Senior Principal CIAM Architect
About The Position
The Customer Identity and Access Management (CIAM) function is responsible for the architecture, strategy, engineering, and operational governance of identity services supporting Medtronic’s customer-facing digital products and platforms. The team partners across business and technology organizations to provide secure, scalable, and compliant identity and access solutions for external users accessing Medtronic products and services. The Senior Principal CIAM Architect is the technical leader for CIAM capabilities supporting external-facing products and services. This role defines architecture strategy, leads solution design and engineering activities, and ensures operational excellence across CIAM platforms. The architect partners with business stakeholders, technology teams, and external vendors to deliver secure, scalable identity solutions aligned with enterprise standards and business objectives. The position is designated onsite and is based at Medtronic’s facility in Mounds View, Minnesota. Consideration is also given to candidates located at other U.S.-based Medtronic facilities in Irvine, California; Jacksonville, Florida; North Haven, Connecticut; Fort Worth, Texas; Lafayette, Colorado; Boston, Massachusetts; and Memphis, Tennessee. Mounds View is strongly preferred.
Requirements
- Bachelor's degree and 10 or more years of experience, or an advanced degree and 8 or more years of experience, in information technology, cybersecurity, software engineering, or related technical disciplines.
- At least 5 years of experience serving as a Technical Architect for an enterprise CIAM or IAM platform.
- At least 5 years of experience designing, implementing, or supporting identity and access management solutions at enterprise scale.
- At least 5 years of experience in information security engineering, cybersecurity engineering, or software development.
- For baccalaureate degrees earned outside the United States, a degree satisfying the requirements of 8 C.F.R. § 214.2(h)(4)(iii)(A) is required.
Nice To Haves
- Active Certified Information Systems Security Professional (CISSP) certification or comparable industry-recognized security certification.
- At least 2 years of experience as a Product Owner or in a comparable platform ownership role.
- Prior Medtronic experience.
- Advanced degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related technical discipline.
- Experience developing and implementing large-scale consumer identity and access management solutions.
- Experience leading cross-functional and global teams in complex technology transformation or security initiatives.
Responsibilities
- Lead the architecture, design, and technical strategy for CIAM platforms supporting external users and customer-facing services.
- Define and maintain technology architecture standards, reference models, and design principles for CIAM solutions.
- Partner with business and technology stakeholders to translate requirements into scalable, secure, and operationally sustainable identity solutions.
- Provide technical leadership for the evaluation, selection, implementation, and enhancement of identity and access management technologies.
- Ensure platform security, availability, performance, monitoring, logging, and operational readiness across CIAM environments.
- Establish and maintain technical, operational, audit, security, and support documentation in accordance with enterprise standards.
- Evaluate emerging technologies, industry trends, and identity standards to drive continuous improvement and future-state architecture planning.
- Collaborate with vendors and service providers to resolve complex issues, assess new capabilities, and support proof-of-concept initiatives.
Benefits
- Competitive salary and flexible benefits package.
- Short-term incentive through the Medtronic Incentive Plan (MIP).
- Health, dental, and vision insurance for eligible regular employees working 20 or more hours per week.
- Health Savings Account and Healthcare Flexible Spending Account for eligible regular employees working 20 or more hours per week.
- Life insurance and long-term disability leave for eligible regular employees working 20 or more hours per week.
- Dependent daycare spending account for eligible regular employees working 20 or more hours per week.
- Tuition assistance or reimbursement for eligible regular employees working 20 or more hours per week.
- Simple Steps global well-being program for eligible regular employees working 20 or more hours per week.
- Incentive plans for all regular employees.
- 401(k) plan with employer contribution and match for all regular employees.
- Short-term disability and paid time off for all regular employees.
- Paid holidays for all regular employees.
- Employee Stock Purchase Plan for all regular employees.
- Employee Assistance Program for all regular employees.
- Non-qualified Retirement Plan Supplement, subject to IRS earning minimums, for all regular employees.
- Capital Accumulation Plan for Vice Presidents and above, or subject to IRS earning minimums, for all regular employees.
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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Full-time
Career Level
Principal
