Senior Cloud Identity Architect — Entra & Hybrid IAM

Madison-Davis, LLC; New York (NY); Hybrid; USD 140,000 - 200,000; Full time

Job summary

Madison-Davis, LLC is seeking a Senior Cloud Platform Architect to own the Microsoft Entra and cloud identity environment in a global financial institution. This hands-on role focuses on identity as a platform capability, maturing the enterprise identity estate and defining secure, reusable patterns for workforce and non-human identities.

The role emphasizes automation, coded guardrails, and self-service patterns, requiring architectural judgment while staying close to implementation, rollout

Qualifications

• 7+ years of identity, cloud, or infrastructure engineering experience.
• Deep hands-on Microsoft Entra ID / Azure AD in an enterprise environment.
• Hands-on Privileged Identity Management experience.
• Strong hybrid identity knowledge including Entra Connect / Azure AD Connect.

Responsibilities

• Own architecture and continuous improvement across the Microsoft Entra environment.
• Design and evolve Conditional Access, privileged-access, and entitlement controls.
• Define hybrid identity patterns across synchronization, authentication, attribute flow, and cloud-only identities.
• Establish standards for managed identities, workload identity federation, service principals, and other non-human identities.
• Create reusable identity patterns through automation, scripting, Infrastructure as Code, and platform guardrails.
• Develop architecture standards, reference designs, runbooks, and reusable implementation patterns.
• Partner with Security, Risk, Compliance, Audit, Directory Services, application teams, and cloud engineering.
• Support identity-control evidence and architecture discussions in a highly regulated environment.

Skills

Identity and access management

Microsoft Entra / Azure AD

Privileged Identity Management

Hybrid identity architecture

PowerShell scripting

Microsoft Graph API

OIDC / OAuth 2.0 / SAML

Azure RBAC / Key Vault

Stakeholder communication

Tools

Terraform

Entra External ID

Job description

Madison-Davis, LLC is seeking a Senior Cloud Platform Architect to own the Microsoft Entra and cloud identity environment in a global financial institution. This hands-on role focuses on identity as a platform capability, maturing the enterprise identity estate and defining secure, reusable patterns for workforce and non-human identities.

The role emphasizes automation, coded guardrails, and self-service patterns, requiring architectural judgment while staying close to implementation, rollout