Software Architect - Privilege Access Management

Saviynt is an identity authority platform built to power and protect the world at work. In a world of digital transformation, where organizations are faced with increasing cyber risk but cannot afford defensive measures to slow down progress, Saviynt’s Enterprise Identity Cloud gives customers unparalleled visibility, control and intelligence to better defend against threats while empowering users with right-time, right-level access to the digital technologies and tools they need to do their best work.

Saviynt Labs

This opportunity is in the Saviynt Labs organization.   We design, build, and run the leading Enterprise Identity solutions.  Our product teams innovate industry-leading solutions.  The engineering teams design, build and run SaaS software built on leading edge technologies.  We focus on engineering excellence, and we attract the best talent in our industry.   Our cloud services are built on AWS, GCP and Azure with a global presence.  Our customers love what we do and work with us to build the future customer experience at scale. 

WHO WE’RE LOOKING FOR

Do you want to help enable our customers in their digital transformation and continue to evolve our platform? If you answered yes, Saviynt is the place for you. We are a distributed global R&D team that is extremely focused on building a platform that solves the toughest security and compliance challenges while helping Saviynt maintain its leadership position in delivering enterprise identity cloud solutions.

Saviynt’s Enterprise Identity Cloud helps modern enterprises scale cloud initiatives and solve the toughest security and compliance challenges in record time. The company brings together identity governance (IGA), granular application access, cloud security, and privileged access (PAM) to secure the entire business ecosystem and provide a frictionless user experience. The world’s largest brands trust Saviynt to accelerate digital transformation, empower distributed workforces, and meet continuous compliance.

Do you want to help enable our customers in their digital transformation and continue to evolve our platform? If you answered yes, Saviynt is the place for you. We are a distributed global R&D team that is extremely focused on building a platform that solves the toughest security and compliance challenges while helping Saviynt maintain its leadership position in delivering enterprise identity cloud solutions. 

We encourage you to apply and bring your expertise if you’re a:

Collaborative Partner: Working side-by-side with business colleagues and interacting with customers, you’ll address their technical challenges and ensure quality through collaborative, test- and behavior-driven development

Problem Solver: Complex problems often require innovative, creative approaches—and you’ll work to come up with outside-the-box solutions to solve them

Customer-Centric Developer: You understand who we’re here to serve and the products you develop will keep the end-user front and center

Forward Thinker: Merely fixing a problem isn’t enough – using your proactive mindset and initiative, you’ll also identify opportunities to enhance performance, quality, and efficiency

Motivated Mentor: Exercise your technical chops while coaching and collaborating with junior software engineers.

• Help define overall architectural principles, frameworks, and standards
• Contribute to the architecture strategy and manage the alignment to the product roadmap
• Combine a broad understanding of current technologies with deep, architect-level expertise in core areas such as database design, software architecture, cloud architecture & infrastructure architecture
• Provide input on technology selection and help drive best practices
• Guide early-phase application design decisions through strong communication skills and deep technical expertise
• Drive technical decisions to support critical success factors like performance, security, scalability, and maintainability; and identify opportunities for improvement in those same areas in existing systems
• Facilitate and drive technical design conversations as part of the backlog grooming process across development teams
• Review and create a system, software, and technical design specifications that fulfill product requirements
• Provide hands-on development where appropriate to help deliver architecture that supports product delivery, and train and lead other developers in how to leverage new architectures or technologies

• Bachelors degree or an equivalent work experience
• Minimum of 5+ years of Software architect experience with customer-facing, large-scale, web-based, or SaaS applications. Overall 10+ years of experience.
• Minimum 2+ years of software development or software architect experience with Privileged Access management with any of the leading PAM products
• Deep, hands-on, architect-level understanding of various java frameworks (spring boot, grails etc.)
• Strong knowledge of architectural styles and design patterns. Microservices experience and the development of APIs are a strong plus.
• Hands-on knowledge of deployment patterns for cloud deployments - AWS & Azure
• Extremely clear communicator with a listen-first approach.
• Thorough knowledge of key cloud platform components such as AWS RDS, Elastic Search, RabbitMQ/ActiveMQ, Kafka, Kubernetes, and Spring cloud framework.
• Thorough knowledge of security principles and patterns of Authentication and Authorization, Single sign-on, and federation. Knowledge of spring security, SAML, OAuth, etc is also highly preferred.
• Expertise in analyzing and troubleshooting large-scale distributed systems and willingness to help the support and development teams diagnose and address production issues
• Ability to balance the long-term (“big picture”) and short-term implications of individual decisions

If required for this role, you will:

- Complete security & privacy literacy and awareness training during onboarding and annually thereafter

- Review (initially and annually thereafter), understand, and adhere to Information Security/Privacy Policies and Procedures such as (but not limited to):

> Data Classification, Retention & Handling Policy

> Incident Response Policy/Procedures

> Business Continuity/Disaster Recovery Policy/Procedures

> Mobile Device Policy

> Account Management Policy

> Access Control Policy

> Personnel Security Policy

> Privacy Policy

Saviynt is an amazing place to work. We are a high-growth, Platform as a Service company focused on Identity Authority to power and protect the world at work. You will experience tremendous growth and learning opportunities through challenging yet rewarding work which directly impacts our customers, all within a welcoming and positive work environment. If you're resilient and enjoy working in a dynamic environment you belong with us!

Saviynt is an equal opportunity employer and we welcome everyone to our team.  All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability, or veteran status.