Director, Lead Solutions Architect, IAM

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About the role

  • Lead Solutions Architect overseeing architectural delivery in Identity and Access Management for Global Security at RBC. Manage teams, define solutions, and propose strategies within IAM domain.

Responsibilities

  • Responsible for architectural delivery in the Identity and Access Management domain for Global Security at RBC
  • Manage a team of Solution Architects to ensure effective architectural delivery across several projects and solutions
  • Define solutions realizing workforce, third-party, customer, non-human and agentic IAM capabilities
  • Develop and evolve solution architectures and designs
  • Propose, evaluate and recommend solution alternatives that best meet business strategy, requirements, current state environment constraints and alignment to target state architecture
  • Deliver architectures and designs in agile/SAFe project delivery framework
  • Support the agile team’s delivery by ensuring sufficient architecture runways is available
  • Provide technical leadership and guidance
  • Support the development of comprehensive IAM strategy roadmaps
  • Provide input to product backlog refinement, prioritization and feasibility assessments
  • Ensure the delivery teams have sufficient focus on addressing technical debt
  • Author patterns to drive reuse of IAM services across the bank
  • Liaise with other enterprise architecture and development/engineering teams to ensure that all solution architecture views are defined and elaborated
  • Participate in and support the execution of RBC architecture governance

Requirements

  • Technical leadership and strong verbal and written communication skills
  • Extensive knowledge and application of IAM capabilities: authentication, authorization, user, credential and role management, access certification, privileged access management, secrets management, etc.
  • Hands-on experience with designing solutions with these capabilities and the use of these solutions across all types of user populations
  • Experience designing enterprise security services that are highly reusable across a wide variety of requirements and use cases
  • Extensive experience in designing solutions to meet regulatory requirements in Canada, the UK and US applicable to the financial services industry
  • Diverse solutioning experience in a variety of environments, platforms and channels
  • Practical experience in a variety of protocols and standards in solutions, including SAML, OAuth, OIDC, SCIM, FIDO2, NIST 800-63, etc.
  • Practical experience with different architecture and design framework (e.g., Zachman, TOGAF, SABSA) and techniques (e.g., OO, Top-down, structured analysis, component-based design)
  • Extensive experience in applying IT risk management practices to assess, measure and reduce risk related to the IAM domain
  • Bachelor’s degree in a technical area of study (computer science, mathematics, engineering, etc.) or other BS/BA degree with a concentration in computer science or information systems
  • IT experience of 8+ years with 5+ years in solution architecture experience on large projects, with proven experience in defining and evolving the architectures of solutions with large user bases from project initiation to implementation to support

Benefits

  • A comprehensive Total Rewards Program including bonuses and flexible benefits
  • Competitive compensation
  • Commissions and stock where applicable
  • Leaders who support your development through coaching and managing opportunities
  • Ability to make a difference and have a lasting impact
  • Work in a dynamic, collaborative, progressive, and high-performing team
  • Opportunities to do challenging work
  • Opportunities to take on progressively greater responsibilities

Job type

Full Time

Experience level

Senior

Salary

Not specified

Degree requirement

Bachelor's Degree

Location requirements

OnsiteTorontoCanada

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