Senior Principal CIAM Architect
About The Position
The Senior Principal CIAM Architect serves as the technical leader for Customer Identity and Access Management capabilities supporting Medtronic’s external-facing products and services. The role defines architecture strategy, leads solution design and engineering, 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 CIAM function is responsible for the architecture, strategy, engineering, and operational governance of identity services that support customer-facing digital products and platforms. The team works across business and technology organizations to provide secure, scalable, and compliant identity and access solutions for external users. The position is designated onsite at Medtronic’s Mounds View, Minnesota facility, with consideration for candidates at other U.S.-based Medtronic facilities listed in the posting.
Requirements
- Bachelor’s degree with 10 or more years of experience, or an advanced degree with 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 enterprise-scale identity and access management solutions.
- At least 5 years of experience in information security engineering, cybersecurity engineering, or software development.
Nice To Haves
- Active 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.
- 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.
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
- Health insurance
- Dental insurance
- Vision insurance
- Health Savings Account
- Healthcare Flexible Spending Account
- Life insurance
- Long-term disability leave
- Dependent daycare spending account
- Tuition assistance/reimbursement
- Global well-being program
- Incentive plans, including the Medtronic Incentive Plan
- 401(k) plan with employer contribution and match
- Short-term disability
- Paid time off
- Paid holidays
- Employee Stock Purchase Plan
- Employee Assistance Program
- Non-qualified Retirement Plan Supplement, subject to IRS earning minimums
- Capital Accumulation Plan, available to Vice Presidents and above or subject to IRS earning minimums
- Competitive compensation and flexible benefits package
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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Full-time
Career Level
Senior
