Senior IAM Architect — AI-Driven Identity Security

Thrivent Financial; Northern (KY); On-site; USD 161,000 - 218,000; Full time

Job summary

Thrivent Financial seeks a Principal Engineer to lead Identity & Access Management strategy, shaping secure, scalable identity capabilities across the enterprise. You will drive AI-enabled threat modeling, governance, and platform patterns, partnering with executives to align identity security with product and platform goals.

You will mentor teams, advance adaptive authentication, and orchestrate threat detection, response, and policy enforcement across human and machine identities.

Qualifications

• Minimum 10+ years in security engineering or related field.
• Experience defining and executing enterprise security strategy.
• Proven ability to influence technical and executive stakeholders.
• Knowledge of threat modeling, incident response and security operations.

Responsibilities

• Provide deep technical leadership for IAM and enterprise threat modeling focused on AI-enabled attacks.
• Define scalable architectures, governance, and controls for human and non-human identities.
• Lead governance for agentic AI, machine identities and autonomous systems at scale.
• Drive AI-driven identity operations, risk-based access decisions, and anomaly detection.

Skills

Security engineering

Threat modeling

Incident response

Security operations

Stakeholder influence

Education

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Cybersecurity, or related technical field, or equivalent work experience

Job description

Thrivent Financial seeks a Principal Engineer to lead Identity & Access Management strategy, shaping secure, scalable identity capabilities across the enterprise. You will drive AI-enabled threat modeling, governance, and platform patterns, partnering with executives to align identity security with product and platform goals.

You will mentor teams, advance adaptive authentication, and orchestrate threat detection, response, and policy enforcement across human and machine identities.