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About Us  At SDG, we're more than just a global leader in cybersecurity, identity, and risk management—we're a team of forward -thinkers, innovators, and problem -solvers driven by purpose and passion. Headquartered in Norwalk, Connecticut, we bring together exceptional talent and foster a culture where ideas flourish and careers thrive. Recognized as a Great Place to Work, we're proud of our collaborative, inclusive environment that inspires excellence and growth at every level. Every role at SDG contributes to driving innovation and delivering meaningful impact for our clients. We're deeply committed to our people, offering competitive compensation, robust career development, and comprehensive benefits—because when our team succeeds, we all rise together. As a trusted provider of Advisory, Transformation, and Managed Services, SDG empowers organizations to build cyber resilience by integrating AI across identity, threat, and risk management. Our solutions protect digital assets and drive measurable business outcomes. Join us—and be part of something greater ;\/a> What impact will you make? As a Senior Technical Architect, you will significantly impact an organization's security posture, operational efficiency, compliance adherence, and user experience. Enhance Security and Risk Mitigation Stronger Defense Against Breaches: You will significantly reduce the risk of unauthorized access and internal threats by designing and implementing robust access control mechanisms like Authentication & Authorization, Multi -Factor Authentication, Single Sign -On, and Role -Based Access Control. You will ensure that access is granted based on the principle of least privilege, limiting potential exposure to sensitive resources. Threat Prevention: You will create an architecture resilient to evolving cyber threats, including phishing, credential stuffing, and privilege escalation attacks, by leveraging the latest security protocols (e.g., SAML, OAuth, OpenID Connect) and identity federation strategies, Faster Threat Response: You will enable faster detection of suspicious access patterns using built -in logging, monitoring, and auditing capabilities, making it easier to respond to potential security incidents in real time. Improve Operational Efficiency and Scalability Optimized Access Provisioning: You will reduce manual workload, mitigate errors, and ensure that users are granted the right access at the right time by automating and streamlining user provisioning, de -provisioning, and role assignments, increasing operational efficiency and improving the user experience. Scalable Solutions: Your architecture will enable the organization to scale its AM systems as the business grows, supporting new applications, services, and user bases (including contractors, third parties, and external customers) without compromising security or performance. Simplified Access: You will eliminate the need for users to remember multiple passwords by integrating Single Sign -On, improving user productivity while maintaining strong authentication controls. Business Continuity and Resilience High Availability and Disaster Recovery: You will design highly available AM systems that can recover quickly in case of a failure or outage, ensuring business continuity, reducing downtime, and preventing disruption to critical business operations. Cross -Platform Access: You will design AM systems that span on -premises and cloud environments, making it easier for users to securely access resources across multiple platforms, whether on corporate servers, cloud applications, or mobile devices. User Experience and Productivity Seamless Authentication: You will improve the user experience by implementing user -friendly, secure authentication mechanisms like adaptive MFA, risk -based authentication, and SSO, ensuring users spend less time dealing with complex password management or multi -step logins, thus enhancing overall productivity. Reducing Friction: You will enable users to access the tools and data they need without unnecessary hurdles while ensuring that security is never compromised, fostering a balance between a smooth user experience and stringent access controls. Strategic Alignment with Business Goals Alignment with Business Needs: You will collaborate closely with key stakeholders, including business leaders, compliance officers, and IT teams, to align AM solutions with the organization's goals and strategic direction. Whether expanding to new regions, launching new products, or supporting remote work, your solutions will securely enable these initiatives. Innovation and Future proofing: You will stay ahead of emerging IAM trends and technologies, ensuring your architecture can adapt to new security challenges, like biometric authentication, decentralized identity, and zero -trust security models. This future -proofs the organization's access management capabilities and keeps it competitive in a rapidly evolving landscape. Collaboration and Cross -Functional Impact Cross -Department Collaboration: You will facilitate strong collaboration across various teams, such as security, IT operations, application development, and compliance. This ensures that access management solutions integrate smoothly with the broader IT infrastructure and business processes, resulting in fewer silos and better coordination. Cultural Influence on Security: By championing security and AM best practices, you will help instill a culture of security -first thinking. Your leadership will inspire the adoption of security -conscious behaviors, reducing human error and improving overall risk posture. Cost Efficiency and ROI Reducing Operational Costs: You will reduce the cost of managing user access through automation and self -service capabilities (e.g., self -service password resets, automated access reviews), cutting down on helpdesk tickets and manual administrative tasks. Optimizing Licensing Costs: You will help optimize license usage for critical software and services by ensuring that the right users have the right access at the right time, reducing costs associated with over -provisioning or unused accounts. Leadership and Mentorship Shaping IAM Strategy: Your role as a thought leader will shape the organization's overall IAM strategy, influencing key decisions on security architecture, technology adoption, and risk management. Mentoring and Developing Teams: You will mentor and guide junior team members, fostering the development of the next generation of AM professionals and building a strong, capable team to execute your vision. Your work will directly impact multiple layers of the organization. You will influence security, compliance, user experience, and operational efficiency while strategically aligning AM with broader business objectives. Your work will ensure that the organization can grow and adapt securely, providing the right people with the right access at the right time while mitigating risks and enabling innovation. You will play a crucial role in safeguarding the organization's digital assets and ensuring the long -term security of its IT ecosystem. Responsibilities will you take on? As an Access Management Senior Technical Architect, you will be responsible for designing, building, and overseeing the implementation of AM solutions within an organization. You will create scalable, secure, and efficient systems for managing user identities, authentication, and authorization across various applications and resources. You will require deep technical expertise, a strategic mindset, and an understanding of security best practices.  Your responsibilities will include: Solution Design and Architecture Design Access Management Systems: Architect scalable and secure access management solutions that support business needs, including designing SSO, MFA, Identity Federation, RBAC, and PAM. Integration Planning: Design the integration of AM with the existing IT infrastructure, applications (both on -prem and cloud), and third -party services. Security Frameworks: Establish security protocols and frameworks for authentication, authorization, and identity management. Define security controls, such as encryption, tokenization, and identity federation standards (SAML, OAuth, OpenID Connect). Cloud and Hybrid Solutions: Architect AM solutions for both - on -premises and cloud environments, ensuring seamless management of user identities across hybrid environments (e.g., AWS, Azure, or Google Cloud). Requirements Gathering and Analysis Collaborate with business stakeholders (e.g., IT, security, compliance teams, and end -users) to understand AM requirements and ensure the architecture meets functional and non -functional needs. Access Control Models Develop and define role -based, attribute -based, and policy -based access models, aligning user roles, permissions, and responsibilities with business objectives. System Integration Identity Providers & Directories: Design integrations with Identity Providers such as PingOne Advanced Identity Cloud, Microsoft EntraID, ForgeRock (PingIDM, PingAM, PingDS), LDAP, or other directory services, integrating with both internal and external identity sources. SSO and MFA: Architect and implement solutions for SSO and MFA across systems and applications. Federation & External Identities: Implement identity federation and manage integrations with external identity providers for third -party authentication. API Security: Architect access management solutions that include secure API access and token management using OAuth, OpenID Connect, and similar technologies. Risk and Security Management Security Risk Assessment: Conduct risk assessments to identify potential vulnerabilities within AM systems and design systems to mitigate risks, including enforcing least -privilege access and strong authentication mechanisms. Incident Management: Define processes for responding to access -related security incidents, such as unauthorized access attempts, privilege escalation, and identity theft. Audit & Monitoring: Design and implement audit and monitoring systems to track access requests, user permission changes, and suspicious activities. Work with security operations to ensure logs and reports are generated for compliance and troubleshooting. Technology Evaluation and Vendor Management Tool Selection and Evaluation: Evaluate, select, and recommend the best AM tools and platforms (e.g., IAM solutions, MFA solutions, SSO platforms) to align with organizational needs and security requirements. Vendor Management: Collaborate with third -party vendors to integrate commercial tools and services, ensuring they meet the organization's security and compliance needs. Proof of Concept (PoC): Lead or participate in PoCs for new tools or technologies to evaluate their effectiveness in meeting the organization's requirements. Collaboration and Cross -functional Engagement Stakeholder Communication: Collaborate with senior leaders, security architects, business stakeholders, and IT teams to communicate architecture designs, timelines, and strategies for implementing AM solutions. Cross -functional collaboration: Work closely with application development, network, security, and infrastructure teams to ensure the AM architecture integrates seamlessly with other systems. End -User Experience: Ensure AM solutions are user -friendly, promoting a seamless user experience while maintaining strong security standards. Performance and Optimization System Performance: Optimize AM systems, ensuring they scale efficiently as the organization grows and the number of applications and users increases. High Availability & Disaster Recovery: Design AM solutions with high availability, failover, and disaster recovery mechanisms to ensure minimal downtime and resilience. Documentation and Knowledge Sharing Architecture Documentation: Create comprehensive documentation for the AM, design decisions, system configurations, and implementation guides. Best Practices and Standards: Establish and promote best practices, coding standards, and operational guidelines related to AM, ensuring consistency across the organization. Training and Knowledge Transfer: Provide training and knowledge transfer to teams responsible for maintaining and operating the AM systems post -implementation. Continuous Improvement Stay Current: Keep up with IAM industry trends, security threats, and new technologies. Evaluate emerging solutions such as decentralized identity management, biometrics, and AI -driven access controls. Innovation and Enhancement: Continuously improve the AM architecture by integrating new capabilities, enhancing security features, and reducing friction for end users. Let's turn the spotlight onto you You will need wide -ranging experience to succeed as a Senior Technical Architect (IAM) at SDG. Authentication standards and technologies: Proficiency with IAM solutions like SAML2.0, OAuth2.0, OpenID Connect, MFA, adaptive authentication, risk -based authentication, password -less authentication, certificate -based authentication, Kerberos authentication, etc., as well as cloud -based IAM solutions likePingOne Advanced Identity Cloud, Microsoft EntraID, PingOne, Okta, etc. Access management solutions: Strong understanding of IAM practices and AM solutions & extensive experience with PingOne Advanced Identity Cloud, ForgeRock (PingIDM, PingAM, PingDS), Microsoft EntraID, PingFederate, PingOne, Okta, etc. Cloud environments: Experience designing and implementing IAM solutions in cloud environments (e.g., AWS, Azure, GCP). Security knowledge: Deep understanding of security principles, encryption, threat modeling, and vulnerability management. Leadership skills: Strong leadership skills, including team management, conflict resolution, and mentoring. Communication skills: Strong ability to explain complex technical solutions effectively to technical and non -technical stakeholders. Critical thinking skills: Strong analytical and troubleshooting skills for resolving issues. Education and experience: A technology degree and 12 to 15 years of experience in IAM. At least 3 years in a technical architecture or leadership role. A master's degree or specialized certification in IAM or security is a plus. Wow the customer You will be pivotal in delivering exceptional services that meet and anticipate our customers' needs. Design with the customer's needs in mind Customer -centric architecture: Develop solutions tailored to the customer's specific needs. Focus on solving their problems most efficiently and effectively, aligning the architecture with their business goals and objectives. Scalability & flexibility: Ensure that the system can scale as the customer's business grows, providing flexibility to adapt to future needs and changes in the market. Usability Focus: Make sure the design is technically sound and user -friendly, optimizing for ease of use and minimizing complexity for end users. Deliver seamless, high -performing solutions Optimize Performance: Prioritize high performance, ensuring the system operates quickly, efficiently, and without downtime, delivering exceptional user experiences. Reliability & Resilience: Build highly available and fault -tolerant solutions. Ensure systems are robust and able to recover from failure seamlessly, instilling customer confidence in your solutions. Proactively Identify and Solve Problems Anticipate Customer Needs: Anticipate challenges and potential roadblocks early in the project, addressing them before they become issues for the customer. Proactive Communication: Regularly update the customer on the project's progress, potential risks, and how they are mitigated. Transparency builds trust. Innovate and Introduce Cutting -Edge Technology Leverage Emerging Technologies: Keep an eye on industry trends and introduce innovative technologies that can provide a competitive edge to your customers. Position yourself as a thought leader in your field. Future -proof solutions: Design systems with long -term success in mind. Use technologies that will evolve with the customer's future needs, ensuring your solution remains relevant and effective. Foster Collaboration Across Teams Cross -functional teamwork: Work closely with development teams, product managers, and business stakeholders to ensure all aspects of the solution are aligned with customer needs. Customer Involvement: Involve the customer in key milestones, sharing progress and seeking feedback regularly to ensure the solution aligns with their evolving expectations. Ensure Seamless Integration Seamless integration with existing systems: Design solutions that integrate smoothly with the customer's current systems, reducing disruption and the need for extensive changes to their existing infrastructure. Data Consistency & Integrity: Make sure that data flow between systems is accurate, consistent, and secure, ensuring the customer can trust the system's outputs. Exceed Expectations with Excellent Support Post -Implementation Support: Provide exceptional ongoing support to address any issues after deployment. Ensure customers know they can call you for guidance or assistance post -launch. Iterative Improvements: Continuously improve the system after deployment by responding to customer feedback and iterating based on their evolving needs.Benefits Benefits of working for SDG: • Amazing People • Amazing Customers • Career growth • Supports lifelong learning  • Opportunity to work on new technologies • Flexible work environment • Work -Life Balance • Employee Centric • Supportive Leadership Team • Start -up environment in an established company of over 30 years