Lead Architect - Identity & Access Management

Lead Architect - Identity & Access Management

This is an individual contributor and thought leadership role.

1. Deliver IAM domain thought leadership to the teams in UK and EU time zone.
2. Create and sustain the Reference Architecture for the IAM cloud governance platform, and drive the full implementation and adoption.
3. Complete and sustain the definition of the infrastructure as code and interactive access model, finalize the definition of access cloud roles and policies in prod and non prod, and drive the enrollment of users. Create a sustainable process to maintain the roles and create new roles on demand.
4. Deliver an automated governance process by analyzing and categorizing the provisioning request fulfilled by the IAM team, and migrating them to IAC while inserting them in the RBAC model.
5. Work very tightly with the cloud team and the M&A teams specialized in cloud operations, reuse and adopt as much as their assets as possible (policies, roles, blue prints).
6. Take ownership and holistic leadership for IAM on VISA greenfield cloud based roll outs and ensure fully standard deployments where 95% of administrative operations are executed through IAC and only rare troubleshooting activities are operated interactively.
7. Deliver holistic view of the control effectiveness with metrics and KPIs.
8. Participate in the security assessment efforts to ensure that no non-standard applications get pushed to production.
9. Drive the reference architecture and policy posture for non prod cloud environment.
10. Contribute coding assisted by GenAI when required.

This is a hybrid position. Expectation of days in office will be confirmed by your hiring manager.

Basic Qualifications:
• 10+ years of relevant work experience with a Bachelor's Degree or at least 7 years of work experience with an Advanced degree (e.g. Masters, MBA, JD, MD) or 4 years of work experience with a PhD, OR 13+ years of relevant work experience.

Preferred Qualifications:
• 12 or more years of work experience with a Bachelor's Degree or 8-10 years of experience with an Advanced Degree (e.g. Masters, MBA, JD, MD) or 6+ years of work experience with a PhD.
• At least 10 years of engineering experience in the IAM domain on a large operation in the financial industry.
• Experience of planning, deploying and driving adoption of major IAM solutions: IDM (Sailpoint), PAM, RBAC, PBAC, ABAC.
• Avid learner.
• Hands-on Development experience capable of coding leveraging GenAI.
• Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science (or equivalent) from an accredited university.
• Experience in matrixial engineering team management.
• Minimum of 10 years of experience in architecting, designing and developing large enterprise class applications with increasing responsibilities.
• A minimum of 7+ years of security architecture experience working with large scale transaction processing ecosystems.
• Conducting in-depth technical reviews of enterprise systems in order to identify the appropriate mitigation strategies required to bring these systems into compliance with established policy and industry guidelines.
• Providing ongoing gap analysis of current policies, practices, and procedures as they relate to established guidelines outlined by industry standards.
• Deep experience in architecting mission critical application(s).
• Proficient in Java/J2EE technology with at least 10 years of development experience in building highly available secure applications.
• Expertise in securing the integration of multiple environments across on-premise, multi-cloud, and hybrid architectures. Strong understanding of application and network security.
• Experience as technical lead organizing and mentoring junior and intermediate level engineers/developers.
• Knowledge in cybersecurity team for Mergers and Acquisitions is a strong plus for this role.

Visa is an EEO Employer. Qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, national origin, sexual orientation, gender identity, disability or protected veteran status. Visa will also consider for employment qualified applicants with criminal histories in a manner consistent with EEOC guidelines and applicable local law.