CIAM VP Architect: Enterprise Identity & Access

State Street; Clifton (NJ); On-site; USD 125,000 - 226,000; Full time

Job summary

State Street is seeking an experienced CIAM Architect Manager to design patterns for onboarding to a new CIAM platform. The role focuses on enterprise CIAM architecture across large, complex environments and drafts architecture across CIAM components.

You will lead design efforts for omni-channel CIAM patterns, onboarding workflows, authentication/authorization, and third-party access while aligning with NIST standards and industry best practices.

Qualifications

• Senior CIAM Architect with 5–7 years in reference and solution architecture (design pattern diagrams).
• Strong CIAM understanding with hands-on knowledge of IAM protocols (SAML, SPML, XACML, SCIM, OpenID, OAuth).
• Extensive experience with Directories, SSO, Federation, Delegated administration, API gateways, SOA services.
• Experience with CIAM delivery across multi-vendor environments (Microsoft, Okta).
• Familiarity with MFA, PAM, and risk-based authentication concepts.
• Knowledge of NIST SP 800-63 Digital Authentication standards.
• Ability to work across teams and influence security architecture decisions.
• Experience with app gateways, proxies, live chat, contact centers and web portals for CIAM.
• Ability to design omni-channel CIAM patterns and onboarding workflows.

Responsibilities

• Develop CIAM omni-channel standard patterns for onboarding to the CIAM platform.
• Define patterns for registration, authentication, authorization and third-party access.
• Evaluate current processes against industry standards (NIST CSF, NIST SP 800-53).
• Draft findings and gaps and present them to leadership.
• Collaborate with cross-functional teams across lines of business to implement CIAM patterns.

Skills

CIAM architecture

IAM protocols

SSO & Federation

API gateways

NIST SP 800-63

MFA & risk-based auth

Cross-team collaboration

Vendor IAM solutions

Solution architecture patterns

Job description

State Street is seeking an experienced CIAM Architect Manager to design patterns for onboarding to a new CIAM platform. The role focuses on enterprise CIAM architecture across large, complex environments and drafts architecture across CIAM components.

You will lead design efforts for omni-channel CIAM patterns, onboarding workflows, authentication/authorization, and third-party access while aligning with NIST standards and industry best practices.