Enterprise Identity Platform Lead: Okta & Zero Trust

Archer; Malvern (Chester County); Hybrid; USD 150,000 - 190,000; Full time

Job summary

Archer, in partnership with Vanguard, seeks a Senior Lead Identity Engineer to provide technical leadership for workforce identity platforms with deep Okta expertise. You will own end-to-end identity architecture across authentication, federation, and directory integrations in large, resilient environments.

The role requires 12+ years in IAM, hands-on engineering across AWS/GCP, Kubernetes, and policy-as-code, and the ability to communicate complex security architectures to executives while

Qualifications

• 12+ years in Identity & Access Management engineering.
• Deep hands-on expertise with Okta (Workforce Identity, MFA, SSO, policies, lifecycle).
• Experience designing enterprise-scale identity platforms and integrations.

Responsibilities

• Lead identity platform engineering and set technical direction.
• Own end-to-end identity architecture, including authentication flows and federation.
• Document architecture and mentor engineers across teams.

Skills

IAM engineering

Technical leadership

Okta expertise

Cross-functional collaboration

Security architecture

Education

Bachelor's degree or higher

Tools

PingFederate

PingOne

Ping Directory

Kubernetes

Terraform

CloudFormation

AWS / GCP / Azure

Job description

Archer, in partnership with Vanguard, seeks a Senior Lead Identity Engineer to provide technical leadership for workforce identity platforms with deep Okta expertise. You will own end-to-end identity architecture across authentication, federation, and directory integrations in large, resilient environments.

The role requires 12+ years in IAM, hands-on engineering across AWS/GCP, Kubernetes, and policy-as-code, and the ability to communicate complex security architectures to executives while