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Identity Application Architect

United States, United Statesfull_timeVerifiedPosted 30 Jun 2026

About the role

AHEAD builds platforms for digital business. By weaving together advances in cloud infrastructure, automation and analytics, and software delivery, we help enterprises deliver on the promise of digital transformation.

At AHEAD, we prioritize creating a culture of belonging, where all perspectives and voices are represented, valued, respected, and heard. We create spaces to empower everyone to speak up, make change, and drive the culture at AHEAD.

We are an equal opportunity employer, and do not discriminate based on an individual's race, national origin, color, gender, gender identity, gender expression, sexual orientation, religion, age, disability, marital status, or any other protected characteristic under applicable law, whether actual or perceived.

We embrace all candidates that will contribute to the diversification and enrichment of ideas and perspectives at AHEAD.

The Senior Identity Application Architect, CIAM/IAM, is responsible for leading the architecture, design, and evolution of identity solutions that support secure, scalable, and resilient customer and workforce access across the organization.

This role defines target-state architecture and implementation patterns for customer identity and access management and enterprise identity and access management, including authentication, authorization, federation, lifecycle orchestration, delegated administration, and identity data flows across cloud and enterprise platforms.

The architect partners with cybersecurity, infrastructure, application owners, product teams, and business stakeholders to translate business, security, privacy, and user experience requirements into practical identity architectures. This role also provides technical leadership for integrations across platforms such as Okta, Auth0, Azure, AWS, Salesforce, ServiceNow, and custom applications, with an emphasis on security, reliability, maintainability, and business enablement.

Duties/Responsibilities

Lead the architecture and design of CIAM and IAM solutions supporting secure customer, partner, and workforce identity use cases across digital and enterprise environments, including authentication, authorization, federation, lifecycle automation, and secure access patterns.

Define reference architectures, technical standards, guardrails, and integration patterns for identity services and applications using protocols and technologies such as OAuth 2.0, OpenID Connect, SAML, SCIM, LDAP, REST APIs, webhooks, and event-driven architectures.

Architect and guide implementation of identity-enabled applications, APIs, portals, and workflows, including customer onboarding, workforce onboarding, joiner-mover-leaver processes, access requests, delegated administration, MFA, identity proofing, registration, account recovery, consent, and progressive profiling.

Drive architecture decisions for identity data models, directory strategy, attribute governance, role, group, and policy design, and integrations across HR, CRM, ITSM, cloud, and other enterprise platforms.

Evaluate and improve identity platforms, integrations, and access patterns to reduce risk, technical debt, and operational friction while ensuring resilience, scalability, observability, auditability, privacy, and compliance by design.

Produce architecture diagrams, standards, roadmaps, decision records, and implementation guidance, and lead design reviews, governance activities, and stakeholder communication to align delivery with security requirements and strategic objectives.

Mentor engineers and administrators, collaborate with vendors and internal teams, and stay current on IAM and CIAM trends, threats, standards, and capabilities to drive continuous improvement and informed architectural recommendations.