PKI Architect

The senior architect role drives complex design, development, and implementation activities to provide PKI related services to the business across a large set of digital certificate use cases. The role drives both tactical improvements to drive service enhancements but also develops innovative strategic initiatives to provide future state solutions. The role is aligned to a number of technologies including, but not limited to, Microsoft’s Active Directory Certificate Services, Network Device Enrollment Services (NDES), Online Certificate Status Protocol (OCSP), Thales Hardware Security Modules (HSM), Venafi Trust Protection Platform, and Intune certificate connectors.

The PKI architect role provides the opportunity to work in a highly complex, global organization to design, develop, and deploy new or enhanced PKI services to support the business with innovative solutions. The position offers the candidate the ability to work within a large scale, highly available, and secure set of technologies to support delivery of PKI services to the business.

While PKI services must be highly secure, consistent, and reliable, the architect will also drive services designed to provide or integrate with automated provisioning services.

• Partner with all stakeholders and external vendors to design, develop, deploy and support the best possible solution to meet EY business needs.
• Assess and define problems or opportunities for improvement by providing documented business, functional, operational, and security requirements to be addressed by future state solutions.
• Design innovative solutions that address key lifecycle management functions to support the needs of the business.
• Communicate design approaches and recommendations to gain stakeholder approval and agreement.
• Coordinate design activities across multiple teams and services to ensure successful completion of complex projects.
• Develop technical and functional solutions that integrate with business processes.

The role requires an advanced analytical acumen and solution orientation to understand the nuances of X.509 digital certificate use cases and technologies including but not limited to Microsoft PKI, OCSP, HSM’s, and Venafi software services and other identity and secure access technologies in current use across geographic regions and to drive current and next generation PKI solutions within the strategic directives of the business.

The role additionally requires a high degree of consultative questioning, influence management, and critical thinking skills to understand a current directive and recommend and/or design viable solutions that are both cost effective and support the value to the business.

• A deep understanding of digital certificate lifecycle management functions and broad experience with different certificate types and uses.
• A broad understanding of the available PKI vendors and technologies offering technical solutions in the market.
• Knowledge and experience with cryptographic protocols, services, and standards.
• Ability to collect, refine, and analyse business requirements and develop innovative solutions.
• Strong communication skills both verbal and written.

• Experience with key PKI technologies such as Microsoft Active Directory Certificate Services including Certificate Authority, NDES, OCSP and Intune Certificate Connector.
• Experience with Thales Luna Hardware Security Modules (HSMs).
• Experience with Venafi Trust Force and Trust Authority.
• Experience with automation of certificate lifecycle management functions.
• Experience with certificate request and issuance processes integrating to Service Now automation.
• Programming and/or script development experience.

A successful candidate would be a highly motivated and performance-oriented individual that can develop future state visions and successfully drive measurable improvement in delivery of PKI services. The candidate should be able to clearly communicate with all levels of stakeholders from technical through executive level sponsors. EY has a culture of…