Cloud Identity Platform Architect

Mizuho Financial Group Inc.; New York (NY); Hybrid; USD 112,000 - 205,000; Full time

Job summary

Mizuho Financial Group, Inc. seeks a Cloud Platform Architect specializing in identity to own our Microsoft Entra estate, leading authentication design, access policy, and hybrid identity as a core platform capability within the Cloud Platform team.

This role requires deep Entra ID experience in a regulated financial environment, ownership of external identity architecture, and the ability to turn policy into guardrails via code, with a strong emphasis on security and compliance.

Qualifications

• 7+ years in identity or infrastructure engineering.
• Proven experience with Microsoft Entra ID at enterprise scale.
• Experience in regulated financial services or similarly regulated environments.
• Strong knowledge of authentication standards: OIDC, OAuth 2.0, SAML.

Responsibilities

• Own the Microsoft Entra estate configurations and policies.
• Design hybrid identity and synchronization boundaries across systems.
• Develop identity patterns for platform services and service principals.
• Implement external and partner identity architecture per cloud roadmap.
• Publish reusable identity designs and Terraform modules for standardization.
• Collaborate with Security, Risk, and Compliance to integrate controls and evidence.

Skills

Entra ID

IAM

Hybrid identity

Azure Policy

RBAC

Graph API

PowerShell

Tools

Terraform

Azure AD Connect

Job description

Mizuho Financial Group, Inc. seeks a Cloud Platform Architect specializing in identity to own our Microsoft Entra estate, leading authentication design, access policy, and hybrid identity as a core platform capability within the Cloud Platform team.

This role requires deep Entra ID experience in a regulated financial environment, ownership of external identity architecture, and the ability to turn policy into guardrails via code, with a strong emphasis on security and compliance.