Senior ICAM Engineer

This position is full time, on site in either Charleston, SC or Washington, DC metro area. Candidates must live in either of those areas as position is full time on site. This position requires the candidate have an Active Top Secret/Sensitive Compartmented Information (TS/SCI) clearance with the ability to obtain a Counterintelligence (CI) Polygraph.

Accelera Solutions is seeking an Identity, Credential, and Access Management (ICAM) Engineer to develop, integrate, and maintain enterprise identity services supporting mission applications and secure information sharing. This role combines identity federation, directory integration, account provisioning, and application development within Department of Defense and Intelligence Community environments.

The engineer will work with software developers, infrastructure engineers, and security personnel to connect identity services with mission systems. Candidates should understand how authentication, identity attributes, and authorization decisions work across an enterprise and be able to troubleshoot the configurations, interfaces, and application code that support those functions.

What You’ll Do:

* Implement and integrate enterprise ICAM services with mission applications, directories, and authoritative identity and attribute sources.
* Develop and maintain Application Programming Interfaces (APIs) and service integrations that provide identity information and support access control decisions.
* Configure and troubleshoot identity federation, single sign-on, and application authentication using OpenID Connect (OIDC) and other applicable standards.
* Integrate identity platforms with Active Directory, enterprise directories, and personnel and training systems.
* Automate account and group provisioning, updates, and deprovisioning while maintaining accurate identity attributes and access entitlements.
* Support migration from legacy identity platforms to modern services, preserving configurations, identity mappings, provisioning behavior, and application functionality.
* Implement and maintain virtual directory services, identity data aggregation, synchronization, and replication.
* Work with application developers to resolve authentication failures, token and claim mapping issues, and authorization inconsistencies.
* Support identity federation across networks and mission partners, applying approved data-sharing restrictions and cross-domain transfer processes.
* Protect identity data through encryption, appropriate access controls, and secure service communications.
* Support identity services in environments with intermittent or limited connectivity, including approved caching and synchronization of identity and authorization information.
* Use automation and configuration management to establish consistent identity service deployments across environments.
* Maintain integration documentation, configuration baselines, test procedures, and operational guidance.

Required Qualifications:

* Active Top Secret/Sensitive Compartmented Information (TS/SCI) clearance with the ability to obtain a Counterintelligence (CI) Polygraph.
* Prior experience supporting the Intelligence Community.
* Bachelor’s degree in Cybersecurity, Computer, Electrical, or Electronics Engineering, or Mathematics with a concentration in computer science or equivalent
* 10+ years of directly relevant experience
* Professional experience implementing, integrating, or operating enterprise identity and access management services.
* Hands-on experience with identity federation, application authentication, and OIDC.
* Experience integrating applications with identity providers, including configuring claims, identity attributes, and access mappings.
* Experience with Active Directory and Lightweight…