Senior IAM Architect: Identity Resolution & Zero Trust

GovCIO; Olympia (WA); Remote; USD 155,000 - 175,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Employee Assistance Program

Corporate Discounts

Learning & Development platform

Training, Education and Certification

Referral Bonus Program

Internal Mobility Program

Pet Insurance

Flexible Work Environment

Job summary

GovCIO is hiring an IAM Architect specializing in Identity Resolution and Person Matching to design and lead enterprise capabilities that establish a single, trusted identity for individuals across mission and business systems at the Department of Veterans Affairs.

This fully remote role is United States‑based, with a focus on deduplication, accurate person linking, and data quality across enterprise stores.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Information Systems, or a related field.
• 12+ years of IAM engineering/architecture experience.
• 8+ years in Cybersecurity with 5+ years in IAM architecture.
• Hands-on person identity matching/identity resolution experience.
• Deep knowledge of federated identity protocols (SAML, OAuth 2.0, OIDC, SCIM, AD/LDAP).
• Familiar with NIST identity guidelines and Zero Trust concepts.
• Certifications such as CISSP, Security+ CE, CASP+ or vendor certs.

Responsibilities

• Architect and lead enterprise identity resolution and person-matching across data stores.
• Design deterministic and probabilistic record-linkage strategies for identity resolution.
• Own MPI/Enterprise Identity Index architecture including match/merge rules and survivorship logic.
• Architect identity lifecycle management and privileged access controls.
• Design and implement Zero Trust identity principles across networks and apps.
• Lead federated identity, directory services, authentication, and SSO architectures.
• Partner with data governance to define data-quality standards and auditability.
• Develop architecture diagrams, data flows, and compliance artifacts; brief stakeholders.
• Mentor IAM Engineers and provide architectural oversight of automation scripts.
• Collaborate with cross-functional teams to define requirements and deliver solutions.
• Root-cause analysis of identity-matching errors to improve pipelines.

Skills

Identity resolution

MPI architecture

Federated identity

SAML/OAuth/OIDC

Zero Trust

SSO architecture

Data governance

Education

Bachelor's degree in CS/IS or related field

Master's degree (preferred)

Tools

SailPoint

Okta

Microsoft Entra ID

Ping Identity

DigiCert

Active Directory/LDAP

SCIM

Job description

GovCIO is hiring an IAM Architect specializing in Identity Resolution and Person Matching to design and lead enterprise capabilities that establish a single, trusted identity for individuals across mission and business systems at the Department of Veterans Affairs.

This fully remote role is United States‑based, with a focus on deduplication, accurate person linking, and data quality across enterprise stores.