IAM Engineer: Identity & Access Architect

Wade Trim; Detroit (MI); On-site; USD 110,000 - 150,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Hybrid work schedule

Job summary

Wade Trim is seeking an experienced IAM professional to design and support identity solutions across Okta, Microsoft Entra ID, Active Directory, and integrated applications. The role emphasizes secure authentication, lifecycle management, access governance, automation, and Zero Trust principles.

You will lead IAM design and integration efforts, manage onboarding/offboarding, and collaborate with People Services, IT, and business owners to deliver scalable access solutions.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in cybersecurity, computer science, information technology, or a related field, or equivalent practical experience.
• Five or more years of IAM or closely related identity security experience, including hands-on engineering, implementation, and integration work.

Responsibilities

• Engineer, implement, and maintain IAM capabilities across Okta, Microsoft Entra ID, Active Directory, and integrated applications.
• Lead IAM solution design and integration efforts, including SSO, MFA, passwordless authentication, federation, provisioning, and deprovisioning.
• Manage identity lifecycle processes for onboarding, role changes, offboarding, and access requests in partnership with People Services, IT, and business owners.
• Diagnose and resolve complex authentication, authorization, federation, and identity lifecycle issues.
• Improve IAM processes through automation, standardization, and secure self-service capabilities using PowerShell or similar scripting tools.
• Apply least privilege, RBAC, separation of duties, Conditional Access, PAM, and Zero Trust principles to reduce access risk.
• Perform access reviews, support identity governance and privileged access initiatives, and participate in audits, compliance reviews, and remediation activities.
• Develop and maintain technical documentation, standards, operational procedures, and runbooks for IAM solutions.
• Proactively identify security, reliability, efficiency, and user-experience improvements and carry them through design and implementation.
• Serve as a trusted IAM advisor by translating technical security requirements into clear, business-focused recommendations.
• Maintain current knowledge of IAM technologies, cybersecurity threats, industry practices, and emerging identity standards.
• Maintain a safe working environment.

Skills

Okta Identity Cloud

Microsoft Entra ID

SSO

MFA

passwordless authentication

Identity governance

RBAC

Zero Trust

SAML

OAuth 2.0

OIDC

SCIM

PowerShell

Education

Bachelor's degree in cybersecurity, computer science, information technology, or a related field, or equivalent practical experience

Tools

PowerShell

Job description

Wade Trim is seeking an experienced IAM professional to design and support identity solutions across Okta, Microsoft Entra ID, Active Directory, and integrated applications. The role emphasizes secure authentication, lifecycle management, access governance, automation, and Zero Trust principles.

You will lead IAM design and integration efforts, manage onboarding/offboarding, and collaborate with People Services, IT, and business owners to deliver scalable access solutions.