IAM​/Security Infrastucture Architect

SMBC Group is a top-tier global financial group. Headquartered in Tokyo and with a 400-year history, SMBC Group offers a diverse range of financial services, including banking, leasing, securities, credit cards, and consumer finance. The Group has more than 130 offices and 80,000 employees worldwide in nearly 40 countries. Sumitomo Mitsui Financial Group, Inc. (SMFG) is the holding company of SMBC Group, which is one of the three largest banking groups in Japan.

SMFG’s shares trade on the Tokyo, Nagoya, and New York (NYSE: SMFG) stock exchanges.

In the Americas, SMBC Group has a presence in the US, Canada, Mexico, Brazil, Chile, Colombia, and Peru. Backed by the capital strength of SMBC Group and the value of its relationships in Asia, the Group offers a range of commercial and investment banking services to its corporate, institutional, and municipal clients. It connects a diverse client base to local markets and the organization’s extensive global network.

The Group’s operating companies in the Americas include Sumitomo Mitsui Banking Corp. (SMBC), SMBC Nikko Securities America, Inc., SMBC Capital Markets, Inc., SMBC MANUBANK, JRI America, Inc., SMBC Leasing and Finance, Inc., Banco Sumitomo Mitsui Brasileiro S.A., and Sumitomo Mitsui Finance and Leasing Co., Ltd.

SMBC is seeking a highly skilled and motivated IAM and Security Infrastructure Architect to join our Infrastructure Solutions Architecture team. Security is a shared responsibility and as complex solutions are being designed and implemented we need to ensure these initiatives consider necessary infrastructure aspects. The person in this role will assist with the definition of the strategy and design in coordination with the existing Infrastructure and Information Security teams, help establish standards and policies, develop implementation plans, and transition implementation and operational functions to applicable teams.

An ideal candidate will have background and experience in the technologies and implementation methods related to both infrastructure and security architecture/engineering.

• Member of a team that establishes and drives infrastructure architecture with a specific focus on security requirements and best practices in a global, hybrid, multi-cloud environment.
• Work directly with Information Security to develop and promote infrastructure requirements within security-related initiatives and ensure that security requirements are integrated into infrastructure projects.
• Increase operational and financial efficiencies through identification of opportunities to standardize security toolsets and practices within a multi-company environment.
• Ensure that the proposed and existing infrastructure architectures are aligned with organizational goals and objectives.
• Provide architecture collaboration with other architecture, engineering, and application teams, translating application team needs into technical solutions and product requirements.
• Drive Infrastructure security and compliance requirements into the architecture framework.
• Facilitate documentation of existing systems architecture and technology portfolios (e.g., architecture, configuration, and setup) and make recommendations for improvements and/or alternatives.
• Provide effective knowledge transfer and upskilling to relevant Architecture and Engineering personnel.
• Design with operations in mind. Look for ways to automate and improve operations.
• Maintain strong relationships and identify opportunities for strengthening synergies between varying Infrastructure and IT Security teams.

• Experience with identity infrastructure and synchronization technologies including Active Directory, Entra , LDAP, SAML, SCIM, EID Connect, Cloud Synch, and MIM.
• Background in end-to-end identity provisioning/deprovisioning standards and best practices including HRIS to IdP relationships and attribute management.
• Familiarity with authentication infrastructure, protocols, and access controls (GPO, Conditional Access, MFA, ADFS, Application Protection Policy, etc).
• Familiarity with Microsoft native and competing security products such as Entra Identity…