Specialist, CIAM Engineer

Job Description

Specialist, CIAM Engineer – (Ping one)

The Opportunity

• Based in Hyderabad, join a global healthcare biopharma company and be part of a 130- year legacy of success backed by ethical integrity, forward momentum, and an inspiring mission to achieve new milestones in global healthcare.
• Be part of an organisation driven by digital technology and data-backed approaches that support a diversified portfolio of prescription medicines, vaccines, and animal health products.
• Drive innovation and execution excellence. Be a part of a team with passion for using data, analytics, and insights to drive decision-making, and which creates custom software, allowing us to tackle some of the world's greatest health threats. 

Our Technology Centers focus on creating a space where teams can come together to deliver business solutions that save and improve lives. An integral part of our company's’ IT operating model, Tech Centers are globally distributed locations where each IT division has employees to enable our digital transformation journey and drive business outcomes. These locations, in addition to the other sites, are essential to supporting our business and strategy.

A focused group of leaders in each Tech Center helps to ensure we can manage and improve each location, from investing in growth, success, and well-being of our people, to making sure colleagues from each IT division feel a sense of belonging to managing critical emergencies. And together, we must leverage the strength of our team to collaborate globally to optimize connections and share best practices across the Tech Centers.

Opportunity description

 The Product Analyst for the Data Platform acts as a liaison between business stakeholders and technical teams to ensure that data solutions meet organizational needs. 

This role focuses on gathering requirements, requirements analysis, data analysis, designing data products

Who we are:

We are known organisation, in USA in the United States and Canada. For more than a century, we have been, bringing forward medicines and vaccines for many of the world's most challenging diseases. Today, our company continues to be at the forefront of research to deliver innovative health solutions and advance the prevention and treatment of diseases that threaten people and animals around the world.

What we look for:

We are looking for an engineer who is not afraid of taking ownership and transforming business need to technical solution bringing value to our stakeholders and clients. We seek an experienced engineer who can help us to build new teams and guarantee technical excellence of our CIAM setup developed using the PingOne (cloud) platform from design to operations.

You will be responsible for the following:

As an experienced PingOne CIAM Engineer, we will be relying on you to  lead our identity and access management initiatives. In this role, you will be responsible for the co-design, implementation, and management of our customer facing Ping solutions, ensuring secure and seamless access to applications and resources across the organization.

Expected experience and skills:

• Experience in CIAM/Identity & Access Management or related software engineering roles.
• Hands-on experience with Ping Identity products (PingOne DaVinci, PingOne, PingOne Advanced Services, PingFederate, Ping Directory, Ping Access).
• Demonstrable experience in developing PingOne DaVinci workflows, including knowledge of DaVinci node types.
• Proficiency in HTML, CSS and JavaScript for customizing authentication/consent pages and workflow scripts.
• Strong understanding of SSO standards and protocols: OpenID Connect (OIDC), OAuth2, SAML, and WS-Fed.
• Experience designing and implementing MFA/2‑factor authentication solutions and integrations.
• Practical experience securing APIs and web services (token issuance/validation, introspection, revocation, scopes).
• Experience integrating CIAM with directories (LDAP, Active Directory, PingDirectory).
• Hands-on experience with public cloud deployments.
• Familiarity with CI/CD automation tools and pipeline integration for identity platform deployments.
• Strong scripting/programming skills (examples: JavaScript, Python, Bash, Java).
• Knowledge of web access management, policy servers and policy enforcement (PingFederate Policy Server or equivalent).
• Experience with onboarding, migration and hyper care activities for application CIAM integration.
• Strong troubleshooting and analytical skills for diagnosing SSO, token and directory issues.
• Good understanding of security, compliance and controls relevant to customer identity (e.g., GDPR, PCI considerations where applicable).
• Proven ability to coach/mentor junior engineers and work in cross-functional teams.
• Familiarity with API gateways and related tooling (e.g., Kong, Apigee) and WAF concepts is a plus.

• Demonstrated ability to install, integrate and deploy PingOne / ForgeRock.
• Communication – Strong communication skills are a must – the ability to communicate with the teams, stakeholders on all aspects of the product and implementation at a technical and functional level.
• The ability to collaborate and create open working relationships with internal and external teams, vendors, stakeholders, and product owners.
• Certifications in Ping Identity, ForgeRock, AWS or identity/security disciplines are desirable.

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Required Skills:

Business Continuity, CI/CD, Compliance Strategies, Consumer Markets, Cost Efficiency, Cost Management, Data Engineering, Data Visualization, Design Applications, Global Rollouts, Maintenance Troubleshooting, Organizational Sustainability, Regulatory Compliance Consulting, Software Configurations, Software Development, Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC), Solution Architecture, Strategic Initiative, Strategic Policy, System Designs, System Integration, Testing

Preferred Skills:

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Employee Status:

Regular

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Hybrid

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Job Posting End Date:

04/27/2026

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