Principal Architect IAM

Our client is an American multinational financial technology company operating an online payments system in the majority of countries that support online money transfers, and serves as an electronic alternative to traditional paper methods such as checks and money orders. The company operates as a payment processor for online vendors, auction sites and many other commercial users, for which it charges a fee.

They are championing possibilities for all by making money fast, easy, and more enjoyable. Their hope is to unlock opportunities for people in their everyday lives and empower the millions of people and businesses around the world who trust, rely, and use their services.

Responsibilities: 

• Engage with multiple teams of highly talented engineers and architects to design and develop highly scalable, secure and configurable identity solutions that meet the needs of our customers and stakeholders. 
• Actively engage with leadership across Product, Architecture, Design and Engineering to design, propose, discuss and refine new features and functionality. 
• 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, building frameworks or shared techniques to improve engineering effectiveness. 
• Identify opportunities for refactoring, API changes, and other types of tech debt remediation. 
• Influence management for driving technical decision-making for the right selection of technology by giving forthright, understandable, and actionable advice. 
• Work with standards defining organizations to understand the evolving standards, identify gaps, provide inputs on platform gaps, contribute to roadmap planning to build world class CIAM platform. 
• Drive decision-making with team members with different views for simple to complex problems with the business requirements to help synthesize the best solution. 

Requirements: 

• You must have significant business knowledge and technical expertise in application design and architecture, as well as knowledge of related domains of technical architectures (network, security, and infrastructure engineering), information architectures, and data architectures. 
• Expert in back-end development using Java EE technologies (e.g. Java language, application servers, servlet containers, JMS, JPA, Spring MVC, Hibernate). 
• In-depth knowledge of identity management technologies, protocols, and standards, and competent in designing solutions for reliability, availability, scalability, and performance. 
• In-depth knowledge of Identity standards such as OAuth 2.0, Open ID Connect, SCIM etc. 
• Must be a self- starter, work independently or as a team member, and have strong communication skills in interfacing with business partners and the Technology. 
• Strong OOP skills, with ability to analyze requirements and transform into scalable software designs. 
• Experience with HTTP, REST API's and competent designing and building web services/microservices in a commercial setting. 
• Knowledge of SQL and other/NoSQL/modern database and storage technologies. Desired understanding of Oracle, JDBC and ORM frameworks (e.g. Hibernate). 
• Experience with Design Patterns, MVC and frameworks (e.g. Spring). 
• Competent in software engineering tools (e.g. Java build tools) and best practices (e.g. unit testing, test automation, continuous integration, etc.). 
• Serve as a strong advocate of code craftsmanship, good coding standards and use of tools that will improve the quality of the delivered code 
• Experience with using Agile/Scrum methodology for software development 
• Deep understanding of web services and SOA related standards like REST/OAuth/JSON and SOAP/WSDL. 
• Extra credit: Provide your GitHub account or code samples with your resume!