REMOTE Lead Technical Engineer - Customer Identity Access Management (CIAM)

REMOTE Lead Customer Identity Access & Management (CIAM) role supporting our FinTech client's deployment of Okta to their 1MM+ customer network.

REMOTE Lead CIAM Engineer

• We're looking for a strong engineering leader to be the technical subject matter expert in CIAM integration across the enterprise.
• This Lead Engineer works with product, engineering, security, and operations teams to design, develop, and implement integrated enterprise wide CIAM solutions.
• You will lead a diverse group of engineers, each with their own respective domain knowledge, in producing end to end deliverables achieving commercial outcomes measured against CIAM objectives.

Principal Duties & Responsibilities:

• Collaborate with CIAM Technical Program Manager to understand priorities and deliver highly integrated technical solutions which adhere to the overall IAM strategy.
• Coordinate and plan engineering resources to ensure successful delivery according to CIAM priorities and defined success criteria.
• Facilitate engaging collaboration with cross-functional technology SMEs to design scalable, reliable, resilient, maintainable technical solutions.
• Lead the development of technically complex and highly integrated functionality, including coaching and guiding developers during development cycles, to ensure requirements and design guidelines are being met within defined timelines.
• Articulate technically complex processes to non-technical audiences.
• Accountable for technical outcomes of CIAM solutions.
• Create and maintain technical documentation.
• Provide expert level troubleshooting for supported technologies.

- Experience designing CIAM solution.

- Facilitate engaging collaboration with cross-functional technology SMEs to design scalable, reliable, resilient, maintainable technical solutions.

- Lead the development of technically complex and highly integrated functionality, including coaching and guiding developers during development cycles, to ensure requirements and design guidelines are being met within defined timelines.

- Ability to coordinate/ collaborate with cross functional teams to ensure successful on time delivery of solutions.

- Excellent communicator.

Preferred Education & Experience:

• 5-7+ years of experience in an engineering role focused on CIAM and integration-related work
• Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science or related field, such as Computer Engineering, Computer Forensics, Cyber Security or Information Systems
• Experience and expert knowledge of Identity as a Service and Federation technologies (Okta, ISAM, TFIM, etc.)
• Experience and knowledge of authentication protocols (SAML, SSO, OIDC, etc.)
• Experience and knowledge of identity stores/directories (AD, Oracle LDAP, AD LDS, etc.)
• Experience developing integration, middleware, web services and/or APIs
• Advanced problem-solving skills and the ability to work collaboratively with other departments to resolve complex issues with innovative solutions
• Capable of understanding business requirements and translating to technical documentation for complex processes and applications
• Demonstrated ability to coach and guide developers during development cycles to ensure requirements and design guidelines are being met
• Skilled in testing best practices including test case planning
• Proven ability to communicate (written and verbal) complex technical terms and processes in an easy to understand, non-technical manner
• Able to engage with and establish trust and rapport with all levels of team members
• Capable of managing multiple projects at once and prioritizing duties for a cross-functional engineering team