Principal Identity & Cloud Authentication Architect
12-Month Contract | Large Enterprise Environment | Complex Cloud & Identity Landscape
Location: Melbourne, Brisbane, or Sydney (open to Eastern Seaboard locations)
Rate: Highly competitive daily rate
We are seeking a highly experienced Principal Identity Architect to lead identity governance uplift across a large, complex enterprise environment.
This is not a traditional AD-focused IAM role.
This opportunity is ideal for a senior architect who understands modern authentication patterns, cloud-native identity, machine-to-machine trust models, and privileged access governance - and can operate confidently between enterprise strategy and technical delivery.
The Opportunity
You will play a key role in shaping and uplifting identity governance patterns across:
* Privileged access governance (CyberArk)
You'll be working across multiple identity and engineering teams, helping stitch together architectural direction into pragmatic, deliverable outcomes.
This role requires someone who can confidently sit at a whiteboard, understand enterprise direction, challenge assumptions, and translate strategy into executable design.
Key Responsibilities
* Define and uplift identity governance patterns across modern cloud and database environments
* Design authentication models across corporate and cloud identity streams
* Architect machine-to-machine trust relationships across cloud workloads
* Provide governance oversight and architectural direction for CyberArk / PAM implementations
* Work across cross-cloud boundaries to ensure secure identity communication between assets
* Collaborate with database, cloud and identity teams to shape solutions within enterprise parameters
* Support POC validation and technical design refinement
* Influence and negotiate across technical stakeholders to drive alignment
Essential Experience Needed
* Strong IDAM governance experience within large, complex enterprises
* Experience/Knowledge with modern database authentication architectures
* Strong understanding of cloud identity patterns (including AWS IAM)
* Understanding of machine-to-machine authentication and trust relationships
* Ability to operate across strategy and architectural technical delivery
* Tech-agnostic mindset with strong modern authentication capability
The Successful Candidate will be
* A strategic thinker who understands end-to-end identity vision
* Technically credible and respected by engineering teams
* Strong enough to challenge and negotiate design outcomes
* Comfortable operating in delivery-focused project environments
This role requires someone who can bridge enterprise vision and technical implementation - not just document patterns, but actively shape and deliver them.
How to apply
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