Enterprise IAM Architect, VP

About this role

Do you want your voice heard and your actions to count?

Discover your opportunity with Mitsubishi UFJ Financial Group (MUFG), one of the world’s leading financial groups. Across the globe, we’re 150,000 colleagues, striving to make a difference for every client, organization, and community we serve. We stand for our values, building long-term relationships, serving society, and fostering shared and sustainable growth for a better world.

With a vision to be the world’s most trusted financial group, it’s part of our culture to put people first, listen to new and diverse ideas and collaborate toward greater innovation, speed and agility. This means investing in talent, technologies, and tools that empower you to own your career.

Join MUFG, where being inspired is expected and making a meaningful impact is rewarded.

The selected colleague will work at an MUFG office or client sites four days per week and work remotely one day. A member of our recruitment team will provide more details.

Job Summary:

The Enterprise Identity & Access Management (IAM) Architect is a senior architecture role responsible for defining the global IAM strategy, standards, and target architecture for a large, regulated enterprise. This role serves as the architectural authority and “North Star” owner for IAM, setting the direction that workforce, cloud, and platform teams execute against across regions. This position focuses on architecture, standards, and governance, not day‑to‑day operations or tool administration. The Enterprise IAM Architect ensures that identity and access controls are consistent, scalable, auditable, and aligned with regulatory and risk expectations—while still allowing regions and platforms to adopt capabilities based on maturity.

Key Responsibilities:

Global IAM Strategy & Architecture • Define and maintain the global IAM target state and multi‑year maturity roadmap (crawl → walk → run). • Establish enterprise‑wide IAM architectural standards and reference patterns used by regional and platform teams. • Own and curate the Enterprise IAM Pattern Book, ensuring patterns are reusable, authoritative, and consistently applied. • Set global direction for authorization models, including RBAC and the evolution toward ABAC / PBAC where appropriate. •

Standards, Governance & Decision Authority • Act as the design authority for IAM, including decisions on global standards versus managed regional exceptions. • Ensure IAM architecture aligns to regulatory and control frameworks (e.g., NIST CRI, NIST CSF, internal risk standards). • Partner with risk, compliance, audit, and security leadership to ensure IAM controls are defensible and auditable by design. •

Metrics & Maturity Management • Define global IAM success metrics and maturity indicators in partnership with IAM Governance and Standards teams. • Ensure metrics support visibility into adoption, control coverage, exception trends, and risk reduction. • Use metrics to guide architectural evolution and prioritize improvements across regions and platforms. •

Collaboration & Enablement • Work closely with Workforce Identity, Cloud IAM, Machine Identity, and Governance architects to ensure consistent execution of global standards. • Provide architectural guidance and review for major IAM initiatives and platform integrations. • Influence senior stakeholders across technology, security, and business teams without direct authority.

What This Role Is — and Is Not This role is: • Strategic and architectural • Focused on standards, patterns, and long‑term direction • A global role working across regions and platforms

This role is not: • A hands‑on IAM engineering or operations role • A single‑tool or vendor‑specific position • A regional IAM delivery role

Required Qualifications • 10+ years of experience in identity, access management, security architecture, or related enterprise architecture roles. • Demonstrated experience defining enterprise‑level IAM strategies, standards, or reference architectures. • Strong understanding of authentication, authorization, identity lifecycle, privileged access, and governance concepts. • Experience working in regulated environments (e.g., financial services, healthcare, critical infrastructure). • Proven ability to influence senior technical and non‑technical stakeholders.

Preferred Qualifications • Experience operating in global or federated organizations with regional autonomy. • Familiarity with IAM maturity models and large‑scale transformation programs. • Experience aligning IAM architecture to risk, audit, and regulatory frameworks. • Background collaborating with cloud, platform, and security architecture teams.

What Success Looks Like • Clear, adopted global IAM standards with reduced bespoke implementations • Consistent identity and access controls across regions despite varying maturity levels • Improved audit outcomes and reduced identity‑related risk • Faster, more predictable onboarding of platforms, applications, and users

Why This Role Matters

Identity is foundational to security, compliance, and digital transformation. This role ensures IAM evolves intentionally and consistently, enabling the business while protecting the enterprise as technology, automation, and AI continue to scale.

“Visa sponsorship/support is based on business needs. We do not anticipate providing visa sponsorship/support for this position.

The typical base pay range for this role is between $166K - $192K depending on job-related knowledge, skills, experience, and location. This role may also be eligible for certain discretionary performance-based bonus and/or incentive compensation. Additionally, our Total Rewards program provides colleagues with a competitive benefits package (in accordance with the eligibility requirements and respective terms of each) that includes comprehensive health and wellness benefits, retirement plans, educational assistance and training programs, income replacement for qualified employees w

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