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Senior Engineer, IAM Platform Engineering

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Carrollton, TX
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Designs, engineers, and enhances enterprise IAM platforms, directory services, and identity automation. Builds API-driven integrations and workflows for provisioning, access governance, PAM, authentication, and compliance. Uses AI, analytics, and identity telemetry to improve threat detection, entitlement management, and operational efficiency. Partners with cybersecurity, cloud, infrastructure, application, and architecture teams on SSO, MFA, IGA, PAM, and Zero Trust initiatives. Leads platform validation, documentation, technology evaluation, and engineering mentorship.
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Designs, engineers, and continuously enhances enterprise Identity and Access Management (IAM) platforms with a strong emphasis on automation, orchestration, and AI-enabled identity services. Develops scalable identity architectures that improve security, operational efficiency, user experience across workforce, and privileged access environments. Leverages automation frameworks, APIs, and AI-driven capabilities to streamline identity lifecycle management, access governance, authentication services, and operational support processes. Partners with cybersecurity, infrastructure, cloud, and application teams to deliver modern IAM solutions that support Zero Trust initiatives, digital transformation programs, and evolving business requirements.
Job Description
  • Designs, implements, and maintains enterprise-scale IAM platforms and directory services to ensure secure, highly available, and scalable authentication and authorization capabilities across the organization.
  • Develops and deploys automation solutions that streamline identity lifecycle processes, including user provisioning, deprovisioning, access requests, access reviews, privileged access onboarding, and compliance reporting.
  • Creates and supports API-driven integrations, identity orchestration workflows, and automated provisioning solutions to securely connect business applications, cloud services, and enterprise identity platforms.
  • Leverages AI-powered tools, analytics platforms, and intelligent automation capabilities to improve access governance, identity threat detection, role mining, entitlement management, and operational efficiency.
  • Analyzes identity telemetry, authentication logs, access patterns, and platform performance metrics to proactively identify security risks, optimize service delivery, and improve user experiences.
  • Designs and documents technical architectures, integration standards, automation frameworks, and operational runbooks that promote consistency, scalability, and supportability across the IAM ecosystem.
  • Collaborates with security, cloud, infrastructure, application development, and enterprise architecture teams to implement modern identity solutions supporting Single Sign-On (SSO), Multi-Factor Authentication (MFA), Privileged Access Management (PAM), Identity Governance and Administration (IGA), and Zero Trust initiatives.
  • Validates IAM platform upgrades, automation enhancements, and security controls in development and test environments to ensure stability, performance, and regulatory compliance prior to production deployment.
  • Evaluates emerging IAM, automation, AI, and cybersecurity technologies to identify opportunities for innovation, operational improvement, and risk reduction.
  • Provides technical leadership and mentorship to engineering teams on IAM best practices, automation strategies, AI adoption, and modern identity architecture patterns.

Required Qualifications
  • Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, Cybersecurity, Software Engineering, Data Science, or a related field, or equivalent experience.
  • 4+ years of experience in Identity and Access Management (IAM), platform engineering, software development, cybersecurity engineering, cloud engineering, or a related technical field.
  • Hands-on experience building IAM automation solutions using scripting, APIs, workflow orchestration tools, or Infrastructure-as-Code technologies.
  • Experience with enterprise IAM platforms such as SailPoint, Saviynt, Okta, Microsoft Entra ID, CyberArk, Ping Identity, ForgeRock, BeyondTrust, or similar technologies.
  • Experience developing solutions using PowerShell, Python, JavaScript, Terraform, REST APIs, or comparable automation technologies.
  • Strong understanding of identity standards and protocols including OAuth 2.0, OpenID Connect (OIDC), SAML, SCIM, LDAP, and JWT.
  • Experience supporting Identity Governance (IGA), Access Management, Privileged Access Management (PAM), Single Sign-On (SSO), and Multi-Factor Authentication (MFA) solutions.

Preferred Qualifications
  • Experience leveraging AI, machine learning, generative AI, copilots, or intelligent automation platforms to improve IAM operations, identity governance, access analytics, or threat detection capabilities.
  • Experience implementing Identity Threat Detection and Response (ITDR), User and Entity Behavior Analytics (UEBA), or AI-powered security monitoring solutions.
  • Familiarity with cloud platforms including Microsoft Azure, AWS, or Google Cloud.
  • Industry certifications such as CISSP, Security+, Microsoft Identity and Access Administrator, SailPoint, Saviynt, CyberArk, Okta, Azure, AWS, or related certifications.
  • Experience working within Agile, DevOps, or DevSecOps environments.

What Cencora offers
We provide compensation, benefits, and resources that enable a highly inclusive culture and support our team members' ability to live with purpose every day. In addition to traditional offerings like medical, dental, and vision care, we also provide a comprehensive suite of benefits that focus on the physical, emotional, financial, and social aspects of wellness. This encompasses support for working families, which may include backup dependent care, adoption assistance, infertility coverage, family building support, behavioral health solutions, paid parental leave, and paid caregiver leave. To encourage your personal growth, we also offer a variety of training programs, professional development resources, and opportunities to participate in mentorship programs, employee resource groups, volunteer activities, and much more. For details, visit https://www.virtualfairhub.com/cencora
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Cencora is committed to providing equal employment opportunity without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, genetic information, national origin, age, disability, veteran status or membership in any other class protected by federal, state or local law.
The company's continued success depends on the full and effective utilization of qualified individuals. Therefore, harassment is prohibited and all matters related to recruiting, training, compensation, benefits, promotions and transfers comply with equal opportunity principles and are non-discriminatory.
Cencora is committed to providing reasonable accommodations to individuals with disabilities during the employment process which are consistent with legal requirements. If you wish to request an accommodation while seeking employment, please call 888.692.2272 or email [email protected]. We will make accommodation determinations on a request-by-request basis. Messages and emails regarding anything other than accommodations requests will not be returned
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