Director- Identity and Access Management Architect

Job Title: Director- Identity and Access Management Architect

GCL: F

Introduction to role:

Are you ready to architect the identity backbone that powers life-changing science at global scale This role puts you at the center of how our people partners and platforms securely connect enabling faster safer progress from discovery to delivery.

You will define the enterprise vision for identity and access and lead the practical shift from todays landscape to a resilient modern target state. By aligning technology decisions to business outcomes you will simplify how we work reduce risk and improve the developer and user experience across a sophisticated global environment.

You will combine deep technical expertise with strong communication and empathy to bring together engineers architects and business leaders. Can you see yourself shaping standards that hundreds of teams rely on while guiding the tradeoffs that keep us moving at pace

Accountabilities:

• Define and evolve the enterprise identity target state to enable secure friction-right access across users systems applications and data.
• Sequence the practical path from current-state to future-state balancing risk speed and value to deliver measurable improvements in security and usability.
• Produce and maintain reference architectures design patterns standards and architecture decision records; embed them across delivery teams and partner organizations to drive consistency.
• Act as a change agent who unites internal IAM engineers and external senior engineers business technology engineering leads and architects and enterprise architects around shared patterns and priorities.
• Lead and support design reviews for major initiatives; resolve cross-team technical disagreements; ensure identity choices scale and integrate across platforms and products.
• Ensure identity decisions account for security usability resilience adaptability and operational burden with clear non-functional requirements and metrics.
• Define and supervise measures of success so improvements are transparent supportable and balanced reducing toil while strengthening risk posture.

Essential Skills/Experience:

• Shape and maintain the enterprise identity target-state architecture and guide the practical transition from current-state to future-state ensuring solutions are secure supportable and measurable.
• Produce and govern architecture artifacts such as reference architectures design patterns standards and architecture decision records and use them to drive consistency across engineering teams and partner organizations.
• Act as a change agent across a federated delivery model: working with internal IAM engineers while also demonstrating external senior engineers business technology engineering leads and architects and enterprise architects to align on patterns sequencing and delivery tradeoffs.
• Lead and/or support design reviews for major initiatives resolve cross-team technical disagreements and ensure identity decisions account for security usability resilience auditability and operational burden.

Desirable Skills/Experience:

• Deep expertise with modern identity protocols and standards such as OAuth 2.0 OIDC SAML SCIM FIDO and WebAuthn.
• Hands-on knowledge of cloud identity platforms and ecosystems (e.g. Microsoft Entra ID/Azure AD AWS IAM GCP IAM) and hybrid identity patterns.
• Experience with identity governance and administration privileged access management and secrets management (e.g. SailPoint CyberArk HashiCorp Vault).
• Consistent record implementing Zero Trust architectures conditional access MFA device trust and just-in-time access.
• Strong understanding of audit compliance and regulatory requirements in large complex and global environments.
• Ability to translate sophisticated identity concepts into clear guidance for engineering teams with well-defined non-functional requirements and SLOs.
• Experience with automation and infrastructure-as-code for identity (e.g. Terraform CI/CD) and integration with enterprise logging and SIEM.
• Architecture frameworks or certifications that support structured decision-making (e.g. TOGAF SABSA) and experience facilitating architecture decision records.
• Background in resolving cross-domain design tradeoffs spanning security networking data and application platforms.

When we put unexpected teams in the same room we unleash bold thinking with the power to inspire life-changing -person working gives us the platform we need to connect work at pace and challenge perceptions. Thats why we work on average a minimum of three days per week from the office. But that doesnt mean were not flexible. We balance the expectation of being in the office while respecting individual flexibility. Join us in our unique and ambitious world.

Why AstraZeneca:

Here your architecture decisions will directly protect breakthrough science and the people delivering it while accelerating how we bring medicines to patients. You will work with modern technology and diverse experts brought together to fuel bold ideas with the support to test learn and scale what works. We value kindness alongside ambition pairing clear standards with real autonomy so you can connect trends to business goals and see your impact ripple across the enterprise.

If you are ready to build the identity foundation for a global mission and turn complex challenges into lasting enterprise-wide results this is your moment!

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AstraZeneca embraces diversity and equality of opportunity. We are committed to building an inclusive and diverse team representing all backgrounds with as wide a range of perspectives as possible and harnessing industry-leading skills. We believe that the more inclusive we are the better our work will be. We welcome and consider applications to join our team from all qualified candidates regardless of their characteristics. We comply with all applicable laws and regulations on non-discrimination in employment (and recruitment) as well as work authorization and employment eligibility verification requirements.