Enterprise IAM Architect, VP

Key Responsibilities

• Define and maintain the global IAM target state and multi-year maturity roadmap (crawl → walk → run).
• Establish enterprise-wide IAM architectural standards and reference patterns used by regional and platform teams.
• Own and curate the Enterprise IAM Pattern Book, ensuring patterns are reusable, authoritative, and consistently applied.
• Set global direction for authorization models, including RBAC and the evolution toward ABAC / PBAC where appropriate.
• Act as the design authority for IAM, including decisions on global standards versus managed regional exceptions.
• Ensure IAM architecture aligns to regulatory and control frameworks (e.g., NIST CRI, NIST CSF, internal risk standards).
• Partner with risk, compliance, audit, and security leadership to ensure IAM controls are defensible and auditable by design.

Metrics & Maturity Management

• Define global IAM success metrics and maturity indicators in partnership with IAM Governance and Standards teams.
• Ensure metrics support visibility into adoption, control coverage, exception trends, and risk reduction.
• Use metrics to guide architectural evolution and prioritize improvements across regions and platforms.

Collaboration & Enablement

• Work closely with Workforce Identity, Cloud IAM, Machine Identity, and Governance architects to ensure consistent execution of global standards.
• Provide architectural guidance and review for major IAM initiatives and platform integrations.
• Influence senior stakeholders across technology, security, and business teams without direct authority.

Required Qualifications

• 10+ years of experience in identity, access management, security architecture, or related enterprise architecture roles.
• Demonstrated experience defining enterprise-level IAM strategies, standards, or reference architectures.
• Strong understanding of authentication, authorization, identity lifecycle, privileged access, and governance concepts.
• Experience working in regulated environments (e.g., financial services, healthcare, critical infrastructure).
• Proven ability to influence senior technical and non-technical stakeholders.

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience operating in global or federated organizations with regional autonomy.
• Familiarity with IAM maturity models and large-scale transformation programs.
• Experience aligning IAM architecture to risk, audit, and regulatory frameworks.
• Background collaborating with cloud, platform, and security architecture teams.