Enterprise IAM Architect, VP

MUFG•Jersey City, NJ

19h•Hybrid

About The Position

The Enterprise Identity & Access Management (IAM) Architect is a senior architecture role responsible for defining the global IAM strategy, standards, and target architecture for a large, regulated enterprise. This role serves as the architectural authority and “North Star” owner for IAM, setting the direction that workforce, cloud, and platform teams execute against across regions. This position focuses on architecture, standards, and governance, not day‑to‑day operations or tool administration. The Enterprise IAM Architect ensures that identity and access controls are consistent, scalable, auditable, and aligned with regulatory and risk expectations—while still allowing regions and platforms to adopt capabilities based on maturity.

Requirements

10+ years of experience in identity, access management, security architecture, or related enterprise architecture roles.
Demonstrated experience defining enterprise‑level IAM strategies, standards, or reference architectures.
Strong understanding of authentication, authorization, identity lifecycle, privileged access, and governance concepts.
Experience working in regulated environments (e.g., financial services, healthcare, critical infrastructure).
Proven ability to influence senior technical and non‑technical stakeholders.

Nice To Haves

Experience operating in global or federated organizations with regional autonomy.
Familiarity with IAM maturity models and large‑scale transformation programs.
Experience aligning IAM architecture to risk, audit, and regulatory frameworks.
Background collaborating with cloud, platform, and security architecture teams.

Responsibilities

Define and maintain the global IAM target state and multi‑year maturity roadmap (crawl → walk → run).
Establish enterprise‑wide IAM architectural standards and reference patterns used by regional and platform teams.
Own and curate the Enterprise IAM Pattern Book, ensuring patterns are reusable, authoritative, and consistently applied.
Set global direction for authorization models, including RBAC and the evolution toward ABAC / PBAC where appropriate.
Act as the design authority for IAM, including decisions on global standards versus managed regional exceptions.
Ensure IAM architecture aligns to regulatory and control frameworks (e.g., NIST CRI, NIST CSF, internal risk standards).
Partner with risk, compliance, audit, and security leadership to ensure IAM controls are defensible and auditable by design.
Define global IAM success metrics and maturity indicators in partnership with IAM Governance and Standards teams.
Ensure metrics support visibility into adoption, control coverage, exception trends, and risk reduction.
Use metrics to guide architectural evolution and prioritize improvements across regions and platforms.
Work closely with Workforce Identity, Cloud IAM, Machine Identity, and Governance architects to ensure consistent execution of global standards.
Provide architectural guidance and review for major IAM initiatives and platform integrations.
Influence senior stakeholders across technology, security, and business teams without direct authority.