Non-Human Identity Architect - PAM and AuthN

Edward Jones

10d•Hybrid

About The Position

The Non-Human Identity Architect serves as a technical leader responsible for defining, designing, implementing, and governing enterprise identity security solutions across Authentication (AuthN), Privileged Access Management (PAM), Non-Human Identity (NHI), and AI Security domains. This role partners with engineering, architecture, cybersecurity, infrastructure, cloud, application, and business teams to establish future-state identity security capabilities, reduce organizational risk, and support business transformation initiatives.

Requirements

10+ years of experience in Identity and Access Management, Cybersecurity, Infrastructure Engineering, or Enterprise Architecture.
Deep expertise in Authentication Technologies
MFA
Entra ID / Azure AD
Privileged Access Management
CyberArk
Hashicorp
Identity Governance
Secrets Management
Bitwarden
PingOne AIC
Powerbroker
Ping Federate
Ping Access
Experience designing and implementing enterprise-scale Identity Security Architectures, including Authentication, PAM, Non-Human Identity, Secrets Management, Credential Management, Workload Identity, PKI, Certificate Management, SPIFFE/SPIRE-based identity patterns, and AI/Agentic identity security architectures and partnering with enterprise-scale security architects.
Experience leading cross-functional initiatives and influencing technical direction across organizations.

Nice To Haves

Non-Human Identity (NHI) Governance
Machine Identity Security
Cloud Identity Architecture
AI Security and AI Governance
Workload Identity Federation
Zero Trust Architecture
DevSecOps Security
Kubernetes and Container Security
Certificate Lifecycle Management
Authorization Management
Policy Decision & Enforcement Frameworks
Policy Orchestration
Identity Threat Detection & Response (ITDR)
Identity Security Posture Management (ISPM)
Hybrid Identity Resilience
Ephemeral Credential Management

Responsibilities

Establish an enterprise NHI governance program.
Develop AI identity security standards and controls.
Reduce organizational risk associated with machine and privileged identities.
Modernize identity security capabilities through adoption of industry standards, passwordless authentication, workload identity federation, credential-less architectures, ephemeral access models, modern trust frameworks, and cloud-native identity patterns.
Deliver target-state identity security architecture for cloud, AI, and automation platforms.
Improve compliance, audit readiness, and operational maturity across AuthN and PAM programs.
Serve as the teams lead technical authority and partner with Enterprise Architecture for emerging identity security domains, including NHI, Machine Identity Security, and AI Security.
Develop and maintain enterprise NHI strategy for PAM and AuthN teams in partnership with IGA, Infrastructure, Cloud, Cybersecurity, Application, and Enterprise Architecture teams.
Establish governance and lifecycle management processes for Service Accounts, Application Accounts, API Identities, Service Principals, Managed Identities, Certificates, Machine Credentials, Robotic Process Automation (RPA) Identities, AI Agents, Agentic Identities, Delegated Workloads, Composite Workloads, Dynamic Client Registrations, and Autonomous Service Identities.
Lead initiatives to improve visibility, ownership, and control of non-human identities across the enterprise.
Define standards for credential rotation, ownership certification, and audit compliance.
Establish enterprise NHI inventory and risk-management frameworks.
Establish enterprise inventory, governance standards, ownership models, and risk management practices for non-human identities.