At Freddie Mac, you will do important work to build a better housing finance system and you'll be part of a team helping to make homeownership and rental housing more accessible and affordable across the nation.
Position Overview:
The Information Security group at Freddie Mac has an exciting opportunity for someone who is interested in bringing their passion, dedication, and analytical experience to support the Identity & Access Management (IAM) group. The Authentication Engineer will have a comprehensive understanding of the IAM standards, industry-wide best practices, and tools.
The individual will be responsible for day-to-day operational activities on PING platform and working closely with business partners to onboard applications on the IAM platform and maintain appropriates process and governance to manage and proactively identify issues, partner with the
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technology, business stakeholders on IAM agendas and collaborate with multiple teams on remediation, standardization, automation.
Our Impact:
We partner across several business lines to support enterprise Single Sign-On, User Session Management, Multifactor (Adaptive) Authentication, Application onboarding efforts, including Ping configuration management, and end users Web access management needs.
Your Impact:
- As part of IAM - Access Management, you should drive business outcomes through tech solutions, must understand the business objectives (intended outcomes) and must identify feasible solutions that will enable/further those outcomes.
- Collaborate with Enterprise Architecture and Risk & Security groups to ensure new and existing solutions are aligned with enterprise standards.
- Partner with business and IT customers to drive product research, RFP/vendor interview from technical perspective and is responsible for communicating business cases for TAWG/ARB approvals.
- Work with other development leads on design brainstorming and design review to ensure alignment with current authentication patterns, and standards.
- Drive and adopt a culture driven by data - where key performance indicators are gathered from top to bottom and fed to automated tooling to improve system reliability and performance
Qualifications:
- 8+ Years IAM (Web Access Management) experience working large, complex, cross-division or cross-enterprise programs.
- Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science or Information Systems; or equivalent combination of education and relevant experience
- Development experience with understanding processes and building solutions for it (understanding requirements, tool configurations, building connectors, SDLC process / testing, deploying)
- Scripting experience, Python is preferred
- Hands on experience in Identity & Access Management using PING IDENTITY products suite, preferred, but not required
- Knowledge of Java programming with PingFederate and Ping Access API would be an added benefit.
- Good exposure to UI technologies (like Angular, Java script, CSS, Velocity Framework) to enhance UI pages.
- Good exposure to UI technologies (like Angular, Java script, CSS, Velocity Framework) to enhance UI pages.
- Knowledge of Java programming with Ping Federate and Ping Access API would be an added benefit.
Keys to Success in this Role:
- Willingness and excitement to learn new products and tools
- Thinking and acting strategically
- Proactive in identifying existing issues and question the status quo
- Effective communication, ability to convey technology solutions to business, and customer-focused demeanor
Current Freddie Mac employees please apply through the internal career site.
Today, Freddie Mac makes home possible for one in four home borrowers and is one of the largest sources of financing for multifamily housing. Join our smart, creative and dedicated team and you'll do important work for the housing finance system and make a difference in the lives of others.
We are an equal opportunity employer and value diversity and inclusion at our company. We do not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, color, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, age, marital status, veteran status, disability status or any other characteristic protected by applicable law. We will ensure that individuals with differing abilities are provided reasonable accommodation to participate in the job application or interview process, to perform essential job functions, and to receive other benefits and privileges of employment. Please contact us to request accommodation.
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Time-type:Full time
FLSA Status:Exempt
Freddie Mac offers a comprehensive total rewards package to include competitive compensation and market-leading benefit programs. Information on these benefit programs is available on our Careers site.
This position has an annualized market-based salary range of $127,000 - $191,000 and is eligible to participate in the annual incentive program. The final salary offered will generally fall within this range and is dependent on various factors including but not limited to the responsibilities of the position, experience, skill set, internal pay equity and other relevant qualifications of the applicant.