Domain Architect - IAM Operations

Job Summary

JOB TITLE: Lead Solution Architect LOCATION: HYD, India HOURS: 35 hours, full time WORKING PATTERN: Our work style is hybrid, which involves spending at least two days per week, or 40% of our time, at one of our office sites. About this opportunity The Identity & Authentication Platform delivers capabilities to enable LBG business areas secure client and digital authentication and identity across all their digital channels. The Platform delivers core products including Identity & Authentication as a Service, giving end-to-end packaged services of several components for self-serve consumption. The Lead Solution Architect is vital in ensuring the products we deliver are fit for purpose and meet the quality and standards that our customers expect. You’ll realise business value by delivering reliable, scalable, and working software to our customers. You’ll be responsible for the design, architecture decisions, and defining the end-to-end impacts (both functional and non-functional). You should also be comfortable communicating information to different customers, from business partners to the engineering community. What will I be doing?

• Lead and collaborate with other industry-leading architects, engineers, and technicians within and outside of the platform to create robust and scalable solution designs.
• Own the design of solutions throughout the entire delivery lifecycle, providing guidance and direction ensuring alignment to Product objectives.

Key Responsibilities

Through expert engineering and architectural skills, translate high-level business requirements into technology architectures that align to the strategic architecture.

• Lead senior business partners to secure strong engagement for the solution and ensure that delivery aligns to longer-term roadmaps.
• Take designs through governance processes with meaningful architectural artefacts and ensure the required engineering and architecture cohorts are engaged as required throughout the design phase.
• Mentor and lead other engineers and build a strong team culture through peer-to-peer teamwork and development. What you’ll need
• Strong software engineering and architecture background.
• Experience of working delivering Digital Transformation Solutions.
• Excellent Partner management skills.
• Knowledge of agile development practices with a history of technical leadership.
• Experience across the entire solutions development lifecycle from inception, through build to Production.

Skill Requirements

You'll appreciate and acknowledge the impact of system design decisions on scalability, resilience, and supportability.

• Experience of API design and architecture patterns.
• Experience with Public & Private Cloud Solutions, ideally Google Cloud Platform and Open Shift Container Platform.
• Good understanding of Authentication and Authorisation concepts. It would be great if you also had:
• Knowledge of delivery of microservices to Production.
• Experience with Docker and container orchestration tools e.g. Kubernetes.
• Understanding of Data Architecture.

Other Requirements

Experience of designing and implementing zero trust models. Our focus is to ensure we're inclusive every day, building an organisation that reflects modern society and celebrates diversity in all its forms. We want our people to feel that they belong and can be their best, regardless of background, identity, or culture. We were one of the first major organisations to set goals on diversity in senior roles, create a menopause health package, and a dedicated Working with Cancer initiative. And it’s why we especially welcome applications from underrepresented groups. We’re disability confident. So if you’d like reasonable adjustments to be made to our recruitment processes, just let us know.