Senior Enterprise Identity Architect

Insight Global

Saint Paul (MN)

On-site

USD 130,000 - 190,000

Full time

14 days+

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Job summary

Insight Global is seeking an experienced Senior Identity Architect to define and maintain the target-state enterprise identity architecture across IAM, IGA, PAM, directories, federation, and authentication/authorization. You will establish standards, guardrails, and decision frameworks to enable secure, repeatable implementations across teams.

You will partner with platform owners, engineering, audit, risk, compliance, and security operations to align identity capabilities with business

Qualifications

Bachelor’s degree in computer science, information systems, cybersecurity, engineering, business, or related discipline.
10+ years of IT, cybersecurity, infrastructure, or identity & access management.
5+ years designing or governing enterprise identity solutions in hybrid or cloud environments.
Experience with AD, Entra ID, IGA, PAM, SSO, federation, and certificate lifecycle management.
Translate security, audit, compliance, and operational requirements into architecture standards.
Strong understanding of identity lifecycle, access governance, and least privilege.
Ability to evaluate risk, document decisions, and influence multiple teams.
Excellent communication with technical and business stakeholders.
Experience with human, privileged, service, and non-human identities.

Responsibilities

Define and maintain target-state enterprise identity architecture across IAM, IGA, PAM, directories, federation, authentication, authorization, and external identity platforms.
Establish architecture patterns, standards, guardrails, and decision frameworks for secure, repeatable implementations.
Serve as design authority for identity solutions introducing new access models, trust boundaries, or audit implications.
Partner with platform owners, engineering, audit, risk, compliance, and security operations to align identity with business requirements.
Drive integration across identity platforms so lifecycle, access governance, and audit evidence operate cohesively.
Translate audit findings and control gaps into architectural improvements.
Guide modernization across cloud identity, privileged access, identity governance, and directory security.
Develop roadmaps for identity platform evolution, transitions, and risk reduction.
Provide architectural direction for incident response and remediation planning.
Communicate decisions, risks, and tradeoffs clearly to teams and leadership.