Zip Co · 1 day ago
Senior Enterprise Architect, CIAM
United States
Full-time
Remote
Senior Level, Lead/Staff
$190K/yr - $200K/yr
10+ years expZip Co is a digital financial services company offering innovative products. They are seeking a Senior Enterprise Architect to lead the Customer Identity & Access Management strategy, ensuring secure and scalable identity solutions while influencing product and platform roadmaps.
FinanceFinancial ServicesFinTechPayments
Responsibilities
Define and own Zip’s long-term CIAM strategy and architectural vision
Establish customer identity as a foundational digital capability that supports growth, trust, and risk management
Act as the internal subject matter expert on CIAM trends, patterns, and emerging technologies
Champion modern, passwordless, and low-friction authentication approaches including passkeys, biometrics, device binding, and adaptive authentication
Define target-state CIAM architectures covering registration, authentication, authorization, session management, consent, and recovery
Develop and maintain CIAM reference architectures, design principles, and decision frameworks
Provide architectural guidance and design review for customer-facing identity implementations
Ensure CIAM designs integrate cleanly with fraud, risk, data, and analytics capabilities for adaptive and contextual trust decisions
Serve as a trusted advisor to Product, Engineering, Design, and Platform teams on customer identity design decisions
Influence product and platform roadmaps to ensure identity experiences are consistent, secure, and scalable
Partner with Security to align CIAM designs with enterprise risk posture, regulatory expectations, and control requirements
Collaborate with Fraud and Risk teams to incorporate behavioral, device, and contextual signals into authentication strategies
Contribute to and help shape identity governance forums spanning Security, Enterprise Architecture, Product, Risk, and Engineering
Define shared CIAM standards, risk thresholds, and architectural guardrails
Ensure alignment between customer identity patterns and broader enterprise identity principles
Provide guidance on ownership boundaries between CIAM platforms and workforce IAM systems
Define CIAM maturity models and modernization roadmaps
Advise leadership on strategic investments in CIAM platforms, authentication technologies, and identity infrastructure
Monitor regulatory, privacy, and industry developments impacting customer identity and authentication
Help leadership evaluate trade-offs between security, user experience, fraud prevention, and operational complexity
Qualification
Required
A bachelor's degree in Computer Science or Software Engineering
Demonstrated ability to lead technical initiatives, guide teams, and inspire confidence
Proven track record of successfully leading large-scale CIAM projects with a focus on performance, scalability, and reliability
10+ years of experience in identity, security, and enterprise architecture, with deep expertise in Customer Identity and Access Management (CIAM) for large-scale, customer-facing platforms, including OAuth 2.0, OpenID Connect, and SAML
Experience leading CIAM strategy, architecture, and modernization initiatives leveraging passkeys, biometrics, device trust, and adaptive MFA
Experience mentoring and guiding engineering teams
Strong ability to foster a collaborative and high-performing engineering culture through knowledge sharing, technical mentorship, and cross-functional partnership
Exceptional communication and stakeholder management skills, with the ability to influence and drive alignment across engineering, product, and security teams on complex technical projects
Experience driving adoption of AI-based development tools, and a strong understanding of their potential and limitations
Preferred
A graduate degree
TOGAF certification
Prior architecture experience
Experience in fintech
Benefits
Flexible working culture
Incentive programs
Unlimited PTO
Generous paid parental leave
Leading family support policies
Company-sponsored 401k match
Learning and wellness subscription stipend
Beautiful Union Square office with a casual dress code
Industry-leading, employer-sponsored insurance for you and your dependents, with several 100% Zip-covered choices available
Company
Zip Co
Zip Co Limited (ASX: ZIP) is a digital financial services company, offering innovative, people-centred products that bring customers and merchants together.
1001-5000 employees
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Funding
Current Stage
Public CompanyTotal Funding
$1.55BKey Investors
Victory Park CapitalWestpacNational Australia Bank
2025-12-15Post Ipo Debt· $283M
2024-07-17Post Ipo Equity· $146.05M
2024-01-16Post Ipo Debt· $225M
Leadership Team
Cynthia Scott
Managing Director and Group CEO
Peter Gray
Co-founder & Global COO
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