Senior IAM Architect - Remote, Entra ID & AD

Beacon Hill Staffing Group; Santa Fe (NM); Hybrid; USD 120,000 - 180,000; Full time

Job summary

Beacon Hill Staffing Group is seeking an experienced Senior IAM Solution Architect to provide architecture and technical leadership for an enterprise IAM separation initiative. You will evaluate the current IAM environment and design practical, implementation-ready solutions focused on Active Directory, Entra ID, and hybrid identity.

The role emphasizes execution-focused technical architecture, requires strong collaboration with security, application owners, and cloud teams, and supports

Qualifications

• Extensive professional experience with enterprise Identity and Access Management.
• Senior/principal-level IAM engineering or solution architecture experience.
• Strong hands-on expertise with Microsoft Active Directory and Microsoft Entra ID.
• Knowledge of SSO, federation, MFA, Conditional Access and identity lifecycle management.
• Experience supporting complex migrations and environment separations.
• Ability to troubleshoot IAM issues across users, groups, apps, and directories.
• Ability to produce architecture diagrams, technical designs, migration procedures and cutover documentation.

Responsibilities

• Assess current IAM architectures, integrations, configurations, dependencies, and future-state access patterns.
• Identify architectural gaps, security risks, and technical constraints.
• Design practical current-state, transitional, and target-state IAM solutions.
• Evaluate identity trust boundaries, authentication methods, directory dependencies, authorization models, and cross-environment access.
• Produce implementation-ready architecture and technical documentation.
• Partner with application owners, business stakeholders, cloud teams, infrastructure engineers, and cybersecurity personnel.
• Translate application and business access requirements into IAM solutions.
• Resolve identity issues involving users, applications, administrators, service accounts, and system integrations.
• Facilitate technical sessions to resolve migration blockers.
• Develop controls to prevent inappropriate cross-environment access.

Skills

Extensive IAM engineering experience

Microsoft Active Directory

Microsoft Entra ID

Hybrid identity architectures

Authentication and authorization

Identity lifecycle management

Migration and cutover experience

Tools

Microsoft Entra Admin Center

AD security groups management

Job description

Beacon Hill Staffing Group is seeking an experienced Senior IAM Solution Architect to provide architecture and technical leadership for an enterprise IAM separation initiative. You will evaluate the current IAM environment and design practical, implementation-ready solutions focused on Active Directory, Entra ID, and hybrid identity.

The role emphasizes execution-focused technical architecture, requires strong collaboration with security, application owners, and cloud teams, and supports