Onsite IAM Lead Architect / Product Manager (10+ years) || Location: Union Beach, NJ (Hybrid role)

Role: Onsite IAM Lead Architect / Product Manager (10+ years)
Location: Union Beach, NJ (Hybrid role)
Contract

Role Overview

The IAM Product Manager / Lead Architect will own end-to-end Identity and Access Management support and delivery for the customer environment, with primary focus on Microsoft Entra ID. The role is a blend of managerial, product ownership, architecture, engineering, and operational support responsibilities.

The selected resource must be capable of independently managing IAM initiatives and operations across Microsoft Entra ID, SailPoint, and Delinea without requiring day-to-day guidance from the customer. The position requires strong technical depth, stakeholder communication, vendor coordination, and delivery governance.

Key Responsibilities
Product Strategy, Governance and Stakeholder Management
· Develop and execute a comprehensive IAM product strategy and vision that consistently delivers value to customers and improves user satisfaction.
· Assist senior management with planning and scoping of IT and security initiatives related to Identity and Access Management.
· Establish, monitor, and report key success metrics including cost, feature functionality, risk posture, reliability, adoption, and operational performance.
· Ensure accurate capacity reporting to support demand projections, optimize resource utilization, and enable timely delivery of IAM initiatives.
· Provide timely progress reporting to stakeholders, including achievements, delivery risks, dependencies, and mitigation strategies.

Microsoft Entra ID Engineering and Operations
· Design, implement, and manage Microsoft Entra ID capabilities including SSO, MFA, Conditional Access, Identity Protection, B2B, B2C, custom domains, and application integrations.
· Develop, implement, and manage integrations with Entra Single Sign-On, SCIM provisioning, Conditional Access rules, authentication policies, and sign-in policies.
· Develop password, sign-on, and MFA policies, rules, and procedures for users and applications based on business and security requirements.

· Create authentication and multifactor policies based on network zones, routing rules, risk posture, and business use cases.
· Understand and provide solutions for Active Directory and legacy authentication protections including LDAP, Kerberos, NTLM, and hybrid identity requirements.

Application Onboarding and Technical Solutioning
· Conduct and attend technical discussion sessions with application vendors, development teams, and application owners to identify suitable IAM security solutions.
· Work with standard security protocols including OAuth, OpenID Connect, SAML, LDAP, and SCIM for application onboarding and integrations.

· Contribute to requirement gathering, solution design, design documentation, and implementation planning for Identity, Access, and PAM solutions.

· Create and maintain design documents, SOPs, runbooks, knowledge articles, operational handover documents, and support procedures.