IAM Solution Architect (Contract | Madison, WI or Remote)

Beacon Hill Staffing Group; Madison (WI); Hybrid; USD 83,000 - 165,000; Full time

Job summary

Beacon Hill Staffing Group is seeking a Senior IAM Solution Architect for a contract engagement in the Madison, Wisconsin area. The role is primarily remote with occasional on-site Madison meetings and requires availability during U.S. Central Time business hours.

Duration spans November 16, 2026 to May 14, 2027, with a weekly workload of about 32–40 hours. The candidate will lead architecture and implementation across Microsoft Active Directory, Microsoft Entra ID, and hybrid identity, focusing

Qualifications

• Extensive professional experience with enterprise Identity and Access Management.
• Senior/principal-level IAM engineering or solution architecture experience.
• Strong hands-on expertise with Microsoft Active Directory and Microsoft Entra ID.
• Experience with SSO, federation, MFA, Conditional Access, privileged access, and identity lifecycle management.
• Experience supporting complex migrations, environment separations, or enterprise transformation programs.
• Ability to operate independently and meet aggressive deadlines.

Responsibilities

• Assess current IAM architectures, integrations, configurations, dependencies, and future-state access patterns.
• Identify architectural gaps, security risks, and technical constraints.
• Design practical current-state, transitional, and target-state IAM solutions.
• Evaluate hybrid identity synchronization and authentication flows.
• Produce implementation-ready architecture and technical documentation.
• Troubleshoot IAM issues spanning users, groups, applications, infrastructure, service identities, and directories.

Skills

IAM engineering

Active Directory

Entra ID

Hybrid identity

SSO

MFA

Conditional Access

Architecture design

Migration & cutover

Issue troubleshooting

Tools

Microsoft Entra ID

Active Directory

Job description

Position Type: Contract Duration: November 16, 2026 - May 14, 2027 Schedule: Approximately 32-40 hours/week initially Work Arrangement: Primarily remote with availability during U.S. Central Time business hours. Occasional onsite meetings in the Madison, Wisconsin area may be required.

Position Summary

We are seeking an experienced, hands-on Senior IAM Solution Architect to provide architecture and technical leadership for a critical enterprise environment-separation initiative.

The role will focus on rapidly evaluating the existing IAM environment, identifying architectural and integration gaps, and developing practical, implementation-ready solutions. The architect will work extensively across Microsoft Active Directory, Microsoft Entra ID, hybrid identity, application access, authentication, authorization, and identity security controls.

This is an execution-focused technical architecture role, rather than a general IAM advisory, assessment-only, or project management position.

Key Responsibilities

IAM Architecture & Solution Design

• Assess current IAM architectures, integrations, configurations, dependencies, and future-state access patterns.
• Identify architectural gaps, security risks, and technical constraints.
• Design practical current-state, transitional, and target-state IAM solutions.
• Evaluate identity trust boundaries, authentication methods, directory dependencies, authorization models, and cross-environment access.
• Produce implementation-ready architecture and technical documentation.

Active Directory & Microsoft Entra ID

• Analyze and troubleshoot AD and Entra ID environments.
• Design and validate security groups, nested groups, entitlement mappings, and group-based application assignments.
• Evaluate hybrid identity synchronization and authentication flows.
• Address directory trusts and dependencies between separated environments.
• Troubleshoot authentication, authorization, identity integration, and group membership issues.

Application & Business Integration

• Partner with application owners, business stakeholders, cloud teams, infrastructure engineers, and cybersecurity personnel.
• Translate application and business access requirements into IAM solutions.
• Resolve identity issues involving users, applications, administrators, service accounts, and system integrations.
• Facilitate technical sessions to resolve migration blockers.

Identity Security

• Design solutions involving SSO, federation, MFA, Conditional Access, privileged access, and identity lifecycle management.
• Evaluate provisioning/deprovisioning and joiner/mover/leaver requirements.
• Address service accounts, machine identities, workload authentication, legacy authentication, and emergency access.
• Develop controls to prevent inappropriate cross-environment access.

Migration & Cutover

• Identify identity-related migration dependencies and sequencing requirements.
• Develop IAM migration guidance and integration specifications.
• Create cutover, access-validation, and rollback procedures.
• Support mock go-live exercises, troubleshooting, testing, and defect remediation.
• Support production cutover and post-cutover stabilization.

Required Qualifications

• Extensive professional experience with enterprise Identity and Access Management.
• Senior/principal-level IAM engineering or solution architecture experience.
• Strong hands-on expertise with Microsoft Active Directory and Microsoft Entra ID.
• Deep knowledge of:
  • AD security groups and nested groups
  • Identity synchronization
  • Group-based application access
  • Authentication and authorization
  • Hybrid identity architectures
• Experience with SSO, federation, MFA, Conditional Access, privileged access, and identity lifecycle management.
• Experience supporting complex application or infrastructure migrations, environment separations, or enterprise transformation programs.
• Ability to troubleshoot IAM issues spanning users, groups, applications, infrastructure, service identities, and directories.
• Experience producing architecture diagrams, technical designs, migration procedures, testing requirements, and cutover documentation.
• Ability to operate independently and deliver under aggressive deadlines.

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience with enterprise environment segmentation or separation.
• Multiple AD domain or Entra tenant experience.
• Complex application entitlement mapping experience.
• Experience in healthcare, government contracting, or another regulated environment.
• Understanding of Zero Trust Architecture.
• Production migration rehearsal, cutover, and stabilization experience.

Beacon Hill is an equal opportunity employer and individuals with disabilities and/or protected veterans are encouraged to apply.

California residents: Qualified applications with arrest or conviction records will be considered for employment in accordance with the Los Angeles County Fair Chance Ordinance for Employers and the California Fair Chance Act.

Benefits Information

Beacon Hill offers a robust benefit package including, but not limited to, medical, dental, vision, and federal and state leave programs as required by applicable agency regulations to those that meet eligibility. Upon successfully being hired, details will be provided related to our benefit offerings.

We look forward to working with you.

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