Lead Application Architect

About the role

We are looking for a highly experienced Lead Application Architect to own and guide our Saviynt Identity Governance and Administration (IGA) platform. You will provide technical leadership, ensure platform stability, security, and scalability, and support post‑go‑live operations for the Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco.

Key responsibilities

• Serve as the lead engineer and technical architect for the SaaS IGA platform.
• Own platform design, configuration, validation, troubleshooting, production readiness, and post‑go‑live stabilization.
• Validate and manage Joiner‑Mover‑Leaver processes, including onboarding, transfers, terminations, rehires, and de‑provisioning.
• Ensure connector stability, account and entitlement aggregation, provisioning, de‑provisioning, and reconciliation accuracy.
• Configure and support access request workflows, approval routing, certifications, role models, policies, and provisioning rules.
• Partner with IAM, cybersecurity, HR, infrastructure, application owners, audit/compliance, and vendor teams.
• Lead root‑cause analysis and resolution of complex platform, workflow, connector, data, and provisioning issues.
• Analyze identity, account, and entitlement data to identify risks and improve accuracy.
• Support audit, compliance, least‑privilege, access review, privileged access, and segregation‑of‑duties requirements.
• Develop technical documentation, runbooks, operating procedures, support guides, and knowledge‑transfer materials.
• Train, mentor, and guide IAM engineers and support teams on Saviynt operations and best practices.
• Provide strategic recommendations to improve IGA maturity, automation, scalability, security, and operational efficiency.

Required profile

• Extensive hands‑on experience with Saviynt IGA or comparable SaaS IGA platforms.
• Strong background in Identity Governance and Administration, IAM, cybersecurity, access control, and enterprise security operations.
• Proven experience with Joiner‑Mover‑Leaver processes, access requests, certifications, provisioning, role management, policy configuration, and application onboarding.
• Deep understanding of connectors and integrations, including REST APIs, SCIM, JDBC, LDAP, SOAP, flat files, directories, SaaS applications, and enterprise systems.
• Experience integrating HR sources, Active Directory, Microsoft Entra ID / Azure AD, cloud applications, and hybrid enterprise environments.
• Strong data architecture and analytical skills, including identity data modeling.

Required skills

• Saviynt IGA (or comparable SaaS IGA platform)
• Identity Governance and Administration (IGA)
• IAM (Identity and Access Management)
• REST APIs, SCIM, JDBC, LDAP, SOAP
• Active Directory
• Microsoft Entra ID / Azure AD
• Cloud application integrations
• Hybrid enterprise environments
• Data modeling and identity data architecture