Non-Human Identity Solution Architect
Confirmed on the employer's own hiring board on Nov 13, 2026. First seen by Alion on Nov 3, 2026.
Team Overview:
The Non-Human Identity (NHI) Solution Architect is responsible for the design, architecture, and strategic direction of the firm's Non-Human Identity capabilities and services. This role serves as the technical authority for securing, governing, and managing non-human identities across the enterprise, including service accounts, application identities, APIs, machine identities, bots, certificates, secrets, cloud workloads, and other automated digital entities.
The Solution Architect will partner with Cybersecurity, Infrastructure, Cloud Engineering, Application Development, Enterprise Architecture, Risk, Compliance, and Product teams to create scalable and secure solutions that support business growth while reducing operational and security risk. This role combines deep technical expertise, strategic thinking, and leadership to establish enterprise standards, modernize identity security practices, and drive adoption of Non-Human Identity governance across the organization.
The successful candidate will possess strong architecture and design experience, a deep understanding of identity security principles, and a proven ability to influence technology strategy within large, complex environments.
What You'll Do:
Define and evolve the enterprise architecture, strategy, standards, and roadmap for Non-Human Identity capabilities, aligning solutions with business, technology, and cybersecurity objectives.
Design secure, scalable, and automated solutions for managing service accounts, machine identities, secrets, certificates, APIs, and cloud-native workloads.
Lead architecture reviews and provide technical guidance for enterprise projects involving authentication, identity lifecycle management, privileged access, workload security, and secrets management.
Establish governance frameworks, lifecycle controls, and operational standards that ensure non-human identities are securely created, monitored, maintained, and decommissioned.
Partner with Cloud Engineering, Infrastructure, DevOps, Application Development, Risk, and Security teams to integrate identity services into enterprise platforms and delivery pipelines.
Identify and mitigate risks associated with non-human identities while supporting audit, compliance, threat modeling, and security assessment activities.
Develop architecture artifacts, implementation guidance, metrics, and reporting that promote consistency, automation, resiliency, and operational excellence.
Serve as a trusted advisor and technical leader, influencing enterprise standards, mentoring teams, and presenting architectural recommendations to senior leadership.