IDAM Solution Architect

In partnership with a leading global consulting enterprise, we are looking for an IDAM Solution Architect. You will be joining the team as a senior IDAM Architect working on Digital Identity which focuses on CIAM Federated Authentication and Identity data management solutions. You will assess new demand, and lead the solution design for taking demands forward into delivery, working collaboratively with business stakeholders, POs, TPOs and senior Devs when doing so. You'll also support resolving non-trivial issues found in delivery and production, and support reviewing and inputting into our evolving Digital Identity strategy and principles when needed.

Responsibilities:

• Work in collaboration with our product owners and wider technology community to periodically review and update our customer authentication & wider CIAM strategy.
• Impact asses new business Demands to provide a ROM (Rough Order of Magnitude) estimate based on a set of documented high-level requirements and solution assumptions.
• Work with POs, UX, and engineers to identify key e2e functional requirements & NFRs for new authentication features, and lead shaping of the solution design.
• Support phased delivery planning for complex features and push for small incremental deliverables to ship value to customers quickly.
• Ensure designs respect the principles of the AWS/Azure Well Architected Framework with respect to security assurance, resiliency & scalability, solution maintainability etc.
• Protect the integrity & reusability of the solution throughout the lifecycle, keeping it simple where possible.
• Support the Dev team RCA (Route Cause Analysis) & identify solution options for complex issues found during delivery or on live service when required.

Requirements:

• Extensive understanding of Federated Identity management & security concepts (e.g. pros and cons of In Advance vs Just in Time Provisioning etc.) and protocol standards (e.g. OpenID Connect, SAML 2, Oath2, RFC 8176 etc.) & ability to apply them to real world problems.
• Experience designing and delivering federated identity management solutions for enterprise-scale B2C or B2B use cases.
• Knowledge and experience designing (including defining key NFRs) for enterprise-scale services running on cloud platforms using microservice and micro-frontend patterns.
• Demonstrable knowledge and experience of REST API standards and API design.
• A good understanding of the AWS or equivalent Well-Architected Framework pillars and guidelines, particularly regarding application security, performance & scalability, solution maintainability & cost management.
• Demonstrable ability to convey solution designs using industry standard design frameworks such as UML (Unified Modelling Language) or C4 (Context, Containers, Components & Code).
• Good written and verbal communication skills; an ability to communicate with impact, ensuring complex info is articulated in a meaningful way to a cross-functional audience.
• A working knowledge of Agile delivery methodologies such as LEAN, Scrum & Kanban.

Desired:

• Experienced in working in SAFe and having a clear view of Value Stream aligned delivery.
• Experience designing and building TM Forum-compliant APIs.
• A working knowledge of event-based architecture concepts.
• Working knowledge of .Net/Java + Node & React or similar JavaScript-based technologies.