IAM Architect: Mastering Zero-Trust Identity & Access

K57 Skechers USA, Inc.; Rancho Santa Margarita (CA); On-site; USD 160,000 - 185,000; Full time

Job summary

Skechers USA, Inc. is seeking an Identity & Access Management Architect to shape the organization’s global identity architecture across workforce, customer, and non‑human identities.

You will lead design reviews, implement and troubleshoot IAM solutions, and translate requirements into resilient, scalable security controls across cloud and on‑prem environments. Strong focus on Zero Trust and governance.

Qualifications

• Extensive professional experience designing, implementing, integrating, securing, and supporting enterprise IAM solutions.
• Hands‑on technical architect or senior engineer responsible for complex troubleshooting in IAM.
• Relevant IAM/security/cloud/architecture certifications are a plus.
• Experience operating IAM capabilities across global, hybrid, multi‑cloud environments.
• Experience with identity threat detection, response, or exposure management preferred.

Responsibilities

• Own end‑to‑end technical architecture for workforce and customer IAM, privileges, and identity governance.
• Lead design reviews and provide guidance to IAM, application, infrastructure, cloud, and security teams.
• Design, configure, integrate, test, and troubleshoot IAM solutions including POC and production builds.
• Partner with engineers to implement designs, resolve issues, and establish operational handoffs.
• Design identity lifecycle processes for joiners, movers, leavers including contractors and contingent workers.
• Architect secure customer identity patterns with strong authentication and privacy controls.
• Advance access governance with requests, approvals, certifications, role design, and policy enforcement.
• Threat‑model IAM architectures and remediate identity attack paths and credential risks.
• Apply Zero Trust principles: phishing resistance, adaptive access, least privilege, and continuous evaluation.
• Integrate identity providers, cloud IAM, access governance, and service management patterns.

Skills

Identity lifecycle

Authentication

Authorization

Zero Trust

OAuth 2.0

SAML

Cloud IAM

Tools

Terraform

Python

APIs

Job description

Skechers USA, Inc. is seeking an Identity & Access Management Architect to shape the organization’s global identity architecture across workforce, customer, and non‑human identities.

You will lead design reviews, implement and troubleshoot IAM solutions, and translate requirements into resilient, scalable security controls across cloud and on‑prem environments. Strong focus on Zero Trust and governance.