[Hiring] Platform Architect @Entrust

Role Description

The Platform Architect is accountable for maintaining architectural coherence across the Entrust Agentic Trust Layer and every Line of Business capability that supplies into it, ensuring independent teams and product lines operate within a common architecture and governance framework.

Entrust’s operating doctrine for the Agentic Trust Layer is to complement the enterprise agentic control plane with trusted identity, security, evidence, and assurance capabilities. Our strategy is to architect a solution that brings together decades of Entrust expertise across both product and non-product domains, while actively shaping current and emerging industry standards to ensure they are fit for purpose for the agentic enterprise.

This role is accountable for defining and governing the four-plane reference architecture, Identity, Authority, Execution, and Assurance, as well as the composition model, trust-plane architecture, and dependency contracts that enable multiple product teams to operate as a unified, integrated trust layer.

The mandate is to ensure cryptographic assurance, interoperability, scalability, and business agility across the platform while maintaining a cohesive architecture and operating model.

The role also serves as a key industry representative, partnering with standards bodies and ecosystem stakeholders to help shape emerging standards for the agentic enterprise, with particular emphasis on agentic trust and digital identity.

This role partners closely with executive leadership, product teams, engineering, security, and business stakeholders to ensure technology investments deliver measurable business value while maintaining scalability, security, and operational excellence.

Key Responsibilities

• Define and maintain the architecture strategy and roadmap for the four planes, and hold the reference architecture as the single normative source across product lines.
• Establish architectural principles, standards, patterns, and governance processes, including the Boundary Review process.
• Own the Line of Business dependency contracts: interface definitions, service levels, versioning commitments, and internal transfer-pricing terms for each supplying primitive.
• Ensure technology investments align with business objectives and strategic priorities.
• Serve as design authority and technical gate on all Entrust Agentic Trust Layer build tracks.
• Own the technical specification of the Agent Passport.
• Own the Permission Slip framework.
• Own the Evidence Ledger and Replay architecture.
• Own the Policy Engine, MCP Gateway, and Just-in-Time Authorization architecture.
• Own the Continuous Authentication Engine architecture.
• Own Content Provenance architecture.
• Establish frameworks for responsible AI, model governance, explainability, and ethical use.
• Partner with business leaders to identify and prioritize high-value agentic use cases.
• Ensure Entrust Agentic Trust Layer solutions are secure, compliant, scalable, and aligned with industry regulations.
• Champion innovation through the evaluation and adoption of emerging technologies.
• Develop technology roadmaps supporting the agentic trust layer and competitive advantage.
• Guide investment decisions related to cloud platforms and cryptographic infrastructure.
• Evaluate build-versus-buy decisions for Entrust Agentic Trust Layer capabilities.
• Partner with cybersecurity teams to ensure architecture aligns with security and compliance requirements.
• Chair the Architecture Review Board and the Boundary Review forum.
• Ensure Entrust Agentic Trust Layer solutions comply with privacy, legal, regulatory, and ethical standards.
• Manage technology risks and provide recommendations to executive leadership.
• Serve as a trusted advisor to executive leadership on technology strategy and emerging trends.
• Influence senior stakeholders across business and technology teams.
• Lead, mentor, and develop architects and senior technology professionals.
• Foster a culture of innovation, collaboration, continuous learning, and operational excellence.
• Represent Entrust in the standards and governance bodies that will define agentic trust.
• Serve as the senior technical voice in analyst engagements and strategic customer reviews.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, Engineering, or a related field.
• 15+ years of progressive technology leadership experience.
• 7+ years leading enterprise architecture programs or platform and security architecture for identity, cryptography, or trust infrastructure products.
• Deep, applied expertise in cryptography and public key infrastructure.
• Working expertise in workload identity and modern delegated authorization.
• Demonstrated experience designing tamper-evident or append-only verifiable systems.
• Deep expertise in cloud platforms, including confidential computing.
• Experience shipping products under third-party assurance regimes.
• Proven ability to influence executive stakeholders and drive strategic decisions.
• Experience leading cross-functional teams in complex global organizations.

Preferred Qualifications

• Master's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, Data Science, Business, or related field.
• Experience deploying Generative AI and Large Language Model (LLM) solutions at enterprise scale.
• Knowledge of agentic AI architectures and AI orchestration frameworks.
• Familiarity with the competitive control-plane landscape.
• AI, cloud, cybersecurity, or enterprise architecture certifications.
• Experience in highly regulated industries, particularly financial services and insurance.
• Contribution or maintainer standing in open trust-infrastructure communities.

Benefits

• Career Growth: Invested in your professional journey with learning-forward initiatives.
• Flexibility: Remote, hybrid, or on-site options available.
• Collaboration: A culture that values sharing ideas and working together.
• Comprehensive health and well-being programs including medical, vision, and dental.
• Generous 401(k) matching contribution.
• Life and disability insurance, mental health coaching, and virtual fitness programs.
• Paid personal time off plus 12 paid holidays, parental leave, and education reimbursement.

Company Description

At Entrust, we’re shaping the future of identity-centric security solutions. We empower careers, foster collaboration, and build solutions that help keep the world moving safely.