Lead CIAM Engineer

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IT - General

About Us

At Transamerica, hard work, innovative thinking, and personal accountability are qualities we honor and reward. We understand the potential of leveraging the talents of a diverse workforce. We embrace an environment where employees enjoy a balance between their careers, families, communities, and personal interests.

Ultimately, we appreciate the uniqueness of a company where talented professionals work collaboratively in a positive environment - one focused on helping people look forward and plan for the best life possible while providing tools and solutions that make it easier to get there.

Who We Are

We believe everyone deserves to live their best life. More than a century ago, we were among the first financial services companies in America to serve everyday people from all walks of life.

Today, we're part of an international holding company, with millions of customers and thousands of employees worldwide. Our insurance, retirement, and investment solutions help people make the most of what's important to them.

We're empowered by a vast agent network covering North America, with diversity to match. Together with our nonprofit research institute and foundation, we tune in, step up, and are a force for good - for our customers and the communities where we live, work, and play. United in our purpose, we help people create the financial freedom to live life on their terms.

What We Do

Transamerica is organized into three distinct businesses. These include
1) World Financial Group, including Transamerica Financial Advisors,
2) Protection Solutions and Savings & Investments, comprised of life insurance, annuities, employee benefits, retirement plans, and Transamerica Investment Solutions, and
3) Financial Assets, which includes legacy blocks of long term care, universal life, and variable and fixed annuities. These are supported by Transamerica Corporate, which includes Finance, People and Places, General Counsel, Risk, Internal Audit, Strategy and Development, and Corporate Affairs, which covers Communications, Brand, and Government and Policy Affairs.

Transamerica employs nearly 7,000 people. It's part of Aegon, an integrated, diversified, international financial services group serving approximately 23.9 million customers worldwide.
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Job Description Summary

The Lead CIAM Engineer will be responsible for consulting with various groups to plan, architect and implement standards-based solutions in the areas of general identity management, directory, and security. Provides administrative support for several infrastructures related to web applications, identity management and the components surrounding these technologies Specifically IBM Security Access Manager and Okta. These include areas such as SharePoint, Web Sphere, IIS, Tomcat, Apache, Epi Server, Proxy Internet Access, Oracle Access Manager, CMS Systems, Federation Services, Monitoring and F5 Content Switches.

Also has responsibilities for Internet security, integration of 3rd party applications, domain name / SSL certificate administration and documentation.

Job Description

Responsibilities

* Direct responsibilities on the operational team for developing and maintaining integrated strategies and solutions, with a focus on Web Access Management services for the Global Aegon environment. Web Access Management services include the following core technologies:
Okta, Ping, IBM ISAM, and Federation Services.

* Identify opportunities for using Web Access Management to leverage single sign on security with an emphasis on cost containment/reduction strategies.

* Provide effective project management and feasibility analysis on potential future projects.

* Support and provide guidance on Web Access Management Systems applications and Integrations.

* Provide documentation highlighting integration, design and SSO features of solutions.

* Provide technical leadership, guidance, and architectural planning for internal/external customer engagements. Assist in automation and building repeatable patterns for consumption.

* Perform day to day operations to maintain SLAs and business functions

* Runs small to large enterprise infrastructure projects from requirements gathering to post-implementation.

* Optimizes the performance and availability of the Web Services environment through monitoring, patching, software tools, and process improvements

* Complies with information security policies

* Solid knowledge of project management methodologies; able to manage project phases or less complex projects

* Provide documentation highlighting integration, design, and features of solutions

Qualifications

* Knowledge and experience in working with IBM Security Access Manager and Okta Auth0

* Experience at delivering technology solutions at an enterprise level.

* Excellent diagnostic and troubleshooting skills, and the ability to excel under pressure

* Developed written and verbal skills, assignment and priority flexibility, and time management skills

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