Lead Architect – IGA/IAM

🕒 May 14

🇬🇧 United Kingdom – Remote

⏰ Full Time

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Saviynt

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501 - 1000 employees

Founded 2010

☁️ SaaS

🔒 Cybersecurity

🏢 Enterprise

💰 $130M Private Equity Round on 2021-09

SaaS • Cybersecurity • Enterprise

Saviynt is a leading provider of cloud-based identity and access management (IAM) solutions. Their platform, known as the Identity Cloud, offers comprehensive identity governance, administration, and application access governance. Saviynt's solutions focus on secure identity management, ensuring compliance, modernizing legacy systems, and supporting multi-cloud environments. They serve a wide range of industries including healthcare, financial services, and government sectors. Leveraging AI/ML, Saviynt provides in-depth insights and analytics for enhanced identity security. They are recognized for their robust capabilities in identity governance and administration, helping organizations to efficiently manage and protect employee, contractor, partner, and machine identities.

📋 Description

• Own end-to-end technical implementation of identity security solutions, ensuring successful delivery across requirements gathering, design, configuration, testing, and deployment phases to achieve rapid time to value. • Lead solution design for complex Identity Governance and Administration (IGA) implementations, ensuring alignment with enterprise architecture and security best practices. • Make and guide key architectural decisions, promoting design standards, integration patterns, and scalability across identity security solutions. • Provide technical leadership across the full SDLC, including system analysis, design, development, testing, and deployment. • Manage both technical and non-technical stakeholder communication, ensuring alignment and accountability across internal teams and customer/partner organisations. • Proactively identify technical risks, dependencies, and implementation challenges, driving mitigation strategies in collaboration with stakeholders. • Demonstrate thought leadership by conducting implementation reviews, performing comparative analysis of solution options, and delivering clear, strategic recommendations. • Act as a trusted advisor to customers and partners, supporting identity security strategy, roadmaps, and adoption of industry best practices. • Drive innovation by introducing modern design principles, emerging methodologies, and continuous improvement initiatives across implementations. • Guide and mentor engineers and consultants, fostering a culture of technical excellence, continuous learning, and knowledge sharing. • Support integration of identity solutions with enterprise platforms such as ERP systems, HR systems, and ITSM tools.

🎯 Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, or a related field, or equivalent practical experience. • Proven experience leading and delivering complex Identity Governance and Administration (IGA) implementations, with hands-on expertise in one or more leading IGA platforms. • Strong consulting and advisory skills, with the ability to translate business requirements into scalable technical solutions. • Deep understanding of identity governance principles, processes, and best practices within enterprise environments. • Excellent communication and technical presentation skills, with the ability to influence stakeholders at all levels. • Ability to lead multiple projects simultaneously while maintaining high standards of quality and delivery. • Strong experience in solution architecture, including microservices, integration patterns, and enterprise system design. • Strong problem-solving and troubleshooting skills, with high attention to detail. • Strong knowledge of SQL and ability to write complex queries. • Hands-on experience with Java/J2EE, REST and SOAP web services, and system integration. • Solid understanding of network fundamentals, cryptography, certificates, and Unix/Linux environments, including shell scripting. • Strong knowledge of identity systems such as LDAP and Active Directory, and protocols including SAML, OAuth, and SCIM. • Experience integrating with enterprise and cloud platforms such as SAP, ERP systems, Workday, and ServiceNow. • Experience with cloud platforms such as AWS and Azure is a plus.

🏖️ Benefits

• Complete security & privacy literacy and awareness training during onboarding and annually thereafter • Review (initially and annually thereafter), understand, and adhere to Information Security/Privacy Policies and Procedures