Sr. Principal CIAM Architect

$143,300 - $196,500/Yr

TIAA - Woodbridge Township, NJ

Full-time - Senior

Woodbridge Township, NJ

Securities, Commodity Contracts, and Other Financial Investments and Related Activities

About the position

The Sr. Principal CIAM Architect at TIAA is responsible for leading the design and implementation of Customer Identity and Access Management (CIAM) solutions that support the organization's mission-critical systems. This role involves transforming end-user needs into technical solutions, integrating CIAM with other security systems, and ensuring alignment with organizational objectives. The architect will also oversee complex projects, collaborate with various stakeholders, and establish best practices to enhance system performance.

Responsibilities

• Manage the delivery of large, complex projects using appropriate frameworks and collaborating with stakeholders to manage scope and risk.
• Drive profitability and continued success by managing service quality and cost and leading delivery.
• Measure and communicate progress to leadership within committed time frames.
• Provide support to the organization's mission critical systems and lead complex architecture requirements to convert end-user needs into technical solutions.
• Design, develop, and enhance services that are across every interaction between TIAA, its users, and partners.
• Collaborate with other engineering teams, IT, and business stakeholders to understand requirements and deliver innovative identity solutions that meet organizational needs.
• Communicate with stakeholders on technical standards, principles, methodologies, and trends.
• Enhance overall system operational characteristics by establishing best practices for code quality, reduction in tech debt, build frameworks or shared techniques to enhance engineering effectiveness.
• Identify opportunities for refactoring, API changes, solution designs, and other types of tech debt remediation.
• Influence stakeholders to drive technical decision-making for the right selection of technology by providing direct, understandable, and actionable advice.
• Work with standards defining organizations to understand the evolving standards, identify gaps, provide inputs on platforms gaps, contribute to roadmap planning to build world class CIAM platform.
• Drive decision-making with stakeholders who have different views for simple to complex problems with the business requirements to help synthesize the best solution.
• Conduct Proof-of-Value (POV), Proof-of-Concept (POC) by partnering with vendor and internal resources.

Requirements

• Minimum of 8+ years of demonstrated experience in designing and implementing IAM solutions within a medium-to-large scale and complex environment with focus on Customer Identity.
• Experienced in implementing Identity orchestration tools like FlexID from Transmit Security.
• Expert level knowledge of IAM concepts like SSO, Federation, Role Based Access Control (RBAC).
• Possess an in-depth understanding of IAM protocols such as OAuth2, SAML, OIDC, SCIM and Kerberos.
• Demonstrated experience in creating architecture design, roadmaps for security platforms.

Nice-to-haves

• Possess a CIAM related certification.
• Experience driving decision-making with stakeholders who have different views for simple to complex problems with the business requirements to help synthesize the best solution.
• Advanced verbal and written communication skill with ability to interact across all levels in the organization.
• Experience with Proof-of-Value (POV) and Proof-of-Concept (POC).
• Demonstrated conceptual knowledge of CI/CD and Infrastructure as Code (IaC).
• Experience of writing Ansible playbooks to support installation and configuration of Ping products.
• Familiarity with Linux operating system.
• Prior experience of System Administration and / or Application Development.
• 2+ years of direct experience with Ping suite of products - Ping Access, Ping Federate, Ping Directory.

Benefits

• Comprehensive Total Rewards package including retirement program and competitive health, wellness, and work-life offerings.