The ideal candidate will be someone with experience of delivering large scale Identity and access management capabilities preferably in secure public sector environments.

Experience and skills:

Effective decision making and the ability to understand, solve and resolve technical challenges across varying levels of complexity and risk

Takes responsible for leading the technical design of systems and services, justify and communicate design decisions

Has experience of the identity and access management domain, including authentication protocols (OAuth, OpenID Connect and SAML) and account life cycle

Comfortable with Java application stacks, REST API, Linux virtual server environments, cloud hosting (eg AWS or Azure), IP Networking, configuration of ports and Firewalls, DNS, certificates

Provide technical leadership to the build teams and drive the value delivery in iterative dev/test cycles.

Undertake structured analysis of technical issues and translating this analysis into technical designs that describe the required solution

Identify opportunities to collaborate and reuse components, communicating with both technical and non-technical stakeholders

Excellent communication and presentation skills and the ability to collaborate with senior stakeholders and 3rd parties providing technical direction and establishing agreements

Able to provide technical leadership, guide and mentor the development team to build solutions according to the design

Able to assimilate vendor product integration requirements and make design and technical decisions for optimal use of off-the-shelf and custom Java components, ensuring high performant systems, scalability and maintainability.

Technical governance and the assurance of required digital identity services ensuring best practices are followed

Good working knowledge of open source and Java technologies, including APIs and microservices

Able to interact with and guide a skilled DevSecOps team

Agile development methods - Scrum, Kanban, TDD, BDD, etc.