Senior Principal CIAM Architect
Medtronic
Summary
The Customer Identity and Access Management (CIAM) function is responsible for the architecture, strategy, engineering, and operational governance of identity services that support Medtronic's customer-facing digital products and platforms. This team partners across business and technology organizations to deliver secure, scalable, and compliant identity and access solutions that enable external users to access Medtronic products and services.
Job description
A Day in the Life
The Customer Identity and Access Management (CIAM) function is responsible for the architecture, strategy, engineering, and operational governance of identity services that support Medtronic's customer-facing digital products and platforms. This team partners across business and technology organizations to deliver secure, scalable, and compliant identity and access solutions that enable external users to access Medtronic products and services.
The Senior Principal CIAM Architect serves as the technical leader for Customer Identity and Access Management capabilities supporting external-facing products and services. This role is responsible for defining architecture strategy, leading solution design and engineering activities, and ensuring operational excellence across CIAM platforms. The individual will partner with business stakeholders, technology teams, and external vendors to deliver secure, scalable identity solutions that align with enterprise standards and business objectives.
Primary Responsibilities
- Lead the architecture, design, and technical strategy for Customer Identity and Access Management (CIAM) platforms supporting external users and customer-facing services.
- Define and maintain technology architecture standards, reference models, and design principles for CIAM solutions.
- Partner with business and technology stakeholders to translate requirements into scalable, secure, and operationally sustainable identity solutions.
- Provide technical leadership for the evaluation, selection, implementation, and enhancement of identity and access management technologies.
- Ensure platform security, availability, performance, monitoring, logging, and operational readiness across CIAM environments.
- Establish and maintain technical, operational, audit, security, and support documentation in accordance with enterprise standards.
- Evaluate emerging technologies, industry trends, and identity standards to drive continuous improvement and future-state architecture planning.
- Collaborate with vendors and service providers to resolve complex issues, assess new capabilities, and support proof-of-concept initiatives.
Required Qualifications
- Bachelor's degree with 10+ years of experience, or advanced degree with 8+ years of experience in information technology, cybersecurity, software engineering, or related technical disciplines.
- 5+ years of experience serving as a Technical Architect for a Customer Identity and Access Management (CIAM) or Identity and Access Management (IAM) enterprise platform.
- 5+ years of experience designing, implementing, or supporting identity and access management solutions at enterprise scale.
- 5+ years of experience in information security engineering, cybersecurity engineering, or software development.
Preferred Qualifications
- Active Certified Information Systems Security Professional (CISSP) certification or comparable industry-recognized security certification.
- 2+ years of experience as a Product Owner or in a comparable platform ownership role.
- Prior Medtronic experience.
- Advanced degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related technical discipline.
- Experience developing and implementing large-scale consumer identity and access management solutions.
- Experience leading cross-functional and global teams in complex technology transformation or security initiatives.
Requirements
- Bachelor's degree with 10+ years of experience, or advanced degree with 8+ years of experience in information technology, cybersecurity, software engineering, or related technical disciplines
- 5+ years of experience serving as a Technical Architect for a Customer Identity and Access Management (CIAM) or Identity and Access Management (IAM) enterprise platform
- 5+ years of experience designing, implementing, or supporting identity and access management solutions at enterprise scale
- 5+ years of experience in information security engineering, cybersecurity engineering, or software development
- Active Certified Information Systems Security Professional (CISSP) certification or comparable industry-recognized security certification (preferred)
- 2+ years of experience as a Product Owner or in a comparable platform ownership role (preferred)
- Advanced degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related technical discipline (preferred)
- Experience developing and implementing large-scale consumer identity and access management solutions (preferred)
- Experience leading cross-functional and global teams in complex technology transformation or security initiatives (preferred)
Benefits
- Health, Dental & Vision Insurance
- Health Savings Account
- Healthcare Flexible Spending Account
- Life Insurance
- Long-Term Disability Leave
- Dependent Daycare Spending Account
- Tuition Assistance
- Well-Being Program
- Incentive Plans
- 401(k) Matching
- Short-Term Disability
- Paid Time Off
- Paid Holidays
- Employee Stock Purchase Plan
- Employee Assistance Program
- Non-Qualified Retirement Plan Supplement
Company overview
Medtronic is a global healthcare technology leader and one of the world's largest medical device companies, founded in 1949 in Minneapolis, Minnesota. The company operates in over 150 countries and employs more than 90,000 people worldwide. Medtronic's mission is to alleviate pain, restore health, and extend life through innovative medical technologies. The company develops and manufactures devices and therapies to treat more than 70 health conditions, including cardiac devices, cranial and spine robotics, insulin pumps, surgical tools, patient monitoring systems, and more. With a rich history that began with the invention of the battery-powered pacemaker, Medtronic has grown into a diversified healthcare technology company with four main business units: Minimally Invasive Therapies Group, Diabetes Group, Restorative Therapies Group, and Cardiac and Vascular Group. The company's therapies help approximately 72 million people annually and represent a significant force in advancing medical technology to address some of humanity's most challenging health problems.