IAM Security IT Architect

At Azqore, we understand that information security is more than a necessity – it’s a passion. That’s why we’re looking for an security architect who shares our commitment to excellence and the protection of our banking partners.

Role purpose

The IAM Security IT Architect defines and governs secure application architectures, with a strong focus on digital identity, authentication, federation, and authorization. The role translates business, regulatory, and cybersecurity requirements into scalable architecture patterns and guides delivery teams from design through implementation and operation.

Your main responsibilities:

• Define target architectures, principles, standards, and reusable patterns for secure applications and APIs. Design authentication, federation, authorization, and session-management solutions across cloud, hybrid, and on-premises environments.

• Assess the existing SSO federation landscape and propose a technical rationalisation programme, including target-state architecture, platform consolidation opportunities, migration priorities, dependencies, risks, and a phased implementation roadmap.

• Define and govern authentication patterns for native and cross-platform mobile applications, including OAuth 2.0 Authorization Code Flow with PKCE, secure system-browser or broker-based sign-in, deep-link and redirect URI protection, device binding, biometric re-authentication, and secure token storage using platform-provided keystores.

• Support projects during early-stage architecture and solution design, helping teams assess options, define secure target designs, and address identity and application security requirements before implementation.

• Lead architecture decisions for SSO using SAML 2.0, OpenID Connect, WS-Federation, and OAuth 2.0 and specify secure token lifecycles, claims models, trust relationships, certificate management, key rotation, and logout patterns.

• Define, document, maintain, and promote enterprise authentication and federation standards, implementation guidelines, and reusable patterns for software developers.

• Participate in troubleshooting sessions with production and operations teams responsible for API gateways, supporting the diagnosis and resolution of authentication, authorization, token, federation, and integration issues.

• Participate in the IAM team’s on-call rotation, providing operational support beyond authentication services and contributing to incident diagnosis, escalation, and resolution across the team’s technology portfolio, including CyberArk Privileged Access Management (PAM), Public Key Infrastructure (PKI), and Hardware Security Module/Key Management System (HSM/KMS) services.

• Maintain architecture documentation, decision records, reference implementations, and technology roadmaps.

Profile:

Required Technical Expertise:

• Advanced knowledge of SAML 2.0, OpenID Connect, OAuth 2.0, and WS-Federation, including protocol flows, assertions, tokens, scopes, claims, and trust models

• Strong command of authentication methods, including phishing-resistant MFA, FIDO2-based passwordless authentication as well as Passkey, adaptive access, and step-up authentication.

• Hands-on knowledge of identity and federation platforms, ideally including WSO2 Identity Server, Active Directory Federation Services (AD FS), Microsoft Entra ID (SSO and Conditional Accesses), and Keycloak. But other experiences in other solutions like Okta, Ping Identity or Forgerock will be considered.

• Good understanding of SPA security architecture, including browser-based threat models, secure use of tokens, cross-origin controls, and the security benefits and trade-offs of the Backend-for-Frontend (BFF) pattern.

• Optional Working knowledge of privileged access management, PKI, cryptographic key management, and hardware security technologies; exposure to CyberArk PAM and enterprise HSM/KMS platforms is highly desirable.

• Familiarity with zero-trust principles, cloud security architecture, container platforms, CI/CD security, and infrastructure as code.

• Ability to interpret regulatory, audit, and risk requirements and translate them into effective technical controls.

Qualifications and Experience :

• Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in computer science, cybersecurity, information systems, engineering, or a related discipline, or equivalent professional experience.

• Typically ten or more years of experience in IT IAM architecture, application security, IAM, software engineering, or related fields.

• Demonstrated experience designing and governing enterprise authentication and federation solutions.

• Proven ability to influence multidisciplinary teams and communicate complex risks to technical and non-technical stakeholders.

• Certifications in the administration of authentication, identity, or federation platforms are considered an advantage.

• Certifications in offensive web application security and web penetration testing are considered an advantage.

• CISSP certification is considered an advantage; other relevant certifications such as Microsoft SC-300 or SC-100 are also desirable.

Benefits at Azqore:

• Generous healthcare contribution (300 CHF/month).

• 27 days of annual leave for work-life balance.

• Attractive pension plan (“LPP”).

• Extended paternity leave of 1 month.

• Embrace flexibility with our flex office policy.

Who is Azqore ?

Azqore is a leader in outsourced banking services. We are one of the entities under Credit Agricole Indosuez Wealth Management, providing integrated solutions to our clients : with our core banking system and the solution of outsourcing of backoffice banking operations.

Backed up by the banking and financial strength of Crédit Agricole Group with its global presence and resources made available by Capgemini under our strategic agreement and positioned as the expert partner for the digital transformation of tomorrow's Wealth Managers with a single ambition: to make S2i the technology and banking operations platform of choice for the Wealth Managers in its international markets.

Our business has a single purpose : building partnerships with tomorrow's Private Bankers and Wealth Managers.