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You’ll step into a lead architect role at the heart of Vodafone UK’s digital ecosystem, shaping how millions of Consumer and Enterprise customers securely access and manage their services. Working across web, app, chatbot, and telephony channels, you’ll help create seamless, trusted login experiences while influencing the future of customer identity and authentication.
Job Responsibility:
Lead and influence the authentication product roadmap, using your end-to-end Identity and Access Management (IDAM) expertise to guide long-term architectural direction
Shape the architectural runway to support new and evolving capabilities such as passwordless and biometric login (FIDO2), adaptive and risk-based authentication, and social sign-ins
Evaluate and adopt modern authentication protocols and open standards to meet clear business and customer outcomes
Partner closely with Product Owners, Technical Product Owners, UX, Engineering Managers, and senior developers to define functional and non-functional requirements and design robust end-to-end solutions
Own impact assessments and solution blueprints, including providing VROM and ROM estimates for new business demands
Champion incremental delivery, supporting phased planning and helping teams ship customer value early and often
Ensure solutions align with AWS/Azure Well-Architected Framework principles, with a strong focus on security, resilience, scalability, maintainability, and cost efficiency
Protect the integrity and reusability of authentication solutions throughout their lifecycle, keeping designs as simple and elegant as possible
Requirements:
Deep expertise in federated identity management and security concepts, and strong working knowledge of standards such as OpenID Connect, OAuth2, SAML, and related RFCs
Proven experience designing and delivering enterprise-scale identity solutions for B2C or B2B platforms
Strong background designing cloud-based services using microservices and micro-frontend architectures
Hands-on experience defining and designing RESTful APIs to industry standards
A solid understanding of AWS or equivalent Well-Architected Framework pillars, especially security, scalability, performance, maintainability, and cost management
Ability to communicate solution designs clearly using standard modeling approaches such as UML or C4
Confident communicator who can explain complex technical concepts clearly to both technical and non-technical stakeholders
Practical experience working within Agile delivery methodologies such as Scrum, Kanban, or Lean
Experience integrating enterprise-grade SaaS-based IDAM platforms
What we offer:
Excellent basic salary plus bonus and Vodafone benefits