Pillar Lead, Identity Architect (Zero Trust)

Socket.dev; United States; Remote; USD 140,000 - 190,000; Full time

Job summary

True Zero Technologies seeks an Identity Architect to lead the Identity pillar and establish reusable Zero Trust identity architecture patterns. You will define identity relationships, authentication and authorization models, access policy, privileged access approaches, and integration requirements across VA systems.

The role collaborates with application, network, device, data, and automation teams to ensure identity context informs enterprise use cases and implementations.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Cybersecurity, Information Systems, or a related field.
• Seven or more years of identity and access management architecture or engineering experience.
• Deep knowledge of federation, SSO, MFA, conditional access, PKI, PAM, identity governance, and modern authentication protocols.
• Strong understanding of Zero Trust identity principles and policy-based access control.
• Experience integrating identity services across cloud, hybrid, and legacy environments.

Responsibilities

• Develop identity-centric architecture patterns for enterprise Zero Trust Use Cases.
• Define authentication, authorization, federation, identity proofing, privileged access, conditional access, and lifecycle integration requirements.
• Map identity signals to policy decision and enforcement points across applications, networks, devices, and workloads.
• Assess existing identity technologies for interoperability, consolidation opportunities, and alignment to target-state Zero Trust capabilities.
• Support system implementation plans, pilots, testing, validation, and architecture reviews.
• Document identity dependencies, deviations, risks, and lessons learned for reuse across future implementation waves.

Skills

Identity & Access Management

Zero Trust

Federation

SSO

MFA

Conditional access

PKI

PAM

Identity governance

Modern authentication protocols

Identity in Cloud & Hybrid

Education

Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Cybersecurity, Information Systems, or a related field

Job description

True Zero Technologies seeks an Identity Architect to lead the Identity pillar and establish reusable Zero Trust identity architecture patterns. You will define identity relationships, authentication and authorization models, access policy, privileged access approaches, and integration requirements across VA systems.

The role collaborates with application, network, device, data, and automation teams to ensure identity context informs enterprise use cases and implementations.