Identity and Access Management (IAM) Architect
Oostakker, BE, 9041 Göteborg, SE, 417 55 Wroclaw, PL, 51-502 Venissieux, FR, 69200 Bangalore, IN, 562122 Greensboro, NC, US, 27409
Transport is at the core of modern society. Imagine using your expertise to shape sustainable transport and infrastructure solutions for the future? If you seek to make a difference on a global scale, working with next-gen technologies and the sharpest collaborative teams, then we could be a perfect match.
What you will do
We are looking for a skilled Identity and Access Management (IAM) Architect. The IAM Architect will be responsible for designing, developing, and managing the identity and access management architecture, ensuring secure and streamlined access to our company’s systems and providing technical/architectural oversight across multiple IAM projects. The ideal candidate is familiar with a variety of IAM concepts, practices, and procedures, including Identity Governance and Administration, Privileged Access Management, and Identity Security.
You will be reporting to the Director of Digital Identity and working in close collaboration with our partners, application delivery teams within Group Digital & IT, Volvo’s global community of IT architects, and business stakeholders in a multicultural and global environment.
Volvo Group Digital and IT has a strategic goal to strengthen the Identity and Access Management area, with a focus on providing more modern and secure solutions to our employees, external partners, and IT Delivery teams, increasing IT security, and standardizing on common, off-the-shelf platforms and services.
Your role will be to identify, design and enforce architectural choices that can support Volvo Group’s long-term strategy, while on the other hand preventing architectural choices that can be an obstacle to it. You value simplicity and are willing to challenge technical constraints and procedures to achieve robust, maintainable, and scalable solutions. You will be the visionary force behind our technical solutions and are responsible for planning and developing architectural roadmaps in line with Volvo Group architectural principles.
The services in the Digital Identity portfolios are:
• Identity Governance and Administration (IGA)
• Access Management
• Web Access Management and Federation Services
• Directory Services (Active Directory and Entra ID)
• Privileged Access Management (PAM)
• PKI/Certificate/Secrets Management Services
• Consumer/B2C Identity Management
What are your responsibilities?
In your role, you will:
- Be accountable for the Identity and Access Management architecture for Volvo Group.
- Contribute to the long-term architecture for the entire IT infrastructure portfolio by contributing to related processes and forums.
- Provide technical leadership for the integration of IAM systems and across multiple IAM projects and delivery.
- Work with stakeholders to understand their IAM requirements and translating them into technical specifications.
- Actively oversee IT service development projects to ensure architectural support, requirement gathering and breakdown, compliance, consistency and certification.
- Contribute to the development of guidelines, methods and frameworks
Who are you?
Do you dream big? We do too, and we are excited to grow together. In this role, you will bring:
- 10+ years of experience in enterprise-wide Identity implementations, focusing on access governance, identity management, and policy enforcement.
- Hands-on experience with Saviynt IGA.
- Broad and diverse experience across cybersecurity strategy, operations, security architecture, cloud security, and identity and access management.
- Ability to engage executive level stakeholders on complex matters with limited oversight and guidance and think strategically and tactically, with effective decision-making skills.
- Experience with web access management and federation technologies such as Ping Access / Ping Federate, Microsoft Entra Application Proxy
- Strong leadership experience overseeing Identity engineering and compliance teams.
- Familiarity with governance frameworks and regulatory compliance standards.
- Experience working with cloud environments such as Microsoft Azure, AWS, and Google Cloud Platform.
- Proven ability to develop RBAC policies, access risk management, and compliance frameworks.
What’s in it for you?
We offer a solid package of compensation and benefits, plus you will enjoy:
- Competitive medical, dental and vision insurance.
- Generous paid time off including paid caregiver and parental leave policies.
- Competitive matching retirement savings plans.
- Working environment where your safety, health and wellbeing come first.
- Focus on professional and personal development through Volvo Group University.
- Programs that make today’s challenging reality of combining work and personal life easier.
Ready for the next move?
Are you excited to bring your skills and disruptive ideas to the table? We can’t wait to hear from you. Apply today!
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Who we are and what we believe in
Our focus on Inclusion, Diversity, and Equity allows each of us the opportunity to bring our full authentic self to work and thrive by providing a safe and supportive environment, free of harassment and discrimination. We are committed to removing the barriers to entry, which is why we ask that even if you feel you may not meet every qualification on the job description, please apply and let us decide.
Applying to this job offers you the opportunity to join Volvo Group. Every day, across the globe, our trucks, buses, engines, construction equipment, financial services, and solutions make modern life possible. We are almost 100,000 people empowered to shape the future landscape of efficient, safe and sustainable transport solutions. Fulfilling our mission creates countless career opportunities for talents with sharp minds and passion across the group’s leading brands and entities.
Group Digital & IT is the hub for digital development within Volvo Group. Imagine yourself working with cutting-edge technologies in a global team, represented in more than 30 countries. We are dedicated to leading the way of tomorrow’s transport solutions, guided by a strong customer mindset and high level of curiosity, both as individuals and as a team. Here, you will thrive in your career in an environment where your voice is heard and your ideas matter.