Job Description
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 organization driven by digital technology and data-backed approaches that supports a diversified portfolio of prescription medicines, vaccines, and animal health products.
Drive innovation and execution excellence. Be the leaders who have a passion for using data, analytics, and insights to drive decision-making, which will allow 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 serve our company purpose to save and improve lives. An integral part of our company 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 in our global organization that partners across the entire company. And together, we must leverage the strength of our team to collaborate globally to optimize connections and share best practices across the Tech Centers.
Role Overview
Working as a Senior Manager, PingFederate Engineer, you can acquire and hone valuable skills in SSO-development including both authentication and authorization, data integration, and team management.
Drive innovation and execution excellence. Be one of the leaders who have a passion for using data, analytics, and insights to drive decision-making, which will allow us to tackle some of the world's greatest health threats.
Expected experience and skills:
Experience on the Public Cloud with the Ping Identity product stack (Ping Federate, Ping Access, Ping Authorize) and Transmit Security / ForgeRock products.
Expertise in application, data and infrastructure architecture disciplines.
Knowledge of industry-wide technology trends and best practices.
Keen understanding of financial control and budget management.
Ability to work in large, collaborative teams to achieve organizational goals, and passionate about building an innovative culture.
Formal training or certification on software engineering concepts and 8 to 10 years of minimum experience.
PingFederate/PingAccess or similar experience with other Web Access Management solutions.
Strong understanding of OpenID Connect, OAuth, and SAML protocols.
Strong understanding of how to protect APIs and Web Services.
Scripting/programming skills.
Good understanding of CI/CD automation tools.
Hands on experience with UNIX and Windows environments.
Ability to coach/mentor junior engineers.
Ability to work in highly collaborative and cross functional team.
Demonstrate a strong understanding of PingOne / ForgeRock platform, tools, and capabilities.
Strong understanding of authentication technologies: SAML, OpenID connect, OAuth/OIDC, WS-FED authentication as well as other authentication methods.
Public Cloud AWS
Strong working knowledge of PingFederate Policy Server, and policy enforcement
Strong understanding of access management, federated identity, 2-factor solutions, MFA, and LDAP Directories.
Demonstrate deployment capabilities of PingOne / ForgeRock tools across diverse environments.
Provide hyper care and transitional support for applications onboarding and migration activities.
Configure Ping Identity Federation and other related components.
Strong understanding of business process, internal controls, risk management, IT controls and standards.
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.
Strong analytical skills
The ability to collaborate and create open working relationships with internal and external teams, vendors, stakeholders, and product owners.
Demonstrated leadership experience.
Our technology teams operate as business partners, proposing ideas and innovative solutions that enable new organizational capabilities. We collaborate internationally to deliver services and solutions that help everyone be more productive and enable innovation.
Who we are:
We are known as Merck & Co., Inc., Rahway, New Jersey, USA in the United States and Canada and MSD everywhere else. For more than a century, we have been inventing for life, 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:
Imagine getting up in the morning for a job as important as helping to save and improve lives around the world. Here, you have that opportunity. You can put your empathy, creativity, digital mastery, or scientific genius to work in collaboration with a diverse group of colleagues who pursue and bring hope to countless people who are battling some of the most challenging diseases of our time. Our team is constantly evolving, so if you are among the intellectually curious, join us—and start making your impact today.
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