Identity Management Developer (CEMI)
Cornell University2 months ago
Ithaca, NY, USASenior
Base Salary
$88k - $103k/yr
Responsibilities
- Design, plan, implement, and continuously improve enterprise identity and access management services.
- Develop and support identity applications, middleware, authentication, authorization, and directory services.
- Provide technical leadership for secure, scalable, resilient, and usable identity services.
- Write technical designs, conduct code reviews, manage version-controlled code, and translate business needs into technical specifications.
- Support mission-critical production systems through troubleshooting, incident response, outage response, and availability outside standard business hours when required.
- Identify and implement automation and architectural improvements that enhance reliability, security, or efficiency.
- Collaborate with IT security, infrastructure, application teams, campus stakeholders, vendors, peer institutions, and external partners.
- Explain identity service capabilities, processes, and technical concepts to non-technical stakeholders.
Requirements
- Bachelor’s degree and three to five years of relevant experience, or an equivalent combination of education and experience.
- Demonstrated technical support and application or middleware development experience in a distributed, team-focused computing environment.
- Expertise with one or more of Java, Perl, Python, VB.NET, ReactJS, Ruby, or PHP.
- Approximately one year or more of professional experience developing ReactJS applications and/or Ruby on Rails.
- Required Linux system administration experience; Windows experience is preferred.
- Working to advanced knowledge of identity and access management technologies including directory services, virtual directories, SAML2, OAuth2, LDAP, and Active Directory authorization technologies.
- Experience writing technical design documentation, conducting code reviews, and using version control systems such as Git.
- Experience supporting and managing mission-critical production systems, including troubleshooting and incident response.
- Ability to translate user and business needs into functional requirements and technical specifications and communicate complex IAM concepts clearly to non-technical stakeholders.
- Preferred experience in higher education, research, complex enterprise environments, cloud identity platforms, identity lifecycle management, provisioning, access governance, zero-trust architectures, enterprise application integrations, audits, compliance, DevOps, CI/CD, and infrastructure-as-code.
- Strong facilitation, problem-solving, analytical, reasoning, judgment, collaboration, and customer-service skills.
Benefits
- Two-year term appointment that may be ended or extended based on organizational needs, funding availability, and performance.
- Remote work anywhere within the United States, with periodic travel to Cornell’s Ithaca, New York campus; the university may modify, suspend, or terminate the remote arrangement.
- Comprehensive health care options, generous retirement contributions, wellness programs, and employee discounts.
- Health and personal leave, three weeks of vacation, 13 holidays, winter break, and two additional floating holidays.
- Tuition-free Extramural Study and Employee Degree Program, tuition aid for external education, and Cornell Children’s Tuition Assistance Program.
- No relocation assistance is provided.
About Cornell University
Weill Cornell Medicine is Cornell University’s academic medical center in New York City, founded in 1898 and organized as a nonprofit. It delivers clinical care (in partnership with NewYork-Presbyterian), trains physicians and scientists through its medical and graduate schools, and conducts biomedical research. Its activities are funded by clinical services, tuition, philanthropy, and research grants, and it operates global programs, including a campus in Qatar awarding Cornell medical degrees.