IAM Solutions Architect — Enterprise Identity & Access

King County, WA; Seattle (WA); Hybrid; USD 140,000 - 170,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Hybrid work model

Competitive benefits package

Job summary

King County's Department of Information Technology (KCIT) seeks a highly skilled Identity and Access Management (IAM) Solutions Architect to lead strategy and design for IAM across the County. You will develop modern identity architectures that streamline lifecycle management and simplify the enterprise identity portfolio.

As a senior member of the Security and Privacy team, you will collaborate with peer architects and IT staff to translate business requirements into long-term IAM designs,

Qualifications

• In depth experience designing and fine-tuning Enterprise Identity Architecture.
• Expert level knowledge of Active Directory and Entra ID.
• Thorough understanding of Public Key Infrastructure, Certificate Management and HSMs.
• Strong background in managing Enterprise Applications and Registrations and using Managed Identities and Service Principals.
• Good working knowledge of Privileged Access Management.
• Expert level knowledge of DNS and DHCP.
• Full understanding of Modern authentication, particularly related to Azure (SSO, Tokens, MFA, passkeys, API permissions).
• Full understanding of Group and Identity lifecycle management.
• Full understanding of Directory syncing architecture including AD Connect and Cloud Sync.
• Expansive knowledge on access tiering, management planes and privileged access workstations.
• Good knowledge of Intune and SCCM Device Management and Compliance Policies.
• Solid understanding of networking concepts, Border segments, Trusts, and Policies.

Responsibilities

• Collaborate with peer architects, service owners, and other technical staff in determining the optimum IAM designs for vendor and in-house developed application solutions.
• Translate business requirements into long-term Identity and Access architecture designs.
• Create and manage architectural strategies and roadmaps across multiple projects, functional teams, platforms, and/or technology systems to support the enterprise architecture.
• Consult with internal and external customers, stakeholders, and IT staff to align reference architectures with business and technical requirements.
• Keep up with the ever-changing IAM landscape by tracking all changes to the technologies in use as well as the security ramifications involved.
• Other duties as assigned.

Skills

Identity architecture

Active Directory

Entra ID

Public Key Infrastructure

Privileged Access Management

DNS/DHCP

Azure authentication (SSO, MFA)

Group/Identity lifecycle

AD Connect/Cloud Sync

Intune/SCCM

Networking concepts

Tools

Intune

SCCM

Azure AD

Job description

King County's Department of Information Technology (KCIT) seeks a highly skilled Identity and Access Management (IAM) Solutions Architect to lead strategy and design for IAM across the County. You will develop modern identity architectures that streamline lifecycle management and simplify the enterprise identity portfolio.

As a senior member of the Security and Privacy team, you will collaborate with peer architects and IT staff to translate business requirements into long-term IAM designs,