IAM Solution Architect (Contract | Madison, WI or Remote)
Madison, Wisconsin, USA
Temporary/Contract
$ 80.00 - $ 85.00 per hour
10-27-2026 16:46:36
Job ID:
hsmad102726_1793119595
About the Role
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Position Type: Contract
Duration: November 16, 2026 – May 14, 2027
Schedule: Approximately 32-40 hours/week initially
Work Arrangement: Primarily remote with availability during U.S. Central Time business hours. Occasional onsite meetings in the Madison, Wisconsin area may be required.
Position Summary
We are seeking an experienced, hands-on Senior IAM Solution Architect to provide architecture and technical leadership for a critical enterprise environment-separation initiative.
The role will focus on rapidly evaluating the existing IAM environment, identifying architectural and integration gaps, and developing practical, implementation-ready solutions. The architect will work extensively across Microsoft Active Directory, Microsoft Entra ID, hybrid identity, application access, authentication, authorization, and identity security controls.
This is an execution-focused technical architecture role, rather than a general IAM advisory, assessment-only, or project management position.
Key Responsibilities
IAM Architecture & Solution Design
- Assess current IAM architectures, integrations, configurations, dependencies, and future-state access patterns.
- Identify architectural gaps, security risks, and technical constraints.
- Design practical current-state, transitional, and target-state IAM solutions.
- Evaluate identity trust boundaries, authentication methods, directory dependencies, authorization models, and cross-environment access.
- Produce implementation-ready architecture and technical documentation.
Active Directory & Microsoft Entra ID
- Analyze and troubleshoot AD and Entra ID environments.
- Design and validate security groups, nested groups, entitlement mappings, and group-based application assignments.
- Evaluate hybrid identity synchronization and authentication flows.
- Address directory trusts and dependencies between separated environments.
- Troubleshoot authentication, authorization, identity integration, and group membership issues.
Application & Business Integration
- Partner with application owners, business stakeholders, cloud teams, infrastructure engineers, and cybersecurity personnel.
- Translate application and business access requirements into IAM solutions.
- Resolve identity issues involving users, applications, administrators, service accounts, and system integrations.
- Facilitate technical sessions to resolve migration blockers.
Identity Security
- Design solutions involving SSO, federation, MFA, Conditional Access, privileged access, and identity lifecycle management.
- Evaluate provisioning/deprovisioning and joiner/mover/leaver requirements.
- Address service accounts, machine identities, workload authentication, legacy authentication, and emergency access.
- Develop controls to prevent inappropriate cross-environment access.
Migration & Cutover
- Identify identity-related migration dependencies and sequencing requirements.
- Develop IAM migration guidance and integration specifications.
- Create cutover, access-validation, and rollback procedures.
- Support mock go-live exercises, troubleshooting, testing, and defect remediation.
- Support production cutover and post-cutover stabilization.
Required Qualifications
- Extensive professional experience with enterprise Identity and Access Management.
- Senior/principal-level IAM engineering or solution architecture experience.
- Strong hands-on expertise with Microsoft Active Directory and Microsoft Entra ID.
- Deep knowledge of:
- AD security groups and nested groups
- Identity synchronization
- Group-based application access
- Authentication and authorization
- Hybrid identity architectures
- Experience with SSO, federation, MFA, Conditional Access, privileged access, and identity lifecycle management.
- Experience supporting complex application or infrastructure migrations, environment separations, or enterprise transformation programs.
- Ability to troubleshoot IAM issues spanning users, groups, applications, infrastructure, service identities, and directories.
- Experience producing architecture diagrams, technical designs, migration procedures, testing requirements, and cutover documentation.
- Ability to operate independently and deliver under aggressive deadlines.
Preferred Qualifications
- Experience with enterprise environment segmentation or separation.
- Multiple AD domain or Entra tenant experience.
- Complex application entitlement mapping experience.
- Experience in healthcare, government contracting, or another regulated environment.
- Understanding of Zero Trust Architecture.
- Production migration rehearsal, cutover, and stabilization experience.
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