Principal Architect - Identity Access Management
Wells Fargo23 hours ago
Base Salary
$191k - $305k/yr
Responsibilities
- Advise senior leadership and enterprise stakeholders on complex IAM architecture, transformation strategy, and delivery.
- Define reference architectures, architecture frameworks, governance standards, and strategic technology roadmaps.
- Lead initiatives involving machine identities, secrets lifecycle management, privileged access, authentication, authorization, and Zero Trust security.
- Drive strategic investment planning, technology selection, cutover strategies, cost rationalization, and return-on-investment analysis.
- Ensure applications and platforms adhere to enterprise standards, policies, security requirements, and industry best practices.
- Evaluate and integrate AI-assisted development outputs while accounting for model limitations, security risks, operational considerations, privacy, compliance, and ethical standards.
- Influence internal and vendor roadmaps across a large, complex organization.
Requirements
- 7+ years of architecture experience, or equivalent demonstrated through work experience, training, military experience, or education.
- 7+ years of experience implementing enterprise-scale Identity Access Management solutions.
- Deep expertise in Identity Governance, Privileged Access Management, authentication, authorization, and security architecture.
- Experience designing distributed, cloud-native platforms using microservices and APIs.
- Strong knowledge of AWS, Kubernetes, Docker, infrastructure-as-code, and platform engineering practices.
- Experience with enterprise IAM and PAM platforms such as Saviynt, CyberArk, BeyondTrust, or Oracle Identity Manager.
- Proficiency in the Java and Spring ecosystem and modern application architecture patterns.
- Experience with regulated environments, audit requirements, and security compliance programs.
- Experience with AI security, secure generative AI platforms, Agentic AI, and model governance.
- Knowledge of Zero Trust Architecture and machine or workload identity security.
- Experience defining enterprise reference architectures and architecture governance standards.
- Ability to influence technology strategy across large, complex organizations; industry certifications in cloud, security, cybersecurity, or architecture are desirable.
Benefits
- Health benefits, 401(k) plan, paid time off, disability benefits, life insurance, critical illness insurance, accident insurance, parental leave, critical caregiving leave, discounts and savings, commuter benefits, tuition reimbursement, scholarships for dependent children, and adoption reimbursement.
- The role is based at 150 E 42nd Street, New York, NY, is not eligible for 100% remote work, and does not provide relocation assistance.
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About Wells Fargo
Wells Fargo & Company is a U.S.-based financial services firm providing consumer and commercial banking, mortgages, credit, and wealth/investment services to individuals, small businesses, and enterprises. It earns revenue from interest income and fees across retail banking, payments, lending, and capital markets. Founded in 1852 and headquartered in San Francisco, it is publicly traded on the NYSE (WFC) and operates nationally with offices in multiple countries.