Identify Architect

Mobile Apps US; United States; Remote; USD 140,000 - 180,000; Full time

Job summary

Mobile Apps US is seeking an Identity Architect to lead a major migration from Okta to Microsoft Entra ID. You will define coexistence, federation, and authentication patterns, while ensuring governance and business continuity. The role requires senior stakeholder engagement and proven enterprise IAM design experience.

Responsibilities include guiding pilot teams, approving integration patterns, and ensuring compliance with licensing and security requirements across current and target states.

Qualifications

• Experience designing enterprise IAM architectures.
• Ability to communicate with senior stakeholders and guide migrations.
• Knowledge of federation, CA, and identity governance.

Responsibilities

• Lead current-state assessment and target-state Entra ID architecture.
• Define coexistence, federation, authentication, and governance patterns.
• Own architecture decisions and technical design reviews.
• Validate alignment with licensing, security, and continuity requirements.
• Guide migration teams and approve reusable integration patterns.

Skills

Architecture documentation

Senior stakeholder engagement

Current-state vs target-state identity

Tools

Microsoft Entra ID

Okta

SAML

OIDC/OAuth

SCIM

Conditional Access

MFA

Identity governance

Active Directory

Job description

Location: Remote but preference someone in Novi, Michigan

JD:

Key: This will be a key customer-facing position responsible for leading discovery, understanding business and technical requirements, defining the current and target-state identity architecture, establishing coexistence and authentication strategies, and guiding the overall migration design and approach. candidates with strong Okta, Microsoft Entra ID, enterprise IAM architecture, federation, Conditional Access, PIM, identity governance, and customer-facing architecture experience.

Role Purpose

The Identity Architect will support the Lineage Okta to Microsoft Entra ID transformation as part of the Program, Architecture & Governance workstream. The role will contribute to a controlled, governance-led migration that protects business continuity, validates rollback readiness, and prepares the future-state environment for operational ownership.

Key Responsibilities

• Lead current-state assessment and target-state Microsoft Entra ID architecture.
• Define coexistence, federation, authentication, Conditional Access, lifecycle, governance, privileged access and recovery patterns.
• Own architecture decisions, standards, exceptions and technical design authority reviews.
• Validate solution alignment with licensing, security, business continuity and operational requirements.
• Guide pilot and migration teams and approve reusable integration patterns.

Required Experience and Skills

• Microsoft Entra ID, Active Directory and hybrid identity
• Okta, federation, SAML, OIDC/OAuth and SCIM
• Conditional Access, MFA, PIM and identity governance
• Architecture documentation and senior stakeholder engagement
• Current and future-state architecture
• Authentication and coexistence strategy
• Approved migration patterns and exception designs

Success Measures

• Assigned deliverables are completed to agreed quality and governance standards.
• Risks, dependencies, defects and decisions are identified early and managed transparently.
• Testing, evidence, rollback and operational-readiness requirements are completed before production progression.
• Knowledge is transferred through clear documentation, walkthroughs and support enablement.