Zero-Trust IAM & CIAM Architect

Acuity Brands, Inc.; Atlanta (GA); On-site; USD 160,000 - 220,000; Full time

Job summary

Acuity Brands, Inc. is building a modern Identity and Access Management platform to support its growing portfolio of digital products. This role will shape and deliver the unified identity strategy for employees, customers, and partners.

You will work across enterprise IAM and CIAM, leveraging platforms like Microsoft Entra ID and Okta, collaborating with engineering, security, and product teams to drive standardization, scalability, and security-first design.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in computer science, engineering, or related field.
• Minimum 8–12 years of software engineering/security/identity experience.
• Minimum 5+ years in IAM/CIAM implementations in enterprise or customer-facing environments.
• Proven experience designing and delivering identity solutions at scale.

Responsibilities

• Define and evolve IAM/CIAM architecture with Zero Trust and enterprise security.
• Design scalable authentication and authorization models across internal and customer-facing apps.
• Establish standards and reference architectures for identity services.
• Drive platform selection, integration strategy, and roadmap for identity capabilities.
• Lead design and implementation of identity solutions using Entra ID, Okta, Auth0, Ping or other IdPs.
• Ensure scalable handling of identities, tokens, sessions, and lifecycle management.
• Design self-service registration and onboarding flows for customers.
• Drive improvements in user experience, security, and scalability of CIAM.
• Implement MFA, adaptive authentication, and conditional access policies.
• Partner with engineering to integrate identity services into applications.
• Enable adoption via SDKs, APIs, and documentation.
• Operate at architectural and hands-on engineering levels.
• Experience with Azure, AWS, or GCP.

Skills

IAM architecture

CIAM

OAuth 2.0 / OIDC

Azure Entra ID / Entra ID

Security governance

Zero Trust

Public cloud platforms

Education

Bachelor's degree in computer science / engineering

Tools

Microsoft Entra ID

Okta

Auth0

Ping Identity

Kubernetes

Terraform / IAC

Job description

Acuity Brands, Inc. is building a modern Identity and Access Management platform to support its growing portfolio of digital products. This role will shape and deliver the unified identity strategy for employees, customers, and partners.

You will work across enterprise IAM and CIAM, leveraging platforms like Microsoft Entra ID and Okta, collaborating with engineering, security, and product teams to drive standardization, scalability, and security-first design.