Senior IT System Architect - CIAM

Key Responsibilities

• Embrace enterprise architecture direction and standards.
• Design and develop integrated process, application, data, and technology architecture solutions for business problems, aligned with enterprise architecture direction and standards.
• Develop specifications for new products and services around the PING product, applications, and service offerings for CIAM processes.
• Work closely with the Program Delivery Lead as part of the IT program transversal team.
• Act as a transversal System Architect across CIAM streams: onboarding, authentication, authorization, and lifecycle.
• Assess the compatibility and integration of products and services proposed as standards to ensure an integrated architecture across interdependent technologies.
• Design architecture supporting the end-to-end CIAM platform strategy based on the PING product.
• Support transversal architecture for efficient, scalable integration with other initiatives.
• Evaluate new IT developments and evolving business requirements; recommend appropriate system alternatives or enhancements.
• Perform technical planning, architecture development, and specification modifications.
• Bridge business, security, architecture, and engineering through clear, actionable requirements.
• Produce concise, executive-ready governance materials, including status, risks, and decisions.
• Contribute to the System Architect Community of Practice and improve ways of working, delivery effectiveness, and consistency across teams.

Key Requirements

• Extensive knowledge of business operations, information landscapes, application platforms, and technical infrastructure.
• Strong analytical capability and thorough understanding of system development and implementation processes.
• Interpersonal skills to build alignment around strategies and proposed architecture solutions.
• Understand long-term business needs and identify the technical, data, and application architectures needed to meet them.
• Assess business operations, identify challenges and opportunities, and recommend appropriate solutions.
• Translate business requirements into structured business-process, knowledge, technology, and organizational specifications that meet strategic and operational objectives.
• Develop business cases and perform impact analysis while engaging stakeholders across business and IT.
• Use judgment to develop or improve standards and translate IT strategies into operational plans.
• Work with systems of varying complexity across functional and location boundaries; navigate change and uncertainty in business processes, strategies, and frameworks.
• Improve IT architecture processes, including future-state blueprint definition, architecture guideline definition, and project definition.
• Provide architecture guidance to senior IT management, IT project management, and application development stakeholders.

What We Offer

• Work with inspiring, supportive, and engaged colleagues in an international environment.
• Learning and development environment focused on knowledge sharing and training.
• Competitive salary and comprehensive benefits.
• Hybrid working model with office attendance 8 days per month and remote-working options.
• Inclusive workplace that welcomes applicants from all backgrounds and experiences.

About the Team

The Group Digital Capabilities division delivers reliable and sustainable IT solutions for financial securities markets. Teams deliver new IT solutions, improve existing applications for internal and external clients, deploy changes to production in a controlled and structured manner, and provide application production support.