Enterprise / IAM Architect (Remote)

Position: Enterprise / IAM Architect (Remote)

Location: Remote (USA)
Duration: Long-Term Contract

Overview:

We are seeking a collaborative, respectful, and visionary Enterprise Architect who is passionate about improving software quality and building scalable, secure, and high-performing systems.

The ideal candidate will focus on improving code quality, testability, and maintainability through standard design practices, architecture governance, and reduction of duplication of effort.

Key Responsibilities:

• Improve code quality and maintainability by enforcing design standards and removing duplication of effort.
• Contribute to the overall Enterprise Architecture strategic plan, developing and promoting architecture frameworks and guidelines.
• Analyze complex business and technical problems related to new technology implementations or customization of existing solutions.
• Collaborate with business executives and technology teams to conceptualize new applications, recommend technologies, and define architecture and design approaches.
• Author and review architecture, design, and technical documentation ensuring high-quality deliverables across teams.
• Review code and technical solutions to ensure both functional and non-functional requirements are met.
• Provide technical guidance and mentorship across teams to ensure reusability, scalability, and high-quality design.
• Partner with application teams as a trusted advisor for compliance and adoption of best practices in cloud-based microservice development.
• Support performance tuning, scalability, and reliability initiatives, and provide consultation for testing strategies.
• Enforce architecture standards, frameworks, and governance to ensure alignment with target state architecture.
• Work closely with cybersecurity and web security teams to ensure all implemented solutions meet compliance and security standards.
• Create Level 1 architecture diagrams (Vehicle-to-Cloud, Channel-to-Cloud, and System Architecture) for connected and distributed systems.
• Maintain application-level roadmaps and long-term strategic plans aligned with enterprise architecture and release management processes.

Qualifications / Must-Haves:

• 10+ years of experience in Information Technology, including 5 8+ years in architecture roles.
• Mastery in at least one major application development language: Java, Golang, or Python.
• Experience in Service-Oriented and Microservices Architecture, preferably using Kubernetes.
• Strong understanding of AWS Cloud, SecDevOps, and Site Reliability Engineering (SRE) principles.
• Skilled in system representation using UML or C4 diagrams for architecture visualization.
• Deep knowledge of authentication and authorization standards such as OpenID, SAML, OAuth, JWT, X.509, MTLS, etc.
• Conceptual understanding of TOGAF and familiarity with service mesh and TechRadar practices.
• Strong communication skills to translate complex technical solutions into business language.
• Experience creating architecture artifacts, technical solution documents, and presentations.