IAM Architect – PingOne Workforce Cloud
IAM Architect – PingOne Workforce Cloud W2 Only role. Candidates must be authorized to work in the United States. Sponsorship is not available for this position. Role Overview Seeking a hands-on Senior SSO Architect & Team Lead to lead the SSO engineering team, maintain a highly available enterprise Ping Identity environment, and drive migration to PingOne Workforce Cloud. The role focuses on enterprise authentication, identity orchestration, Zero Trust security, and cloud automation for 70,000+ corporate and clinical users.
Key Responsibilities
Lead and mentor the SSO engineering team and collaborate with Enterprise Architecture and Security teams. Maintain high availability of PingFederate, PingDirectory, PingID, and enterprise federation services. Lead migration to PingOne Workforce Cloud and modernize authentication architecture. Design and manage application integrations using SAML 2.0, OAuth 2.0, OIDC, JWT, and SCIM. Build identity orchestration workflows using PingOne DaVinci, adaptive MFA, and passwordless authentication. Support authorization modernization, including PingAuthorize and replacement of legacy Oracle Entitlement Server (OES). Collaborate on Microsoft 365 federation, Entra ID, Conditional Access, and hybrid identity. Automate identity infrastructure using Google Cloud Platform, Terraform, GKE, Docker, CI/CD, and scripting. Govern certificate/key lifecycle, session policies, and secure authentication standards. Required Qualifications 10+ years of hands-on IAM and enterprise SSO engineering experience. 4+ years of technical leadership and team mentoring experience. Deep expertise in PingFederate, PingID, PingDirectory, PingCentral, PingOne Workforce Cloud, PingOne Customer (CIAM), and PingOne DaVinci. Strong knowledge of SAML, OAuth 2.0, OIDC, JWT, SCIM, PKCE, and modern authentication flows. Understanding of authorization frameworks, ABAC/PBAC, and PingAuthorize. Familiarity with Microsoft 365 federation, Entra ID, Conditional Access, Intune, and PRT. Hands-on Google Cloud Platform, Terraform, Kubernetes/GKE, Docker, CI/CD, and Python, PowerShell, or Bash. Experience supporting mission-critical, highly available environments; healthcare/HIPAA experience preferred. Strong architecture governance, communication, and problem-solving skills. Certifications Ping Identity Professional/Architect Microsoft SC-300 or SC-100 Google Cloud DevOps Engineer or Cloud Security Engineer CISSP or CIAM