Senior Systems Architect, Cloud & Identity (Remote)

F3 Design; United States; Remote; USD 140,000 - 165,000; Full time

Job summary

Shield Technology Partners seeks a Systems Engineer, Architecture to own the long‑term design of internal technology environments, including M365, Entra ID, Intune, Azure, and our SaaS ecosystem. You will define standards, roadmaps, and reference designs to guide two‑to‑five‑year evolution.

You will lead architecture ownership, governance, identity and access design, integration patterns, and security alignment with Zero Trust principles within the IS&T team.

Qualifications

• Ability to think in systems and lifecycles; design for the future state.
• Deep design-level experience with M365 tenancy, Entra ID, Exchange, SharePoint, Teams, and Entra ID multi-tenant scenarios.
• Expert knowledge of Intune and Apple Business Manager; policy design and zero-touch provisioning.
• Strong command of IAM design including SSO, SAML, OIDC, SCIM, conditional access, and privileged access models.
• Working knowledge of Azure; identity integration, networking fundamentals, and cloud-service integrations.
• Experience designing integrations and automation across SaaS platforms using APIs, iPaaS tools, PowerShell, Graph API.
• Familiarity with Zero Trust, encryption, MFA enforcement, and EDR security fundamentals.
• Prior exposure to technology due diligence, tenant migrations, or environment consolidation.
• Ability to explain architectural decisions to technical and non-technical stakeholders.

Responsibilities

• Define and maintain the target-state architecture for Shield's internal systems and the technology roadmap.
• Author and enforce technical standards for configuration, security baselines, naming, tenancy, and integration patterns.
• Own the identity architecture across Entra ID and connected SaaS, including SSO, SCIM provisioning, etc.
• Design how internal business systems connect, including HRIS provisioning, PSA and ticketing platforms, and automation flows.
• Assess acquired companies' technology stacks and define migration plans for tenants, identity, and endpoints.
• Lead proofs of concept and produce decision records with rationale and tradeoffs.
• Partner with IT security to embed Zero Trust principles and encryption into platform design.
• Maintain architecture diagrams and decision records for supportability by IS&T.

Skills

Architecture Mindset

Microsoft 365 & Entra ID

Endpoint Architecture

Identity & Access Management

Cloud Infrastructure

Integration & Automation

Security Fundamentals

M&A Experience

Communication

Job description

Shield Technology Partners seeks a Systems Engineer, Architecture to own the long‑term design of internal technology environments, including M365, Entra ID, Intune, Azure, and our SaaS ecosystem. You will define standards, roadmaps, and reference designs to guide two‑to‑five‑year evolution.

You will lead architecture ownership, governance, identity and access design, integration patterns, and security alignment with Zero Trust principles within the IS&T team.