Senior IAM Architect #26-16932

Duration: 12 Months

Job Description:

• Provide senior Identity and Access Management (IAM) guidance, advisory, and architecture services to support Bank objectives and cyber resilience initiatives
• Develop the strategic direction, target-state architecture, and roadmap for IAM capabilities across the Bank
• Lead the advancement of Zero Trust identity principles across users, workloads, applications, devices, services, and AI-enabled solutions
• Create enterprise IAM architectures and governance models aligned with security, privacy, operational, and regulatory requirements
• Establish authentication, authorization, and access governance patterns leveraging Microsoft Entra ID, SailPoint, CyberArk, Azure Key Vault, and related technologies
• Establish standards and design patterns for identity governance, lifecycle management, access certification, entitlement management, and privileged access
• Develop the Bank's approach to non-human identities, including service accounts, workload identities, APIs, secrets, certificates, and machine-to-machine access
• Lead the development of agentic identity management capabilities and governance models to support secure adoption of AI agents
• Implement authorization models, lifecycle controls, monitoring requirements, and governance processes for AI agent identities
• Provide architectural oversight and technical guidance for IAM initiatives, ensuring alignment with enterprise architecture, Zero Trust principles, and strategic objectives
• Review and provide guidance with solution designs, implementation approaches, and technical deliverables produced by project teams and service providers
• Identify IAM capability gaps, technology risks, and control deficiencies, and develop remediation roadmaps
• Collaborate with cybersecurity, architecture, infrastructure, cloud, application, and data teams to embed identity controls into technology solutions and business processes
• Establish security requirements and architecture guidance for cloud identity, federation, privileged access, secrets management, and emerging technologies
• Assist in the development of identity threat detection, monitoring, and response capabilities to strengthen cyber resilience and enable machine-speed operations
• Produce architecture deliverables, standards, roadmaps, governance artifacts, and executive-ready recommendations for leadership and governance forums
• Provide expert guidance and knowledge transfer to internal teams supporting IAM initiatives
• Participate in the planning, prioritization, and delivery of IAM capabilities within the Cyber Resilience Transformation Program and broader Bank IAM initiatives
• Perform other related duties and deliverables as required

Required Skills:

• University Degree or College Diploma in computer science, information security, engineering, or a related field
• A minimum of five (5) years of recent demonstrated experience in information technology, identity and access management (IAM), or cyber security
• A minimum of three (3) years of recent demonstrated experience as an IAM architect, or identity security consultant in complex, regulated environments
• Demonstrated experience assessing current-state IAM capabilities and defining target-state IAM architectures and roadmaps
• Demonstrated experience designing and governing IAM controls, including identity governance, privileged access management, authentication, authorization, and Zero Trust identity capabilities
• Demonstrated experience identifying IAM, security, and compliance control gaps and recommending risk-based improvements
• Demonstrated experience developing IAM standards, reference architectures, design patterns, and governance frameworks.

Desired Skills:

• Demonstrated Experience working in the financial sector or another highly regulated environment
• Demonstrated Experience with enterprise architecture methods or frameworks such as TOGAF, SABSA, or comparable approaches
• Relevant certifications would be considered an asset (e.g., CISSP, CISM, Microsoft, SailPoint, CyberArk, TOGAF, or SABSA)

About US Tech Solutions:
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US Tech Solutions is an Equal Opportunity Employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, colour, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability, or status as a protected veteran.

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