state identity architecture for a client and the roadmap that gets them there, sequencing the work and defending the trade-offs.
• Advise senior client stakeholders, translating what the business needs into an identity solution they can commit to and that will stand up over time.
• Lead the design across a programme and guide the people delivering it.
• Identify the patterns and integration challenges that will shape whether the programme succeeds in practice, and help the team navigate them.
• Help shape new work, bringing design credibility into proposals as well as delivery.

What We’re Looking For

• Depth in identity and access management, with a track record of owning design decisions and defending them. You can reason about how to build a capability an organisation can actually adopt, not just deploy or maintain a single product such as SailPoint, Saviynt, Okta, Ping or Microsoft Entra ID.
• Comfort across both the functional and technical sides of identity, and the stakeholder skill to lead a client conversation at the level of security and technology leadership.
• A solid grasp of software architecture, integration patterns, and application onboarding, and how they shape an identity design.
• Enough breadth in adjacent disciplines — cloud, enterprise integration, directory services — to design a solution that actually fits the client’s technical context.
• Around 6+ years of relevant experience.
• Fluent Swedish and English.
• Based in Stockholm, Göteborg or Malmö, on a hybrid pattern.
• Comfortable working across sectors and adapting a design to each client's context.

Nice to have

• A relevant degree, ideally with a postgraduate qualification.
• Security or enterprise-architecture certifications (e.g. CISSP, CISM, SABSA, TOGAF).
• Design depth across more than one identity platform, or on enterprise-scale estates with demanding integration needs.
• Breadth beyond IAM into the wider security or cloud-architecture picture.

What We Offer

A place to grow and learn, on work that carries real weight. The decisions you help clients make are the ones they build on for years, and the relationships you build often last longer than any single programme. You'll do it alongside a Sweden-based identity team within Accenture's wider security practice, with the scale of a global firm behind a long career and the scope to move across industries and geographies. As clients transform and adopt AI, the demand for architects who can design trustworthy access only grows.

About Accenture

Accenture is a leading global professional services company that helps the world's leading businesses, governments and other organizations build their digital core, optimize their operations, accelerate revenue growth and enhance citizen services—creating tangible value at speed and scale. We are a talent- and innovation-led company with approximately 791,000 people serving clients in more than 120 countries. Technology is at the core of change today, and we are one of the world's leaders in helping drive that change, with strong ecosystem relationships. We combine our strength in technology and leadership in cloud, data and AI with unmatched industry experience, functional expertise and global delivery capability. Our broad range of services, solutions and assets across Strategy & Consulting, Technology, Operations, Industry X and Song, together with our culture of shared success and commitment to creating