IAM & Web Security Consultant

CIAM & Web Security SME (Auth. systems)

Location: Boston MA

Duration: Long-term

Day 1 onsite

Position Summary:

The Senior Software Engineer is a technical leader responsible for designing developing and maintaining secure high-performance software systems. This role combines hands-on development with architectural guidance mentorship and operational excellence. The engineer will drive technical initiatives shape CIAM/AuthN/AuthZ systems and collaborate across teams to deliver scalable resilient solutions aligned with long-term business strategy.

Must-Have Requirements

1. Technical Mastery: Extensive experience in designing developing and maintaining scalable server-side applications using Java (Spring Boot) Python and modern frameworks.
2. Cloud Architecture: Proven expertise in building deploying and managing cloud-native applications on Azure (APIM Gateway AKS Functions App Service Observability Key Vault).
3. Security Protocols: Deep understanding of security best practices including SAML OAuth2 OIDC JWT SSO MTLS WAF identity management and session management.
4. DevOps & CI/CD: Hands-on experience with CI/CD pipelines and tools (Azure DevOps Jenkins Docker Kubernetes & ArgoCD).
5. IAM Expertise: Significant background in IAM including single sign-on PKI PSD2 SCA and possession-based authentication. Experience with Webseal Okta PingIdentity Microsoft EntraID or AWS IAM. Ability to troubleshoot CIAM issues.
6. Database Skills: Strong proficiency in identity and demographic data stores - SQL (SQL Server PostgreSQL MySQL) and NoSQL (MongoDB Redis Snowflake) databases.
7. Performance Optimization: Demonstrated ability to tune and optimize application performance in distributed cloud environments; familiarity with monitoring tools like newRelic or Dynatrace.
8. Collaboration: Proven track record of working with cross-functional teams (infrastructure securityOps product architects DevOps security QA).
9. Mentorship: Experience leading code reviews technical mentorship and team knowledge sharing.

Should-Have Requirements

• API Design: Experience architecting and building RESTful and GraphQL APIs ensuring security performance and efficiency.
• Event-Driven Systems: Ability to design and implement event-driven and distributed systems for large-scale data processing and real-time workflows.
• ETL & Data Modeling: Experience writing and optimizing SQL queries and ETL pipelines for analytics support.
• Infrastructure as Code: Familiarity with OpenTofu/Terraform and infrastructure automation practices.
• Testing Methodologies: Champion BDD/TDD methodologies for system reliability and maintainability.
• Production Monitoring: Proactive monitoring of production systems for high availability and fast incident resolution.
• Security assessment: Participate in threat modeling security assessments and code reviews to identify and remediate potential security vulnerabilities. Auditing needs working with security teams and transform it to application requirements.

General Requirements

• Education: Bachelors or Masters degree in Computer Science Engineering or related field.
• Experience: 10 years in software development with at least 4 years in a senior or lead engineering role.
• Programming Languages: Proficiency in Java Javascript / and/or C.
• Secure SDLC Knowledge: Deep understanding of the systems integration software development lifecycle and agile methodologies.
• Communication: Excellent written and verbal communication skills; ability to engage with business stakeholders.

Recommended Qualifications

1. Leadership: Experience influencing technical direction mentoring junior engineers and driving engineering standards.
2. Strategic Thinking: Ability to balance immediate business needs with long-term technical scalability and innovation.
3. Industry Certifications: Relevant certifications in identity management cloud security or software architecture (e.g. Azure Solutions Architect CISSP CIAM and privacy industry certifications).
4. Business Acumen: Understanding of business value cost implications and strategic impact of technical decisions.
5. Continuous Learning: Commitment to staying current with technology trends best practices and emerging tools.

Tekshapers is an equal opportunity employer and will consider all applications without regards to race sex age color religion national origin veteran status disability sexual orientation gender identity genetic information or any characteristic protected by law.