Job ID: 14314

Job Title: IAM Security Architect Contract Length: 18 Months Location: Remote from within Canada Federal Government Clearance Level Required: Secret Vacancy Type:

• New Position

About Us

Maplesoft Group is currently seeking a Remote IAM Security Architect for our Federal Government client in Canada.

Position Summary

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Key Responsibilities

• Provide senior Identity and Access Management (IAM) guidance, advisory, and architecture services to support client objectives and cyber resilience initiatives
• Develop the strategic direction, target-state architecture, and roadmap for IAM capabilities across the organization
• Lead the advancement of Zero Trust identity principles across users, workloads, applications, devices, services, and AI-enabled solutions
• Create enterprise IAM architectures and governance models aligned with security, privacy, operational, and regulatory requirements
• Establish authentication, authorization, and access governance patterns leveraging Microsoft Entra ID, SailPoint, CyberArk, Azure Key Vault, and related technologies
• Establish standards and design patterns for identity governance, lifecycle management, access certification, entitlement management, and privileged access
• Develop the Client's approach to non-human identities, including service accounts, workload identities, APIs, secrets, certificates, and machine-to-machine access
• Lead the development of agentic identity management capabilities and governance models to support secure adoption of AI agents
• Implement authorization models, lifecycle controls, monitoring requirements, and governance processes for AI agent identities
• Provide architectural oversight and technical guidance for IAM initiatives, ensuring alignment with enterprise architecture, Zero Trust principles, and strategic objectives
• Review and provide guidance with solution designs, implementation approaches, and technical deliverables produced by project teams and service providers
• Identify IAM capability gaps, technology risks, and control deficiencies, and develop remediation roadmaps
• Collaborate with cybersecurity, architecture, infrastructure, cloud, application, and data teams to embed identity controls into technology solutions and business processes
• Establish security requirements and architecture guidance for cloud identity, federation, privileged access, secrets management, and emerging technologies
• Assist in the development of identity threat detection, monitoring, and response capabilities to strengthen cyber resilience and enable machine-speed operations
• Produce architecture deliverables, standards, roadmaps, governance artifacts, and executive-ready recommendations for leadership and governance forums
• Provide expert guidance and knowledge transfer to internal teams supporting IAM initiatives
• Participate in the planning, prioritization, and delivery of IAM capabilities within the Cyber Resilience Transformation Program and broader Bank IAM initiatives
• Perform other related duties and deliverables as required

Required Qualifications

• University Degree or College Diploma in computer science, information security, engineering, or a related field
• A minimum of five (5) years of recent demonstrated experience in information technology, identity and access management (IAM), or cyber security
• A minimum of three (3) years of recent demonstrated experience as an IAM architect, or identity security consultant in complex, regulated environments
• Demonstrated experience assessing current-state IAM capabilities and defining target-state IAM architectures and roadmaps
• Demonstrated experience designing and governing IAM controls, including identity governance, privileged access management, authentication, authorization, and Zero Trust identity capabilities
• Demonstrated experience identifying IAM, security, and compliance control gaps and recommending risk-based improvements
• Demonstrated experience developing IAM standards, reference architectures, design patterns, and governance frameworks

Preferred Qualifications

• Demonstrated Experience working in the financial sector or another highly regulated environment
• Demonstrated Experience with enterprise architecture methods or frameworks such as TOGAF, SABSA, or comparable approaches
• Relevant certifications would be considered an asset (e.g., CISSP, CISM, Microsoft, SailPoint, CyberArk, TOGAF, or SABSA)

Compensation

Salary Range: $90.00 – $110.00 per hour

Our recruitment process is led by human recruiters who review all applications and make the final hiring decisions. We use AI-assisted tools to help screen and organize applications. These tools do not replace human judgment, and all hiring decisions are made by people. Please note that data collected by the Company may be stored or processed on servers located outside of Canada.

Application Submission Details

Submission Deadline: Monday, July 27, 2026 12:00pm EST

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Maplesoft is an equal opportunity employer and welcomes applications from all qualified candidates. Accommodations are available upon request throughout the recruitment process.