The role requires strong hands-on provisioning expertise to establish authoritative identity sources, automate joiner/mover/leaver processes, support employee and student identities, including dual affiliations, and implement monitoring, reconciliation, error handling, and deprovisioning safeguards. The architect will define the target-state IAM architecture, create a phased modernization roadmap, and guide implementation according to modern IAM, security, governance, and least-privilege practices.