Remote Architect

Summary

The job is for an Architect for Identity and Authorisation at Xero's Catalyst Engineering team. The role involves defining strategic roadmaps for identity, authentication, and authorisation platforms, working with product architects and engineers to drive the adoption of new platform capabilities, and having a strong background in Customer Identity & Access Management domain.

Requirements

• Familiarity with Customer Identity & Access Management domain, either building or consuming the capabilities to manage user identity, authentication and authorisation for digital products that serve millions of users
• Effective at translating between high-level business strategy to an actionable roadmap for your area
• Familiarity with common identity and access patterns including identity federation and fine-grained authorisation
• Familiarity with API security in a cloud-native environment
• Familiarity with cloud providers and have worked with AWS, GCP or Azure
• Software engineering background is beneficial
• Familiarity with domain-driven design and its application in synchronous and asynchronous integration of complex data driven, customer-facing systems
• Understanding the information security, risk management, data privacy and compliance considerations in the software development lifecycle
• Great listening, problem-solving, communication and coaching skills

Responsibilities

• Define strategic roadmaps for the technical capabilities of our identity, authentication and authorisation platforms
• Work with product architects and engineers to drive the adoption of new and evolving platform capabilities and best practices within their products

Benefits

• Generous paid leave, dedicated paid leave to care for physical and mental wellbeing, health insurance, life insurance, income protection, wellbeing and sports programmes, employee resource groups, 26 weeks of paid parental leave for primary caregivers, an Employee Share Plan, beautiful offices, flexible working, career development
• Employee Assistance Program to access mental health care for you and your family