IAM Architect

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Global Banking and Markets (GBM) is a leading Canadian Capital Markets and Investment Banking business with a growing platform in the US and Latin America, operating globally for over 100 years. Scotiabank’s strong U.S. presence provides our clients an important bridge to this key global market for trade and investment flows across the Americas and the world.

Global Banking & Markets provides a full range of investment banking, credit and risk management products and services relevant to the financing and strategic development needs of our clients. Our products include debt and equity financing, mergers & acquisitions, corporate banking, institutional equity sales, trading and research, fixed income products, derivatives, energy, foreign exchange and precious & metals. We also cross-sell the full range of wholesale products and services offered by the Scotiabank Group.

Be part of an innovative, Global Capital Markets and Investment Banking business with a unique geographic footprint that puts capital to work for our clients across industries! We work together to drive ambition for every future!

We are seeking an IAM Architect to join Information Security’s Identity Access Management Team. The ideal candidate has strong leadership skills and in‑depth knowledge of the IAM security domain, with a strong focus of authentication technologies, industry standards, and emerging protocols. Candidate to deliver Scotiabank’s next generation IAM platform; in alignment with long term product roadmap, as part of a large‑scale transformation.

The Identify Access Management (IAM) Architect will work with business channels and product team to understand the challenges facing them, provide solutions to these challenges and recommend architecture and design to bring modern capabilities to various IAM platforms.

• Be responsible for the architecture and design of new features/capabilities that Scotiabank is looking to introduce into the IAM platform (Microsoft Entra  / Forge Rock / Ping).
• Design the technical roadmap to support user identity and application migration from on‑premises Identity Provider to Microsoft Entra .
• Provide subject matter expertise surrounding the various security controls (MFA, Conditional Access Policies, Intune Device Management) within Microsoft platform.
• Configure and validate architectural designs within the Entra Platform to verify solutions and new capabilities proposed for adoption.
• Review the business requirements (the “what”) provided by the IAM Product team and provide the overall architectural design (the “how”) to the IAM Engineering team to build into the IAM service.
• Provide required design artifacts to key stakeholders which clearly outlines the solution, components involved, key decisions, and time and cost estimates.
• Closely collaborate with IAM Engineering partners in all aspects of the design and ensure alignment and synergy regarding proposed solution.
• Evaluate new authentication capabilities introduced into the ever‑changing IAM landscape and account for what is applicable into proposed designs (short‑term and long‑term).
• Partner with various cross‑functional architect teams (IAM, security, business channel, fraud) to solidify design approach which aligns with best practices and strategic direction of the platform.
• Collaborate with stakeholders across the Bank – technology, security architecture, security advisory, fraud, compliance and business channel teams – to provide enterprise‑grade solutions which meet the business and security requirements.
• Represent the IAM Architecture team on various governance boards but providing both expertise and the required artifacts necessary to ensure stakeholder approval.
• Design based on strong CIAM expertise that aligns with industry standards (FIDO, OIDC, OAUTH), best practices (MFA, NIST 800‑63B) and a forward‑looking mentality (Passkeys, VCs, DIDs).

• 10+ years in IAM space with 3+ years in an architect role.
• 5+ years of experience working within CIAM space (Forge Rock, Okta,…