Acuity
Acuity
Acuity is an Atlanta-based industrial technology company specializing in lighting and building management solutions. Through Acuity Brands Lighting and Acuity Intelligent Spaces, its approximately 13,000 associates develop smart lighting products and intelligent space management tools that help customers improve experiences, productivity, and sustainability. The company combines data interoperability with advanced technology platforms to address evolving needs in construction, consulting, and energy-related environments.

Platform and Identity Architect - Onsite

Design and advance secure IAM and CIAM platforms for Acuity’s industrial technology products. Lead authentication, authorization, identity governance, and scalable customer access.

Description

  • Shape IAM and CIAM architecture around Zero Trust and enterprise security principles
  • Create scalable authentication and authorization models for internal platforms and customer-facing applications
  • Define identity-service standards, reusable patterns, and reference architectures
  • Guide platform selection, integration strategy, and identity capability roadmaps
  • Lead identity solution design and implementation across Microsoft Entra ID, Okta, Auth0, Ping, and comparable providers
  • Develop and maintain SSO, MFA, passwordless authentication, RBAC and ABAC authorization, federation, identity brokering, B2B and B2C flows, and identity lifecycle management
  • Design customer identity services covering self-service registration, onboarding, lifecycle management, identity governance, and secure access across products
  • Enhance the user experience, security, and scalability of customer identity services
  • Implement MFA, adaptive authentication, conditional access, audit logging, access reviews, and regulatory compliance controls
  • Collaborate with engineering teams to embed identity services into applications
  • Support adoption through SDKs, APIs, documentation, and reusable implementation patterns
  • Serve as an internal identity consultant and subject matter expert
  • Maintain identity platforms that are highly available, scalable, secure, observable, monitored, and integrated with CI/CD and DevSecOps
  • Advance identity operations through continuous improvement and automation

Requirements

  • Bachelor’s degree in computer science, engineering, or a related discipline
  • At least 8–12 years of experience across software engineering, security, or identity
  • At least five years of hands-on IAM or CIAM implementation experience in enterprise or customer-facing environments
  • Demonstrated success designing and delivering identity solutions at scale
  • Broad experience with authentication and authorization capabilities
  • Practical experience with Microsoft Entra ID, including Azure AD and B2C, Okta, or comparable identity platforms
  • Strong knowledge of OAuth 2.0, OpenID Connect, SAML, JWT, identity federation, token-based authentication, Zero Trust, and access governance or compliance frameworks
  • Experience creating RBAC and ABAC authorization models
  • Experience with externalized, fine-grained authorization using OPA, Cedar, or XACML, including PDP and PEP architecture, policy testing, and fail-closed design
  • Experience with cloud platforms; Azure is preferred, while AWS or GCP is acceptable
  • Comfort working across both architecture and hands-on engineering responsibilities
  • Strong communication skills and the ability to influence cross-functional teams
  • Solid understanding of Agile delivery practices
  • Preferred experience includes privacy, consent management, customer data protection, AI-enabled identity, mentoring, CIAM user experience, enterprise-scale CIAM, AI, platform and API ecosystems, AI-driven security, identity automation, Terraform, Bicep, ADO, GitHub Actions, DevSecOps, and relevant certifications

Benefits

  • Equal opportunity employer
  • Reasonable application accommodations are available for people with disabilities
  • Support is provided for ADA-compliant accommodations
  • Assistance is available for application-system access and related process requirements

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