Senior IAM & Zero Trust Architect — Enterprise Cloud

Koitecc Solutions; Odenton, Northern (MD, KY); Hybrid; USD 154,000 - 278,000; Full time

Job summary

Leidos is seeking a Principal IAM / Zero Trust Solutions Architect to lead the design and integration of enterprise cybersecurity and mission systems. You will guide multidisciplinary teams, translate customer requirements into practical architectures, and drive modernization across cloud and on‑prem environments in federal settings.

The role requires deep IAM + Zero Trust expertise, strong leadership, and ability to engage government customers with technical briefings and solution concepts.

Qualifications

• Significant experience designing, integrating, and modernizing complex enterprise infrastructure, cybersecurity, or mission technology environments.
• Ability to translate customer mission and technical requirements into architectures, implementation approaches, and modernization roadmaps.
• Experience evaluating technologies, conducting technical trade studies or Analyses of Alternatives, and developing solution recommendations.
• Experience leading complex technical integrations across multiple infrastructure and cybersecurity domains.

Responsibilities

• Lead the architecture, design, and integration of complex enterprise infrastructure and cybersecurity solutions across cloud, on-premises, classified, and mission environments.
• Develop integrated IAM and Zero Trust solution architectures aligned with customer mission requirements and applicable DoW, NIST, and federal cybersecurity guidance.
• Assess existing technology environments, identify architectural and operational gaps, and develop modernization strategies and implementation roadmaps.
• Design and integrate identity, cloud, infrastructure, networking, security, automation, monitoring, and related enterprise capabilities.
• Apply IAM principles including authentication, authorization, federation, identity lifecycle management, privileged access, PKI, and access policy as part of broader enterprise solutions.
• Incorporate Zero Trust principles such as least privilege, continuous verification, segmentation, policy enforcement, and risk-based access into solution architectures.
• Evaluate commercial and government technologies, conduct technical trade studies and Analyses of Alternatives, and develop solution recommendations.
• Define architectural interfaces, integration dependencies, implementation approaches, and transition strategies across multiple technical domains.
• Develop architecture diagrams, technical approaches, implementation plans, test strategies, modernization roadmaps, and customer briefings.
• Provide technical leadership and direction to multidisciplinary engineering and integration teams.
• Engage directly with government customers and mission stakeholders to understand technical challenges, shape requirements, and develop practical solutions.
• Research emerging enterprise, cybersecurity, cloud, IAM, and Zero Trust technologies and assess their applicability to customer missions.
• Support technical demonstrations, solution development, capture, proposals, and on-contract growth activities.

Education

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, Systems Engineering, Cybersecurity

Job description

Leidos is seeking a Principal IAM / Zero Trust Solutions Architect to lead the design and integration of enterprise cybersecurity and mission systems. You will guide multidisciplinary teams, translate customer requirements into practical architectures, and drive modernization across cloud and on‑prem environments in federal settings.

The role requires deep IAM + Zero Trust expertise, strong leadership, and ability to engage government customers with technical briefings and solution concepts.