Job Title: Saviynt Architect – Cybersecurity
Location: Dallas / NJ / Charlette (Onsite)
Employment Type: Contract / Full-Time
Experience: 12–18 Years Overall IT Experience
Relevant Experience: 5+ Years in IAM/IGA, with strong hands-on Saviynt experience
Important Hiring Note: This is an Architect-level requirement, not a Saviynt Developer or Support Engineer position. Candidates must demonstrate ownership of architecture, solution design, technical decisions, enterprise integrations, and implementation strategy. Candidates with only Saviynt administration or production support experience should not be shortlisted.
Role Overview
We are seeking an experienced Saviynt Architect to lead the architecture, design, implementation, and evolution of enterprise Identity Governance and Administration (IGA) solutions.
The candidate will be responsible for defining and driving the Saviynt Enterprise Identity Cloud (EIC) architecture across a complex enterprise environment, ensuring secure identity lifecycle management, access governance, application integrations, and regulatory compliance.
The ideal candidate should have extensive experience in Cybersecurity, Identity and Access Management (IAM), and Identity Governance and Administration (IGA), with deep expertise in Saviynt architecture, solution design, integration frameworks, and enterprise-scale implementations.
Experience working with large banking or financial services organizations is highly desirable.
Key Responsibilities
1. Enterprise Saviynt Architecture & Solution Design
- Define and own the end-to-end Saviynt Enterprise Identity Cloud (EIC) architecture.
- Develop enterprise-level IGA architecture, solution blueprints, technical designs, and implementation roadmaps.
- Design scalable, secure, and highly available Saviynt solutions aligned with enterprise security architecture.
- Establish architecture standards, design principles, governance frameworks, and technical best practices.
- Lead Saviynt implementation, platform modernization, migration, and integration initiatives.
- Evaluate new Saviynt capabilities and recommend enhancements to the existing IAM ecosystem.
2. Identity Governance & Administration (IGA)
- Architect enterprise identity lifecycle management covering Joiner, Mover, and Leaver (JML) processes.
- Design and implement Role-Based Access Control (RBAC) and Attribute-Based Access Control (ABAC).
- Define access request, approval, provisioning, and de-provisioning architectures.
- Architect access certification, periodic access reviews, and entitlement governance.
- Design Segregation of Duties (SoD) policies, controls, and risk management frameworks.
- Establish identity governance standards for employees, contractors, third parties, and service accounts.
3. Saviynt Platform Architecture & Engineering
- Provide technical leadership for Saviynt EIC configuration and customization.
- Design complex workflows, provisioning rules, analytics, controls, and approval mechanisms.
- Architect application onboarding and connector frameworks.
- Define integration patterns for REST APIs, SOAP services, databases, directories, and enterprise applications.
- Design identity aggregation, reconciliation, provisioning, and access governance processes.
- Lead technical troubleshooting and resolve complex platform architecture challenges.
- Review technical deliverables and ensure adherence to Saviynt architecture standards.
4. Enterprise Application & Technology Integrations
- Architect Saviynt integrations with enterprise applications and infrastructure platforms.
- Design integrations with Active Directory, LDAP, Microsoft Entra ID (Azure AD), and cloud platforms.
- Lead integrations involving SAP, Oracle, ServiceNow, databases, and custom-built applications.
- Define API-based integration architecture using REST APIs, JSON, XML, and web services.
- Ensure secure authentication, authorization, and data exchange across integrated systems.
- Establish reusable integration patterns and standards for enterprise application onboarding.
5. Cybersecurity, Risk & Compliance
- Ensure alignment with enterprise cybersecurity architecture and IAM policies.
- Define access governance controls, entitlement management, and SoD enforcement.
- Support internal and external audit requirements and regulatory compliance.
- Establish controls to mitigate excessive access, orphan accounts, and privileged access risks.
- Collaborate with Cybersecurity, Risk, Compliance, Infrastructure, and Application teams.
- Ensure compliance with relevant financial services security standards and regulatory requirements.
6. Architecture Governance & Stakeholder Management
- Act as the primary technical architecture SME for Saviynt and enterprise IGA initiatives.
- Work closely with enterprise architects, cybersecurity leaders, business stakeholders, and delivery teams.
- Lead architecture reviews, technical design discussions, and solution walkthroughs.
- Provide technical direction and mentorship to Saviynt engineers and developers.
- Review solution designs, integration specifications, and implementation deliverables.
- Drive architectural decisions, technical risk assessments, and continuous improvement initiatives.
## Target Candidate Profile – Must Have
Prioritize candidates who demonstrate:
1. Enterprise-level Saviynt EIC architecture and solution design.
2. End-to-end Saviynt implementation and deployment experience.
3. Complex application integration and connector architecture.
4. IAM / IGA transformation and enterprise identity governance.
5. RBAC, SoD, access certification, and entitlement management.
6. Experience supporting large banking or financial services environments.
## Experience & Qualifications
- 12–18 years of overall IT / Cybersecurity experience.
- Significant experience in IAM / IGA architecture and solution design.
- 5+ years of relevant Saviynt experience preferred, including architecture and implementation.
- Proven experience leading enterprise-level Saviynt implementations and integrations.
- Experience working with large-scale, complex enterprise environments.
- Strong communication, stakeholder management, and technical leadership capabilities.
