IAM Engineer

Hybrid/onsite in Newark, NJ 2-3 days per week.

Long term contract position.

Senior IAM Engineer

Are you interested in building capabilities that enable the organization with innovation, speed, agility, scalability, and efficiency? The Global Technology Security Services team takes great pride in our culture where digital transformation is built into our DNA. When you join our organization at Prudential, you will unlock an exciting and impactful career all while growing your skills and advancing your profession at one of the world's leading financial services institutions.

Your Team & Role

As a Senior IAM Platform Engineer working in a Global CIAM Team, you will partner with Product Owners, Tech leads, Software Developers, Software Engineers, and Delivery professionals to provide the integrations of applications and IAM Services into CIAM Platforms mainly ForgeRock. You will be one of the Senior IAM Engineers working with other engineers leading and guiding application integrations and mentoring other engineers on CIAM integrations. In addition to advanced technical expertise and experience you will bring excellent problem solving, communication and teamwork skills, along with Agile ways of working, strong business insight, an inclusive leadership attitude and a continuous learning focus to all that you do.

You are expected to:

Provide guidance and technical expertise integrating Applications into ForgeRock platform. This requires Senior expertise with creating Journeys, Policies, Scripting, and implementation using ForgeRock SDKs.

Senior IAM knowledge and preferably experience working with customer facing applications that require OAuth2, OIDC, SAML, Certificate based Authentication to name a few.

Demonstrated experience working with ForgeRock or other IAM products that are SAAS or Cloud based. Hands on experience with AWS, Azure or GCP desired.

Demonstrated experience working in Cybersecurity organization with a Technical Engineering focus on CIAM/IAM

Collaborate with Product Owners in understanding needs and defining features working with tech leads in defining technical design and other team members to understand the system end-to-end and deliver robust solutions that bring about business impact and support the goals.

Automate unit and integration test cases, solve problems, and add new value with automation

Develop corporate platform standards based on cost, capability, and capacity requirements to drive business value; document solutions to support the adoption of developed solutions.

Bring a strong understanding of relevant and emerging technologies. Uses a coaching style enabling team members and embeds learning and innovation in the day-to-day

Works on complex problems in which analysis of situations or data requires an evaluation of intangible variables.

Uses programming languages including but not limited to Python, Java, Android Mobile, x code, Node, Groovy, Shell/Power Scripting a Plus

Excellent Communication Oral and Written Skills

Preferred Qualifications

Bachelor of Computer Science or Engineering or a minimum of 7+ years of demonstrated experience.

Ability to coach others with minimum guidance and effectively leverages diverse ideas, experiences, thoughts and perspectives to the benefit of the organization.

Experience with working in a Scrum Agile development Team

Knowledge of business concepts tools and processes that are needed for making sound decisions in the context of the company's business

Ability to learn new skills and knowledge on an on-going basis through self-initiative and tackling challenges

Excellent problem solving, communication and collaboration skills

Advanced experience and/or expertise in several of the following;

ForgeRock SAAS or On Prem. This includes ability to install and configure RCS with different types of data stores.

Other IAM Platforms Okta, SailPoint, Ping, a plus

Experience with creating Account Profiles, Authentication and Authorization policies and schemes for users to fit various use case scenarios

Experience working as a Trusted Advisor in a collaborative environment and serving as a Senior IAM expert advising on sometimes Complex Use Cases

DevOps Platform: Experience working with AWS CI/CD Jenkins, Bitbucket, GIT a plus

Programming Languages: Python, Java, Node, Groovy, Shell/Power Shell Scripting a plus

Standards/Specs: OAUTH2/SAML/OIDC/WebAutN Required

Experience with Session Management (Client,Server) Required

Knowledge of Infrastructure fundamentals

Linux / UNIX/Windows Operating Systems

Database Fundamentals: Schemas, Tables, Permissions, SQL

Networking, TCP/IP and other common Communication Protocols: OSI Model, 3 Way Handshake, Stateful vs Stateless, Proxy Firewall

Containers: Docker, Kubernetes

Logging & Monitoring: Dynatrace and Splunk , Change Management, Problem management, industry standard tooling

Test/Quality capabilities & methodologies (functional & nonfunctional) and associated tooling including quality automation

Infrastructure & Cloud Security best practices including DevSecOps

Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC): Development and Design Fundamentals including SDLC and coding standards

Cloud Computing: Understanding and knowledge (of 1 or more): AWS, Azure or GCP

Documentation : Experience creating Architecture Designs, Technical guides, Runbooks, Integration and Design specifications required