Job description

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A leading enterprise is seeking an experienced Identity & Security Enterprise Architect to play a pivotal role in a major Digital Identity transformation program. This is a unique opportunity for a senior architect who combines enterprise architecture expertise with deep technical knowledge across identity, access management, governance, and security architecture. You will provide strategic architectural leadership while acting as a trusted advisor to business stakeholders, technical teams, vendors, and specialist consultants.

Your new role

• Represent the Enterprise Architecture function across identity and security domains.
• Assess and validate identity, security, and access management architectures from both technical and enterprise perspectives.
• Provide independent challenge and guidance to specialist consultants and vendors.
• Ensure alignment between identity, IGA, access management, PAM, security architecture, and broader enterprise strategies.
• Translate operational and engineering knowledge into actionable architecture outcomes.
• Participate in architecture governance, design authority reviews, and strategic planning processes.
• Develop and maintain architecture artefacts, standards, and decision records.
• Support the ongoing evolution of architecture through both discovery and execution phases.

What you'll need to succeed

• Extensive enterprise architecture experience across complex environments.
• Strong understanding of architecture governance, standards, roadmaps, and target-state planning.
• Proven ability to influence executive stakeholders, technical teams, vendors, and consultants.
• Experience working across multiple technology domains including security, integration, data, and identity.

• Microsoft Entra ID, Identity Providers (IdP), Single Sign-On (SSO), federation, and Conditional Access.
• Identity Governance & Administration (IGA) platforms such as SailPoint, Saviynt, or Entra ID Governance.
• Access Management design, authentication patterns, and access models.
• Privileged Access Management (PAM), including CyberArk, Delinea, or similar technologies.
• Identity lifecycle management, provisioning, role and entitlement design.
• Security architecture aligned to Essential Eight and Australian regulatory requirements.
• Identity and security integrations across modern cloud and enterprise environments.

What you need to do now

If you're interested in this role, click 'apply now' to forward an up-to-date copy of your CV, or contact Ravindu Tharuka on (08) 7221 4181 or for further information. At Hays, we value diversity and are passionate about placing people in a role where they can flourish and succeed. We actively encourage people from diverse backgrounds to apply. If this job isn't quite right for you but you are looking for a new position, please contact us for a confidential discussion on your career.