As one of the largest independent technology companies in Atlantic Canada, Mariner has a team of over 200 IT, Software Professionals and Management Consultants working with clients both regionally and across the globe. With extensive capabilities in the areas of analytics, automation software, information security, change management and IT consulting, Mariner has been delivering innovative solutions with a strong emphasis on productivity and customer experience since 2003.

Major Responsibilities:

The Delivery Architect is a solution-focused technical professional responsible for architecting, designing, and implementing CA Single Sign-On (formerly SiteMinder) solutions based on the customer business and technical requirements. The Delivery Architect is expected to support the solution throughout all stages of the solution lifecycle: from initial investigation to the deployment of the solution in production and eventually post-production enhancement. The Delivery Architect should have hands on implementation experience.

• Design and implement enterprise-wide access management and single sign-on infrastructure built on CA Single Sign-On, including proxy and federation components

• Work closely with application development teams to design and implement coarse- and fine-granted access control on a Java portal platform

• Design and deploy federations with internal systems and external organizations, provide assistance to IT staff where necessary

• Administer and support production CA Single Sign-On infrastructure components including policy servers, proxies, databases, and directories.

• Establish and document standards for authentication, authorization, federation, and web services security as related to the Single Sign-On environment.

• Where necessary, write custom code to integrate a particular application with Single Sign-On.

• Work closely with Identity Management team to ensure proper provisioning of Single Sign-On users.

• Assist with trouble shooting and incident response.

• Demonstrated experience in Federated Identities is mandatory.

• 10+ years’ experience implementing security in a large-scale system integration projects through the entire software development life cycle. 

• Extensive Java and other programming language development experience.

• Extensive hands-on Single Sign-On experience, particularly in a portal environment.

• Knowledge and experience in developing and implementing Federated Identity Management solutions.

• Experienced with Federated identity and Web Services security concepts.

• Experience in other Identity Management products is a plus. Single Sign-On architecture experience with products such as Oracle Access Manager and Sun Access Manager (OpenSSO) is an asset.

• Knowledge of SOA-based security is an asset.

• Expertise with application servers such as WebSphere. Weblogic,  and JBOSS.

• Experience implementing message flows utilizing HTTP transports.

• Knowledge and experience in WS standards including WS-Security.

• Experienced with plug ins for CA SSO such as active policies and active responses.

• Experience implementing messages (XML, XSD, XSL, and XSLT) and WebServices (WSDL, SOAP, and UDDI).

• Expertise in various security fields including access control, authorization, identification and authentication, public key infrastructure, network, and enterprise security architecture is required.

• Experience developing complex multi-dimensional enterprise architectures and ability to understand and design solutions that consider integration of heterogeneous environments and systems is essential.

• Demonstrate experience applying security risk assessment methodology to system development, including threat model development, vulnerability assessments, and security risk analysis.

• Experience with detailed requirements gathering and documentation, writing approach documents, whitepapers, and design documents.

• Experience working with individuals at all levels of a large organization.

• Bachelor’s degree in Engineering, Computer Science is preferred.

Why Mariner Partners?

We believe in making a positive impact in the communities where we live and work – our team is located in major cities all across Canada, throughout the US and internationally. We are proud to be headquartered here, and are passionate about growing a strong technology sector here in Atlantic Canada and beyond. We offer competitive compensation, benefits packages and training and development.

We are proud to have been recognized by Progress magazine as one of Atlantic Canada’s TOP 101 companies, ranking #46 on 2015’s list, up from #62 in 2014. 

We recognize that empowered employees are more innovative, more efficient, deliver better customer service and can flat out-perform conventional organizations. Our people have built products for national deployments at the world’s largest TV and Internet companies and leading real estate, financial and government organizations. 

We are looking for passionate IT Business Analyst professionals who love solving problems for customers and who want to grow their careers.

Join our growing team!