Principal IAM Engineer

Category:

Information Technology

Employment Type:

Direct Hire

Reference:

BH-384558

Title:
Senior IAM Architect and Solution Engineer
Compensation:
$181,000 to 225,000 (depending on experience level)
Type:
Full Time
Industry:
Technology
Location:
Hybrid 3 days a week

Summary:

We have an exciting opportunity for a talented Principle IAM Engineer to join our team. The ideal candidate will possess 10+ years of relevant work experience and have strong expertise in designing and implementing scalable, automated Identity and Access Management (IAM) solutions.

Responsibilities:

• Lead the functional and technical design of business systems, integrating business services and information security.
• Drive industry-specific best practices and standards, ensuring regulatory compliance.
• Coordinate test planning and execution, providing leadership to IAM teams.
• Act as a technology liaison to all IT areas, business partners, and the industry.
• Define and factor in performance, scalability, availability, resiliency, security, maintainability, support, testing, and cost requirements when making IAM technology selections and application design decisions.
• Define approaches for modernizing legacy applications, including migration to public or private cloud infrastructure.
• Own the engineering and operation design practices for the IAM program.
• Collaborate with Infrastructure and Solution Architecture teams to choose efficient hosting environments.
• Focus on industry practices such as loose coupling of IAM platforms, standardization, APIs, reusability, isolation, extensibility, and consistency of solutions while proposing and reviewing architectures.
• Identify and solve for non-functional requirements for platform consumers.
• Ensure solutions adhere to security policies and industry standards.
• Conduct proof of concepts (POCs) for tools as needed.

• Bachelor's degree in computer software or related field, or equivalent experience.
• Minimum of 10+ years' experience in software development and architecture.
• Expertise in IAM platforms and architecture.
• Knowledge of industry-wide IAM workforce and CIAM technology trends and best practices.
• Strong collaboration skills, working with different teams to drive delivery.
• Experience with building and supporting IAM platforms from ground to cloud.
• Strong understanding of IAM interdependencies within an organization.
• Previous experience as the lead architect in designing, developing, and deploying IAM platforms for business-critical applications with a large user base.
• In-depth understanding of IAM platforms using a risk-based approach.
• Expertise in working in large, collaborative teams to achieve organizational goals.
• Hands-on experience with IAM platforms such as PBAC, PAM, Workforce, CIAM, and Machine Identity is a plus.