Identity & Trust Architect

Elevance Health•Atlanta, TX

15h•Hybrid

About The Position

The Identity & Trust Architect will work with business and technology stakeholders to build a holistic view of the organization's strategy, processes, information, and technical assets to ensure business and IT alignment. This role is responsible for defining IAM target-state architecture, reference architectures, and roadmaps, and selecting and designing integrations for IAM platforms (e.g., Entra ID/Azure AD, Okta). The architect will integrate authoritative sources with directories and downstream applications, design IAM for AWS/Azure/GCP (roles, policies, identities, workload identity, least privilege), and partner with platform/DevOps teams on secrets management, key management, and CI/CD access patterns. Responsibilities also include defining logging, monitoring, and audit controls for IAM events, leading threat modeling and remediation for identity-related risks, recommending new technologies based on business value and ROI, and establishing the overall systems architecture vision. The role contributes to the holistic vision of Enterprise Architecture, maintains components of architecture strategy and vision, and ensures enterprise-level blueprints are refreshed as needs emerge. The architect provides continuous consulting services and direction on projects and architectures, champions enterprise-level technology and architectural standards, guidelines, principles, frameworks, and reference models, and defines systems, technical, and application architectures for new strategic initiatives.

Requirements

Requires a BA/BS degree in Information Technology, Computer Science or related field of study and a minimum of 8 years experience in architecture/design in relevant technology disciplines; or any combination of education and experience, which would provide an equivalent background.

Nice To Haves

Experience in health care industry strongly preferred
Cross-functional experience (e.g., strategy, change management, business process management strongly preferred)

Responsibilities

Define IAM target-state architecture, reference architectures, and roadmaps
Select and design integrations for IAM platforms (e.g., Entra ID/Azure AD, Okta)
Integrate authoritative sources with directories and downstream apps
Design IAM for AWS/Azure/GCP (roles, policies, identities, workload identity, least privilege)
Partner with platform/DevOps teams on secrets management, key management, and CI/CD access patterns
Define logging, monitoring, and audit controls for IAM events (integration with SIEM)
Lead threat modeling and remediation for identity-related risks
Recommends new technologies for domains based upon business value drivers and return on investment; drives new technologies towards implementation and exploitation
Establishes overall systems architecture vision and ensures specific components are appropriately designed and leveraged; contributes to the holistic vision of Enterprise Architecture
Takes responsibility for health of overall architecture for market segment
Maintains components of architecture strategy and vision
Maintains enterprise level blueprints
Coordinates all enterprise-level conceptual architecture components (e.g., data architecture, application architecture, technical architecture)
Monitors usage of architectural components and assumes responsibility for reuse
Drives system migration based upon roadmaps defined in enterprise and domain blueprints
Leads architecture strategy and vision for enterprise
Ensures blueprints are refreshed as needs emerge or in accordance to plan of record changes
Provides continuous consulting services and direction in projects and architectures
Champions and responsible for enterprise level technology and architectural standards, guidelines, principles, frameworks, and reference models
Defines systems, technical, and application architectures for new strategic initiatives; develops and maintains an architectural blueprint and evolutionary roadmap that defines and communicates the strategic direction for these architectures in support of business and technical strategies; explains how the roadmap maintains and delivers cost effectiveness, business value, and competitiveness