Identity and Privileged Access Management Architect

What makes Cognizant a unique place to work? The combination of rapid growth and an international and innovative environment! This is creating many opportunities for people like YOU - people with an entrepreneurial spirit who want to make a difference in this world.

At Cognizant, together with your colleagues from all around the world, you will collaborate on creating solutions for the world's leading companies and help them become more flexible, more innovative, and successful. Moreover, this is your chance to be part of the success story.

Position Summary:
•Experienced Identity and Privileged Access Management Architect with deep expertise in CyberArk, ForgeRock, and SailPoint platforms. The ideal candidate will architect and implement enterprise identity security solutions covering privileged access management, identity governance, authentication services, secrets management, and automation frameworks. Manage non-human identities.
•The role also requires strong experience in automation and scripting to streamline identity lifecycle management, privileged account operations, and security integrations across enterprise environments.
•Cyber Security Architect specializing in Identity and privileged access management with extensive experience in CyberArk, SailPoint and ForgeRock platforms. Expert in secure identity architecture, secrets management and automation using scripting and REST APIs to enhance enterprise security posture.

Mandatory Skills:
•CyberArk Privileged access management.
•ForgeRock IDAM.
•SailPoint Identity governance.
•Secret management Hashi Corp etc.

Duties and Responsibilities:
•Privileged account onboarding and lifecycle management in CyberArk.
•Enterprise secrets management in Vault.
•API key, SSH keys management.
•Design and implement enterprise IAM architecture using ForgeRock and SailPoint platforms.
•Joiner, Mover, Leaver processes.
•Access provisioning and deprovisioning.
•Role based and attribute access control.
•Implement SAML, OAuth2 and MFA.

Qualifications & Certifications (Optional):
•CyberArk CDE preferred
•SailPoint certified Identity IQ Engineer.
•ForgeRock Certified identity management specialist.

Salary Range: >$100,000

Date of Posting: 10-Mar-26

Next Steps: If you feel this opportunity suits you, or Cognizant is the type of organization you would like to join, we want to have a conversation with you! Please apply directly with us.

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