Senior Identity Application Architect, CIAM/IAM

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 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.