Senior IAM Entra Architect

Your opportunity

At Schwab, you’re empowered to make an impact on your career. Here, innovative thought meets creative problem solving, helping us challenge the status quo and transform the finance industry together. We believe in the importance of in-office collaboration and fully intend for the selected candidate for this role to work on site in the specified location(s).

As a Senior IAM Entra Architect, you will help shape the security, resilience, and future of Schwab’s enterprise identity environment. Serving as a technical design authority, you will define target-state architectures, security guardrails, reference patterns, and modernization roadmaps across Microsoft Entra ID, Active Directory, and hybrid identity services.

You will guide complex architectural decisions involving authentication modernization, identity governance, application migration, privileged access, and Zero Trust principles. Your problem-solving and decision-making skills will help teams balance security, regulatory requirements, operational resilience, scalability, and user experience.

Working across Security Engineering, Cloud Platform Engineering, DevSecOps, Infrastructure, and application teams, you will turn complex identity challenges into actionable solutions. Your collaboration, communication, and adaptability will help accelerate secure modernization while strengthening identity controls across Schwab’s technology environment.

What you have

Required Qualifications

• 10+ years of experience in Identity and Access Management architecture or engineering.

• Deep experience designing enterprise identity solutions using Microsoft Entra ID, Active Directory, and hybrid identity technologies.

• Experience with Conditional Access, Identity Protection, multifactor authentication, passwordless authentication, identity governance, and privileged access.

• Experience designing secure authentication and single sign-on solutions using OAuth 2.0, OpenID Connect, SAML, or WS-Federation.

• Experience securing hybrid identity environments using Entra Connect, federation services, lifecycle automation, and cloud-based identity patterns.

• Experience developing Terraform infrastructure-as-code resources, reusable modules, and automated CI/CD guardrails for identity services.

• Ability to apply Access Control Management, Cybersecurity, Risk Management, and Decision Making skills to produce secure, scalable, auditable identity solutions.

• Demonstrated Problem Solving, Communication, and Cross-Functional Collaboration skills when guiding complex architecture and security decisions.

Preferred Qualifications

• Microsoft SC-300, SC-100, AZ-305, or equivalent certification.

• Experience with Privileged Access Workstations, Microsoft Identity Manager, SailPoint, CyberArk, or Okta.

• Experience supporting enterprise identity consolidation, domain migration, or legacy authentication modernization initiatives.

• Experience with threat modeling, penetration testing, security architecture, regulatory requirements, or identity-related audit controls.

• Experience creating scalable automation through scripting, APIs, low-code/no-code platforms, programming languages, or AI technologies.

• Adaptability and Continuous Learning demonstrated by evaluating emerging identity threats, platform capabilities, and technology changes.

• Strategic Thinking and Stakeholder Management skills used to establish roadmaps, influence technical direction, and convert complex identity concepts into actionable guidance.

• Experience mentoring engineers or establishing identity architecture standards and best practices.

In addition to the salary range, this role is eligible for bonus or incentive opportunities.

What’s in it for you

At Schwab, you’re empowered to shape your future. We champion your growth through meaningful work, continuous learning, and a culture of trust and collaboration—so you can build the skills to make a lasting impact. Our Hybrid Work and Flexibility (https://www.schwabjobs.com/hybrid-work) approach balances our ongoing commitment to workplace flexibility, serving our clients, and our strong belief in the value of being together in person on a regular basis.

We offer a competitive benefits package (https://www.schwabjobs.com/summary-of-benefits) that takes care of the whole you – both today and in the future:

• 401(k) with company match and Employee stock purchase plan

• Paid time for vacation, volunteering, and 28-day sabbatical after every 5 years of service for eligible positions

• Paid parental leave and family building benefits

• Tuition reimbursement

• Health, dental, and vision insurance

What’s in it for you:

At Schwab, we’re committed to empowering our employees’ personal and professional success. Our purpose-driven, supportive culture, and focus on your development means you’ll get the tools you need to make a positive difference in the finance industry. Our Hybrid Work and Flexibility approach balances our ongoing commitment to workplace flexibility, serving our clients, and our strong belief in the value of being together in person on a regular basis.

We offer a competitive benefits package that takes care of the whole you – both today and in the future:

401(k) with company match and Employee stock purchase plan

Paid time for vacation, volunteering, and 28-day sabbatical after every 5 years of service for eligible positions

Paid parental leave and family building benefits

Tuition reimbursement

Health, dental, and vision insurance

Schwab is an affirmative action employer, focused on employing and advancing in employment, qualified women, racial and ethnic minorities, protected veterans, and individuals with disabilities in the workplace. If you have a disability and require reasonable accommodations in the application process, contact Human Resources at [email protected] or call 800-275-1281.