Senior Identity & Access Architect — Enterprise IAM SME

Ignite IT; Suitland (MD); On-site; USD 120,000 - 180,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

401(k)

401(k) matching

Dental insurance

Flexible spending account

Health insurance

Life insurance

Paid time off

Professional development assistance

Referral program

Tuition reimbursement

Vision insurance

Job summary

Ignite IT is seeking an experienced IDMS Subject Matter Expert to provide senior technical expertise in enterprise identity, directory services, and access-management across Government Agency modernization initiatives. The role spans architecture, integration, and operational-readiness for secure identity solutions supporting field operations and enterprise applications.

Strong collaboration with security, cloud, and application teams is essential.

Qualifications

• 8+ years of progressive experience in enterprise IAM, directory services, identity engineering, cybersecurity, systems engineering, or related discipline.

Responsibilities

• Serve as senior SME for enterprise identity-management and directory-service architecture.
• Assess current identity architectures, configurations, security controls and dependencies.
• Develop current-state, target-state, and transition architectures for identity-management capabilities.
• Design and support enterprise SSO, federation, authentication, authorization, MFA, and identity lifecycle-management capabilities.
• Support Microsoft Entra ID integration, Conditional Access, MFA, RBAC, identity lifecycle management, device identity, and Zero Trust controls.
• Design identity patterns for government applications operating on mobile devices, including transitions between agency apps.
• Support identity integration between Entra ID, device management, and security platforms.
• Design and troubleshoot federation using SAML 2.0, OAuth 2.0, and OpenID Connect.
• Define RBAC, least-privilege, privileged-access, service-account, and administrative-access models.
• Participate in architecture reviews, technical design reviews, and solution assessments.
• Provide technical guidance and knowledge transfer to engineering and security teams.

Skills

Identity engineering

Directory services

Zero Trust

SAML / OAuth

MFA / SSO

RBAC

Federation

Security architecture

Tools

Active Directory

Entra ID

Intune

Okta

PKI

Job description

Ignite IT is seeking an experienced IDMS Subject Matter Expert to provide senior technical expertise in enterprise identity, directory services, and access-management across Government Agency modernization initiatives. The role spans architecture, integration, and operational-readiness for secure identity solutions supporting field operations and enterprise applications.

Strong collaboration with security, cloud, and application teams is essential.