Principal IAM-Zero Trust Solutions Architect

Serve as a principal technical leader for the Leidos Mission Operations Division CTO Team supporting the Defense Information Systems Agency and other Department of Defense and federal customers.

The Principal IAM / Zero Trust Solutions Architect will lead the development and integration of complex enterprise technology and cybersecurity solutions spanning identity, cloud, infrastructure, networking, automation, security, and mission systems.

Primary Responsibilities:

• Lead the architecture, design, and integration of complex enterprise infrastructure and cybersecurity solutions across cloud, on-premises, classified, and mission environments.
• Develop integrated IAM and Zero Trust solution architectures aligned with customer mission requirements and applicable Department of Defense, NIST, and federal cybersecurity guidance.
• Assess existing technology environments, identify architectural and operational gaps, and develop modernization strategies and implementation roadmaps.
• Design and integrate identity, cloud, infrastructure, networking, security, automation, monitoring, and related enterprise capabilities.
• Apply IAM principles including authentication, authorization, federation, identity lifecycle management, privileged access, PKI, and access policy as part of broader enterprise solutions.
• Incorporate Zero Trust principles such as least privilege, continuous verification, segmentation, policy enforcement, and risk-based access into solution architectures.
• Evaluate commercial and government technologies, conduct technical trade studies and Analyses of Alternatives, and develop solution recommendations.
• Define architectural interfaces, integration dependencies, implementation approaches, and transition strategies across multiple technical domains.
• Develop architecture diagrams, technical approaches, implementation plans, test strategies, modernization roadmaps, and customer briefings.
• Provide technical leadership and direction to multidisciplinary engineering and integration teams.
• Engage directly with government customers and mission stakeholders to understand technical challenges, shape requirements, and develop practical solutions.
• Research emerging enterprise, cybersecurity, cloud, IAM, and Zero Trust technologies and assess their applicability to customer missions.
• Support technical demonstrations, solution development, capture, proposals, and on-contract growth activities.

Basic Qualifications:

• Significant experience designing, integrating, and modernizing complex enterprise infrastructure, cybersecurity, or mission technology environments.
• Ability to translate customer mission and technical requirements into architectures, implementation approaches, and modernization roadmaps.
• Experience evaluating technologies, conducting technical trade studies or Analyses of Alternatives, and developing solution recommendations.
• Experience leading complex technical integrations across multiple infrastructure and cybersecurity domains.
• Strong working knowledge of enterprise IAM/ICAM concepts including authentication, authorization, federation, identity lifecycle management, privileged access, PKI, directory services, and access policy.
• Experience incorporating IAM capabilities into enterprise cloud, infrastructure, or cybersecurity solutions.
• Understanding of Zero Trust principles and the interaction among identity, devices, applications, networks, workloads, data, and security policy.
• Familiarity with Department of Defense, NIST, RMF, and related federal cybersecurity frameworks and requirements.
• Experience with cloud and hybrid enterprise environments such as AWS, Azure, or comparable platforms.
• Broad understanding of enterprise infrastructure technologies including networking, virtualization, automation, configuration management, monitoring, and cybersecurity technologies.
• Familiarity with modern automation, DevSecOps, containers, and infrastructure-as-code concepts.
• Ability to understand and define integration requirements across infrastructure, cybersecurity, IAM, cloud, and operations technologies.
• Experience providing technical leadership to multidisciplinary engineering teams.
• Ability to communicate complex technical concepts to government customers, technical teams, and senior stakeholders.
• Strong written, verbal, technical briefing, and customer-facing communication skills.
• Experience developing technical architectures, solution concepts, recommendations, or implementation plans.

Preferred Qualifications:

• Experience supporting Department of Defense, Intelligence Community, or other federal mission environments.
• TS/SCI eligibility or active TS/SCI clearance.
• Experience architecting solutions across classified, multi-domain, hybrid-cloud, or distributed enterprise environments.
• Experience with enterprise IAM platforms such as Microsoft Entra ID, Active Directory, Okta, Ping Identity, SailPoint, CyberArk, RadiantLogic, or comparable technologies.
• Experience with Zero Trust modernization initiatives or applying Zero Trust principles within enterprise architectures.
• Experience with automation, infrastructure-as-code, DevSecOps, or configuration-management technologies.
• Experience with enterprise network, monitoring, observability, or cybersecurity platforms.
• Experience supporting federal security accreditation and authorization processes.
• Experience conducting vendor technology evaluations or Analyses of Alternatives.
• Experience supporting capture, proposals, technical solution development, or customer demonstrations.

Education, Experience, Clearance & Certification:

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, Systems Engineering, Cybersecurity, or a related field and approximately 15+ years of relevant professional experience.
• Additional relevant experience may be considered in lieu of a technical degree.
• Active Department of Defense Secret clearance or higher.
• Department of Defense 8140-aligned cybersecurity certification appropriate to the role, such as Security+ CE or higher.

Pay Range: $154,050.00 - $278,475.00