Lead Application Architect

Company

Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco

We are seeking a highly experienced Saviynt Identity Governance and Administration (IGA) Lead Engineer / Architect to provide technical leadership, platform ownership, and post-go-live support for our Saviynt IGA environment.

This role will serve as the primary technical lead responsible for ensuring the platform is stable, secure, scalable, well documented, and ready for enterprise production operations.

The ideal candidate is a seasoned IAM, cybersecurity, data, and systems engineering professional with handson experience in Saviynt or comparable SaaS IGA platforms.

This person will lead technical design, train and mentor the internal team, support go-live readiness, and guide the long-term IGA strategy after implementation.

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 Joiner-Mover-Leaver processes, including onboarding, transfers, terminations, rehires, and deprovisioning.


* Ensure connector stability, account aggregation, entitlement aggregation, provisioning, deprovisioning, and reconciliation accuracy.


* Configure and support access request workflows, approval routing, access 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 data, account data, entitlement data, access models, and provisioning outcomes 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, troubleshooting, and best practices.


* Provide strategic recommendations to improve IGA maturity, automation, scalability, security, and operational efficiency.

Qualifications



* 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.


* Experience with Joiner-Mover-Leaver processes, access requests, certifications, provisioning, role management, policy configuration, and application onboarding.


* Strong understanding of connectors and integrations, including REST APIs, SCIM, JDBC, LDAP, SOAP, flat files, directories, SaaS applications, and enterprise systems.


* Experience with HR source integrations, Active Directory, Microsoft Entra ID / Azure AD, cloud applica...