Identity Architect

  • Australia
  • Melbourne
  • Contract
  • AU$1200 - AU$1400 per day

Overview
As an Identity Architect, you’ll design and govern enterprise Identity and Access Management (IAM) solutions that deliver secure, scalable, and compliant access to systems and data across a federal government agency. You’ll provide strategic leadership across identity platforms-partnering with Security, application, and business stakeholders-to embed modern authentication, authorisation, and governance practices aligned to organisational objectives and risk requirements.

You’ll shape the enterprise identity architecture and establish design authority through clear target-state architecture, standards, and reusable patterns. You’ll also provide architectural oversight and decision guidance to ensure identity solutions are defensible, auditable, and consistent.

Key Responsibilities

  • Own the enterprise identity architecture and drive target-state design
  • Provide design authority: set standards, patterns, and governance for IAM solutions
  • Lead architectural oversight across projects, ensuring solutions are auditable and compliant
  • Support migration strategies and integration approaches for identity platforms
  • Facilitate design reviews, document key decisions, and mentor engineers and stakeholders
  • Govern identity platforms using modern automation and infrastructure practices, including policy-as-code

Required Skills & Experience

  • 5+years’ experience designing and implementing enterprise-scale identity solutions, including:
    • Active Directory Domain Services (AD DS)
    • AD FS
    • Microsoft Entra ID (Azure AD) and related identity tooling
  • Significant experience designing federated/hybrid identity at enterprise scale, including:
    • Target-state architecture
    • Migration strategies
    • Integration patterns
  • Demonstrated expertise with:
    • AD DS
    • Active Directory Federation Services
    • On-prem Active Directory and Azure AD synchronisation using Azure AD Connect
    • Azure Active Directory (or equivalent)
    • Certificate Management
  • Demonstrated ability to administer and govern identity platforms using:
    • Automation
    • Infrastructure-as-Code (scripting, configuration management, policy-as-code) with a focus on repeatability and auditability
  • Strong communication skills with the ability to collaborate across multi-disciplinary and geographically dispersed teams

Nice to Have

  • Experience aligning identity and privileged access capabilities to organisational roadmaps (e.g., CFC), including reducing reliance on external vendors
  • Ability to translate complex identity concepts into clear stakeholder-ready decisions

Preferred Qualifications

  • Relevant tertiary qualifications or equivalent industry experience
  • 5+ years of enterprise-scale identity architecture and implementation experience (required)

Security Requirement

  • NV1 Security Clearance

Contact
For more information, contact Jarrodd at jarrodd.edwards@talentinternational or call 0438 661 623.

For over 30 years Talent has been redefining the contracting experience with industry leading support, exclusive contractor benefits & a world-class digital platform ENGAGE to access it all. Apply today to see how we can elevate your career

Apply now

Submit your details and attach your resume below. Hint: make sure all relevant experience is included in your CV and keep your message to the hiring team short and sweet - 2000 characters or less is perfect.