Manager of Solution Architecture

Career Growth, Flexibility and Collaboration!

Entrust is an innovative leader in identity-centric security solutions, providing an integrated platform of scalable, AI-enabled security offerings. Headquartered in Minnesota, we offer our colleagues the ability to work globally, in a flexible and collaborative environment. Our team makes an impact!!

The Company: Entrust relies on curious, dedicated and innovative individuals whom anticipate the future and provide solutions for a more connected, mobile and secure world. Entrust’s technologies and expertise help government agencies, enterprises and financial institutions in more than 150 countries serve and safeguard citizens, employees and consumers.

We Believe: Securing identities is most effective when we value all identities. We are committed to ensuring that, through diversity and inclusion, the many voices that make up our communities are heard. From unconscious bias training for managers to global affinity groups that create connections both within and across our enterprise, Entrust expects and encourages all individuals to accept and respect one another. And, of course, to be themselves.
Position Overview:  
Entrust is currently looking for a Manager to lead our Professional Services Global Solution Architecture team. This position will be fully remote in Canada and the United States, and will report to the Director, Professional Services.

This is a supervisory role with direct technical input/participation required on individual projects, occasionally. The role will challenge the successful candidate to hone their solution architecture skills for solutions ranging from PKI to Access Control to Card Production. The type of projects on which the team will be involved covers the complete set of software, solutions and services offered, commercially, by Entrust.
Responsibilities: 
Team Lead/Supervision – 60%

• Conduct team meetings
• Plan and oversee the work and quality of small teams of (or individual) Solution Architects for work products such as (but not limited to)

o ​​ Solution Architectures

o   Certificate Policies

o   Certificate Practice Statements

o   Threat Risk Analysis

o   Creation or analysis of policies and procedures

o   Fit-Gap Analysis between commercial products and customer requirements

o   RFP responses

• Collaborate with other Entrust stakeholders such as Project Managers, Product Engineering and System Integrators globally to ensure sufficient capacity and coordination regarding the team
• Respond to relevant estimate requests
• Day-to-day operational oversight and people-management tasks for the team

Technical Engagement – 30%

• Assist project implementation teams with spot expertise required to deliver projects. This could include (but is not limited to):

o   Design consultation

o   Consultation regarding new technology projects

• Act as point-of-contact for IT systems utilized by the global PS team such as:

o   Atlasian products such as Jira

o   Build servers

o   Hardware and software required by project teams in support of implementation

Process – 10%

• Collaborate within a team environment using a variety of methodologies and tools.
• Maintain a broad perspective and anticipate future challenges and opportunities.
• Develop plans and strategies with a global perspective in mind.
• Use creative, resourceful approaches to solve problems.

Basic Qulifications:

• Experinece with PKI & Identity Access Management
• 2+ years of Team Leadership experience
• Bachelor’s degree in CS, Engineering, Mathematics or related experience
• Design and implementation of integration components
• Experience with installing and configuring Windows or Red Hat Enterprise Linux.
• Experience with infrastructure tools including Jira and/or Confluence
• Must possess exceptional cross-team collaboration and communication
• ​Must be willing to travel 10 – 25%

About Entrust
Entrust keeps the world moving safely by enabling trusted experiences for identities, payments, and digital infrastructure. We offer an unmatched breadth of solutions that are critical to enabling trust for multi-cloud deployments, mobile identities, hybrid work, machine identity, electronic signatures, encryption, and more. With more than 2,800 colleagues, a network of global partners, and customers in over 150 countries