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Senior Principal, Enterprise Identity & Access Management Architect
Cigna Health And Life Insurance Company · 🇺🇸 Bloomfield, CT
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- Employer is on a government sponsor recordThe US Department of Labor certified 14 H-1B/E-3 labor condition applications for this employer between Oct 2025 and Jun 2026 (latest May 2026) — the step every H-1B hire needs first. USCIS also records 30 H-1B approvals in FY2023. Source: LCA disclosure data (US Department of Labor (OFLC)).
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The US Department of Labor certified 14 H-1B/E-3 labor condition applications for this employer between Oct 2025 and Jun 2026 (latest May 2026) — the step every H-1B hire needs first. USCIS also records 30 H-1B approvals in FY2023. Source: LCA disclosure data (US Department of Labor (OFLC)).
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About the role
The Senior Principal Enterprise Identity & Access Management (IAM) Architect leads the strategy, design, and governance of identity and access security across the organization. This role sets the long-term IAM vision and ensures identity solutions support business goals, cybersecurity standards, risk management, and regulatory requirements. This senior technical leader serves as a trusted advisor to executives and technology leaders. The role leads large IAM modernization efforts across cloud and on-premises environments, including workforce, customer, partner, privileged, and machine identities. The Senior Principal IAM Architect also helps guide technology investments, improve security, support compliance, and prepare the organization for emerging technologies, including AI-enabled security capabilities. Responsibilities: • Define and lead the enterprise IAM strategy, architecture, standards, and multi-year roadmap. • Create standards for identity governance, authentication, authorization, privileged access, and access controls. • Serve as a senior technical advisor for complex IAM and identity security programs. • Partner with cybersecurity, technology, risk, compliance, and business leaders to align IAM solutions with business needs. • Explain complex identity and security risks in clear business terms to support leadership decisions. • Guide technology investments and recommend IAM platforms and solutions based on business and security needs. • Establish and maintain IAM policies, security controls, and governance standards. • Support compliance with requirements such as HIPAA, SOX, GDPR, NIST, ISO, and other cybersecurity standards. • Lead identity risk assessments and strategies to reduce security risks. • Strengthen identity governance, role-based access, access reviews, segregation of duties, and privileged access management. • Lead the evaluation and adoption of new IAM technologies and platforms. • Advance cloud identity, Zero Trust, passwordless authentication, adaptive access, privileged access management, and AI-enabled security. • Define identity integration strategies across applications, APIs, cloud services, data platforms, and digital channels. • Provide technical direction for large IAM implementations, migrations, and transformation programs. • Guide architecture, engineering, security, and operations teams through complex identity challenges. • Ensure IAM solutions are secure, reliable, scalable, and able to support future growth. • Mentor architects, engineers, and technical leaders while encouraging knowledge sharing and continuous learning. • Provide IAM guidance during mergers, acquisitions, business changes, and technology modernization efforts. Qualifications: • Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Cybersecurity, Information Systems, or a related field. Master's degree preferred. • 12+ years of experience in cybersecurity, identity management, enterprise architecture, or a related area. • 8+ years of experience leading enterprise IAM architecture, strategy, or large transformation programs. • Experience leading complex technology initiatives and influencing senior and executive leaders. • Experience working in large, highly regulated organizations. • Deep knowledge of IAM, Identity Governance & Administration (IGA), Privileged Access Management (PAM), Customer IAM (CIAM), and Zero Trust. • Experience with technologies such as CyberArk, Okta, Ping Identity, SailPoint, and Microsoft Entra ID (Azure AD). • Strong knowledge of SAML, OAuth 2.0, OpenID Connect (OIDC), SCIM, LDAP, Kerberos, FIDO2, and modern authentication methods. • Experience designing identity solutions across AWS, Azure, GCP, hybrid-cloud, and multi-cloud environments. • Strong knowledge of API security, dir