IAM Architect / AI / Enterprise Platforms (Onsite / Local)

Job Title: IAM Architect / AI / Enterprise Platforms

Location: NYC, NYC (3 days onsite minimum)

Duration: 11 months

Look for Local resouces as first priority, or someone who can relocate to NYC

Job Summary:

Overview

Senior architect role focused on identity, access management, AI integration, and enterprise-scale platforms.

Core Responsibilities

Architecture & Design

• Define reference architectures and reusable patterns for AI agent identities, authentication, authorization, credential/token handling, and auditability across enterprise applications
• Design secure access models for workflows, customers, and workloads
• Partner with application teams to integrate modern auth protocols (OIDC/SAML) and service-to-service communication patterns
• Build AI-enabled solutions using enterprise platforms, connectors, APIs, and orchestration capabilities
• Define modular, scalable architecture covering APIs, middleware, policy enforcement, and lifecycle management

Improve AI/ML processes including:

• Access request flows
• Policy validation
• Intelligent analytics
• Documentation automation

Governance & Security

Implement AI control frameworks including:

• Model controls and guardrails
• Auditability and signed-to-NIST / risk frameworks
• Apply AI security standards including OWASP Top 10 for LLM applications and MITRE ATLAS
• Ensure governance, compliance, and privacy are embedded in architecture

Required Qualifications

Technical & Domain Expertise

• Experience implementing:
• Enterprise IAM systems (Azure AD/Entra, Okta)
• Identity lifecycle management and privileged access management
• OAuth, SAML, LDAP, Kerberos, and API security
• Strong knowledge of:
• AI/ML and platform engineering
• Microservices and distributed architectures
• Cloud-native patterns

Engineering Skills

• Front-end: SPA frameworks (React/Angular) and JavaScript/TypeScript ecosystem
• Back-end: Java/.NET, microservices, traditional 3-tier architecture
• Scripting: Linux shell and PowerShell
• Documentation and communication skills (technical + business audiences)

Cloud & Platform Knowledge

Strong understanding of:

• IaaS/PaaS concepts
• IoT/cloud integration (incl. Azure services)
• Containerization and modern infrastructure

Preferred Qualifications

• Financial Services domain experience
• Experience developing enterprise standards / reference architectures
• Exposure to multi-region enterprise solutions