Vanguard

Senior Cloud Security Architect, IAM Cloud

Vanguard

full-time

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Location Type: Hybrid

Location: Malvern • North Carolina • Pennsylvania • United States

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Job Level

Senior

Tech Stack

AWSAzureCloudGoogle Cloud Platform

About the role

  • Define and evolve cloud IAM architecture across authentication, authorization, federation, and identity governance.
  • Own and drive the enterprise cloud IAM strategy, including modern authentication, non‑human identities, and emerging AI use cases.
  • Lead cloud security architecture reviews and influence engineering roadmaps toward secure, scalable outcomes.
  • Design and implement cloud-native IAM patterns, including least privilege, policy‑as‑code, workload identity, conditional access, and service‑to‑service authentication.
  • Establish and enforce IAM guardrails for Infrastructure as Code (IaC) using automated policy controls.
  • Streamline secure access workflows through standardized roles, self‑service access, and efficient onboarding.
  • Monitor and reduce identity-related risk (excessive permissions, misconfigurations, toxic access paths) and translate insights into architectural improvements.
  • Define and align policy-driven privileged access controls across cloud platforms, applications, and CI/CD pipelines.
  • Partner with cloud engineering, DevSecOps, security, and risk/compliance teams to ensure alignment with enterprise security and regulatory standards.

Requirements

  • 8+ years of experience in IAM, Cloud Security, Security Architecture, or related enterprise IT roles
  • 3+ years as a technology/security architect
  • Bachelor’s degree or equivalent combination of education and experience
  • Experience leading technical initiatives (people or matrix leadership)
  • Multi‑cloud IAM expertise (AWS, Azure, GCP, OCI)
  • Background in regulated environments (financial services preferred) with exposure to SOX, SOC, GDPR, DORA
  • Certifications preferred: CISSP (preferred), GSEC, CISM, CCSP, and/or cloud provider certifications
Benefits
  • comprehensive health and wellness care
  • work-life balance
  • investment in your future
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Hard Skills & Tools
cloud IAM architectureauthenticationauthorizationidentity governancecloud security architecturecloud-native IAM patternsInfrastructure as Code (IaC)policy-driven privileged access controlsCI/CD pipelinesemerging AI use cases
Soft Skills
leadershiptechnical initiative leadershipcollaborationinfluencecommunication
Certifications
CISSPGSECCISMCCSPcloud provider certifications