Senior Principal CIAM Architect - Secure External Identities

Medtronic; Mounds View (MN); On-site; USD 156,000 - 234,000; Full time

Job summary

Medtronic in Minnesota is seeking a Senior Principal CIAM Architect to lead architecture strategy for customer identity platforms. This onsite role collaborates with business and technology teams to design secure, scalable identity solutions for Medtronic's external-facing products.

You will guide evaluation and deployment of IAM technologies, maintain standards, and ensure security and operational readiness, with opportunities to influence enterprise CIAM direction.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree with 10+ years of IT/CIAM/IAM experience.
• 5+ years as Technical Architect for CIAM/IAM enterprise platforms.
• 5+ years designing, implementing, or supporting IAM solutions at enterprise scale.
• 5+ years in information security engineering, cybersecurity engineering, or software development.

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 identity solutions.
• Provide technical leadership for the evaluation, selection, implementation, and enhancement of IAM 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.

Skills

CIAM Architecture

Solution Design

Security Engineering

Stakeholder Collaboration

Vendor Management

Education

Bachelor's degree in IT/CS or related field

Advanced degree in Computer Science or related

Job description

Medtronic in Minnesota is seeking a Senior Principal CIAM Architect to lead architecture strategy for customer identity platforms. This onsite role collaborates with business and technology teams to design secure, scalable identity solutions for Medtronic's external-facing products.

You will guide evaluation and deployment of IAM technologies, maintain standards, and ensure security and operational readiness, with opportunities to influence enterprise CIAM direction.