12 hours ago
Toronto, CanadaSenior
Base Salary
$120k - $129k/yr
Responsibilities
- Design end-to-end product architecture for identity and access management solutions across enterprise platforms.
- Define identity lifecycle, authentication, authorization, entitlement, audit, and integration patterns.
- Translate identity requirements into architectural blueprints in collaboration with product managers and business stakeholders.
- Analyze existing identity systems and propose modernization approaches that improve performance, resilience, and maintainability.
- Guide development teams on implementing identity protocols and secure access mechanisms.
- Review technical designs and implementation artifacts for architectural alignment, security vulnerabilities, and integration risks.
- Define performance, capacity, availability, and disaster recovery requirements for identity services with security and infrastructure teams.
- Drive adoption of reusable identity services, including single sign-on and role-based access control.
- Document architecture decisions, identity patterns, data flows, and integration contracts.
- Monitor production identity services using logs, metrics, and analytics and recommend improvements.
- Mentor peers and junior engineers on identity design practices.
- Evaluate identity controls for transaction validation, fraud checks, and audit trails when check processing capabilities are in scope.
Requirements
- Six to eight years of experience in identity and access management, including user provisioning, access modeling, authentication flows, and policy enforcement.
- Strong understanding of directory services, tokens, and federated identity concepts.
- Practical experience integrating identity platforms with enterprise applications and middleware.
- Familiarity with check processing or related financial transaction domains is required for relevant product scopes.
- Ability to work effectively in a hybrid model using remote collaboration practices.
- Strong problem-solving and analytical skills for diagnosing identity issues and balancing security, usability, and cost.
- Effective communication skills for explaining architectural decisions, risks, and benefits to technical and nontechnical stakeholders.
Benefits
- Full-time hybrid work model in Ottawa, Ontario.
- Extended health coverage through Manulife, prescription drug coverage, virtual care through TELUS Health, mental health and counselling services, employee assistance, and virtual pharmacy services.
- Retirement benefits including a registered pension plan with employer matching up to 3%.
- RRSP contributions are available, without RRSP matching.
- Eligibility for a discretionary annual incentive program based on performance and applicable plan terms.
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About Cognizant
Cognizant is a public IT services and consulting firm that designs, builds, and runs enterprise technology, including digital engineering, cloud modernization, data/AI, and managed services. It sells consulting, systems integration, and outsourcing on multi-year engagements to large enterprises in healthcare, banking, retail, communications, and manufacturing. Founded in 1994 and headquartered in Teaneck, New Jersey, Cognizant is NASDAQ-listed (CTSH) and a Fortune 500 company.