Condatis - Identity Architect

Identity Architect - contractor

Identity Architect - contractor (3-6 months outside IR35, provisional start date: 9th Sep 2024)

Location: UK only – Hybrid Working to Edinburgh HQ 

Reports to: Chief Product Officer

Welcome to Condatis!

We are leading the way in cloud first digital identity products and solutions. We provide our customers with bespoke Identity and Access Management (IAM) solutions based on the Microsoft Entra product range. We are incredibly proud to be leading the way, using the latest Microsoft technologies, solving the most complex digital identity challenges in the market. In partnership with industry leaders such as Microsoft, the expertise of our talented and specialist team has enabled us to develop new technologies to solve complex business problems, secure our clients’ customer data, and streamline their digital services.

Our values represent the foundation of how we choose to work with each other and our customers and have been identified and created by our colleagues across the business.

Trusted - trust and transparent are the foundation of Condatis, encompassing the relationship with our team and partners and central to our customer solutions.

Inclusive - we want our team, clients and partners to feel respected and wanted where each has a sense of belonging. Diversity, equity and inclusion are central to successful relationships.

Collaborative - collaboration is the heart of our working practices. Our collaborative approach ensures success and development as a collective. From project teams to stakeholders, our emphasis on collaborative working means everyone is involved.

Passion for technology - as champions of privacy in a digital world, we are constantly curious. We are at the forefront of technology to bring its benefits to others. We love this part of our work and make time to explore new and future technologies to ensure people are always protected and our customers are always at a competitive advantage.

Your role

As part of the Architecture team, and reporting to the Chief Product Officer, you will work collaboratively with other Identity Architects, Business Analysts and Tech Leads and closely with the client and the rest of the delivery team. This is a high impact, high visibility role, that is responsible for ensuring customer satisfaction while promoting technical solutions.

How you are likely to spend your time

Working closely with clients to understand their needs and listen/understand their problems.
Translate complex customer requirements into viable solutions and functional architectures, ensuring consistency with requirements and alignment with business objectives.
Producing architecture diagrams for project solutions.
Producing high level design documentation to describe project solutions.
Identifying and assessing impact of non-functional requirements
Producing process flows, sequence diagrams illustrating system and component interactions.
Integrating Entra ID with other IAM tools, cloud services and on-premises systems.
Producing user stories in project backlog.

· Establishing policies, principles and practices for the selection of solution architecture components.

· Managing trade-offs and balancing functional, service quality and systems management requirements. Communicating proposed decisions to stakeholders.

· Coordinating and managing the target architecture across multiple projects or initiatives.

· Maintaining a stable, viable architecture and ensuring consistency of design and adherence to appropriate standards across multiple projects or initiatives.

At times contributing to backlog refinement, user story breakdown and estimation sessions.

Does this sound like you?

· Your strength is how you actively listen to the client and their requirements to solve problems.

· You have familiarity of working with and deploying in Microsoft Azure and Microsoft Entra, particularly MS Entra ID & ID Governance.

· You have knowledge and understanding of various architectural and cloud design patterns.

· You have knowledge and the ability to work with automation tools, like logic apps.

· You have the ability to analyse a variety of business problems and design suitable technical solutions.

· You are comfortable in communicating with clients and being the expert regarding their technical problem and providing a solution.

· You have the technical understanding to deliver integration solutions in the live environment.

· You understand how to architect a system in Entra/Azure while also being able to justify the reasoning for the design.

· You have experience taking ownership of the full design / architecture of a system.

· You are able to engage with and communicate across all levels and with all stakeholders up to and including Board level.

Can you demonstrate?

· Experience in designing and deploying Microsoft Identity Manager

o Including Sync Service and Portal

o Experience developing custom management agents and sync rules

· Experience with complex Logic Apps integrating with non Microsoft applications, platforms and APIs

· Familiarity with Microsoft Graph API and Web APIs including REST

· Experience with Entra Lifecycle Workflows including custom tasks

· Experience with Azure Data Fabric (Microsoft Exam DP-203), would be a nice to have.

You have the right to work in the UK. IAM is our speciality and our successful team members will be required to pass BPSS and possibly UKSV SC screening.

What you can expect from us

Flexibility

We currently have a team of 50 colleagues, based around the UK and a fantastic office with great facilities, located centrally in Edinburgh.

We treat our colleagues and our contractors as adults and have a flexible approach to how and from where, people work. We do believe that in person connection is important, so our colleagues living in/near Edinburgh are in the office once a week or more. The rest of our colleagues work from the office every couple of weeks or for those based further away, they visit Edinburgh every quarter for our regular social events. These are a great opportunity have some fun and connect in-person with one another!

Given this is a contractor role, it would be helpful to have you within the Edinburgh area and/or capable of coming into the office on a regular basis (1-2 a week) to help accelerate your onboarding and get to know the team and the work we do.

Communication

We have a weekly Good Morning Condatis call and monthly Town halls to keep everyone up to speed with the business. We also have quarterly social events to get together so if you fancy seeing the sights of this wonderful city, now is your chance!

Candidate experience

We aim to take between 1-3 weeks from first touch to offer and for this role, we expect there to be one interview with the hiring manager (Chief Product Owner) and a Solutions Architect. However, we may need to extend this to a two-stage process.

We are committed to equality and equity of opportunity for our colleagues and candidates and actively encourage applications from all backgrounds. We welcome all individuals regardless of educational background, age, gender, gender identity, gender reassignment, ethnicity, neurodiversity, disability, sexual orientation, pregnancy and maternity, race, religion or belief, marriage and civil partnerships and veteran status.

We want to provide an excellent candidate experience, where you can be yourself and show your best self. We appreciate that some people may need extra time to complete assessments, require alternative application methods and can also benefit from having interview questions or a guide to the type of questions pre-interview.

So, if there is anything we can do to improve your experience or any adjustments you need to be at your best, please let us know.

We are open to any suggestions or requests that you may have and are always looking for innovative ways to assess skills and behaviours.