Identity Architect
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.
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