Senior IAM Developer

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Experience: 9+ yrs

Location: Hyderabad, Telangana, India

Job Type: Full-time

We are looking for an experienced Senior IAM Developer to engineer, enhance, and integrate secure Workforce IAM and Customer Identity and Access Management (CIAM) solutions across enterprise environments. The role focuses on building scalable, resilient, and secure identity platforms that support workforce users, customers, partners, applications, and digital services.

The ideal candidate will have strong hands-on expertise across Okta, Okta Auth0, Okta Access Gateway, Microsoft Entra ID, Conditional Access, and modern authentication protocols, with a strong understanding of Zero Trust and identity security.

Requirements

Key Responsibilities

• Design, develop, and enhance Workforce IAM and CIAM solutions using Okta, Auth0, Okta Access Gateway, and Microsoft Entra ID.
• Build secure authentication and authorization solutions supporting MFA, passwordless authentication, adaptive access, risk-based access, and Zero Trust.
• Design and implement federation and identity integrations using SAML 2.0, OAuth 2.0, OpenID Connect, and SCIM.
• Develop CIAM solutions using Okta Auth0 for customer-facing applications and digital platforms.
• Implement customer identity journeys including sign-up, sign-in, profile management, consent, social identity, progressive profiling, and step-up authentication.
• Design and continuously improve Microsoft Entra ID Conditional Access policies aligned with Zero Trust principles.
• Develop automation using APIs, SDKs, scripting, and configuration-as-code to improve IAM platform reliability and efficiency.
• Support CI/CD pipelines and controlled promotion of IAM, CIAM, and Conditional Access changes across environments.
• Integrate IAM and CIAM capabilities with SaaS, cloud, custom, API-based, and legacy applications.
• Lead technical IAM assessments during application onboarding, migrations, and cloud transformation initiatives.
• Resolve complex federation, authentication, authorization, and access challenges across hybrid and multi-tenant environments.
• Support platform upgrades, feature adoption, technical-debt reduction, and engineering improvements across IAM platforms.
• Implement security controls supporting least privilege, strong authentication, continuous access evaluation, and defence in depth.
• Contribute to security reviews, risk assessments, audits, threat modelling, and regulatory requirements.
• Maintain technical designs, integration standards, engineering guidelines, runbooks, and solution documentation.
• Act as a senior technical mentor for IAM engineers and developers.
• Collaborate with architects, product owners, security teams, and technology vendors to influence IAM roadmaps and solution direction.
• Provide engineering-level guidance during complex IAM incidents, escalations, releases, and technical reviews.

What Makes You a Great Fit

• 9+ years of experience in IAM, CIAM, identity security, or enterprise security engineering.
• Strong hands-on expertise with Okta Workforce IAM, Okta Auth0, Okta Access Gateway, and/or Microsoft Entra ID Conditional Access.
• Deep understanding of Zero Trust architecture, CIAM, authentication, authorization, and identity lifecycle management.
• Strong experience with SAML, OAuth, OpenID Connect, and SCIM.
• Proven experience integrating IAM platforms with enterprise applications, APIs, SaaS platforms, and hybrid environments.
• Experience developing IAM automation using APIs, SDKs, scripting, or programming languages such as Python, Java, .NET, PowerShell, or JavaScript.
• Strong understanding of customer identity patterns, including social identity providers, progressive profiling, step-up authentication, consent, and privacy-aware identity management.
• Experience with cloud-first, API-driven, SaaS, hybrid, and multi-tenant identity architectures.
• Strong understanding of identity security, access governance, least privilege, risk-based authentication, and security controls.
• Excellent troubleshooting, analytical, and problem-solving skills.
• Strong communication skills with the ability to explain complex IAM and CIAM concepts to technical and non-technical stakeholders.
• Ability to work effectively in global, regulated, security-focused environments.
• Strong ownership, accountability, collaboration, and engineering mindset.
• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, Cybersecurity, or a related discipline is preferred.