10+ years of experience in Identity, IAM, Cybersecurity, Infrastructure, or Enterprise Architecture.
7+ years of hands-on IAM Architecture or Senior IAM Engineering experience in a large enterprise environment.
Strong experience with Microsoft Active Directory, Microsoft Entra ID, hybrid identity, directory synchronization, authentication, authorization, Conditional Access, MFA and privileged access.
Experience with at least 2 enterprise IAM platforms; Saviynt preferred and SailPoint accepted.
Experience with CyberArk or comparable PAM platforms, Privileged Access Management, secrets management and privileged identity controls.
Strong IAM governance and identity lifecycle management experience, including Joiner/Mover/Leaver, access requests, access reviews, roles, entitlements, RBAC, Segregation of Duties, least privilege, privileged access and exception management.
Experience designing identity architecture for human identities, service accounts, application identities, workload identities, privileged identities and other non-human identities.
Strong experience with SSO, MFA, Conditional Access, federation, identity proofing, adaptive access and application integration.
Experience with APIs, connectors, SCIM, SAML, OAuth 2.0, OpenID Connect and related identity protocols.
Strong experience with Azure and AWS identity and security models, including cloud identity, account structures, roles, permissions and governance.
Experience translating business, security, regulatory and operational requirements into architecture decisions, detailed requirements, implementation sequencing and transition plans.
Experience reviewing IAM designs for least privilege, resiliency, supportability, auditability and security standards.
Experience with IAM target-state architecture, reference patterns, principles, standards, technology roadmaps, operating models and governance.
Experience creating architecture documentation, decision records, data flows, integration diagrams, control mappings and operational standards.
Experience addressing identity data quality, orphaned accounts, stale identities, over-provisioned access, service-account ownership and privileged-access risks.
Experience with identity monitoring, detection, incident response and security-tool integration.
Hands-on experience with PowerShell, Python, APIs, data exports and automation.
Strong stakeholder management across IAM, identity engineering, application, cloud, security operations, audit, compliance and organizational change management.
Ability to analyze complex environments, make architecture decisions, document solutions and influence technical and business stakeholders.
PREFERRED
Experience with electric utilities, critical infrastructure, NERC CIP, SOX, IT General Controls, or similarly regulated environments.
Experience with Identity Threat Detection and Response (ITDR), Identity Security Posture Management, service-account governance and non-human identity programs.
Experience building identity standards, operating models, roadmaps and governance forums.
Certifications: CISSP, CISM, CISA, CRISC, Microsoft Identity/Security, Saviynt, SailPoint, CyberArk, AWS, or Azure.
Must be able to work onsite 2–3 days/week in the Dallas-Fort Worth area