**ForgeRock Engineer** **Responsibilities:** + Responsible for providing thought leadership and subject matter expertise in Identity and Access Management (IAM). + Understand organizational business requirements to produce IAM solutions that meet current and future business needs. + Facilitate discussions with internal customers and other stakeholders in large workshops, small groups or one-on-one sessions while driving adoption of best practices in IAM, across a range of applications and other IT resources. + Ability to architect planning and design for new or upgrade IAM infrastructure projects, articulating the general benefits of an IAM system. + Assess the current state of client IAM infrastructure to identify opportunities for improvement. Establish an IAM service improvement plan with particular focus on resource optimization and operational efficiency and effectiveness. + Provide security design, consultancy, and assessment services while introducing improvements in technical security standards and security implementation designs/patterns. + Develop / Implement a reference IAM architecture and ensure project and solutions delivery to that architecture. + Develop Identity & Access Management Strategies to include roadmap planning and design. (leveraging as needed: Role-based Access Control (RBAC), Federation, Single Sign-on, Multi-factor Authentication, Segregation of Duties, and Reporting & Compliance) for on-prem, SaaS and Azure public cloud-based applications. + Partner with IAM build team to ensure project planning and requirements are clearly defined and aligned for an appropriate implementation of scalable and agile IAM solutions. + Work closely with Enterprise Architecture, Business Process Partners, and Transformation Management Office to ensure alignment of plans with what is being delivered. **Required Skills/Qualifications:** + Minimum of a bachelor's degree in engineering or information systems or related field of study required. + 10 or more years of experience in a diversified IT or information security role. + Strong knowledge and proven experience on ForgeRock (Open IM, Open AM and and OpenDJ). + Strong implementation knowledge using SAML, OAuth 2.0, OpenID Connect, etc. + Hands-on experience in development / integration background in ForgeRock tools such as Open AM, and Open IDM. + Experience with Open IDM development: User provisioning, profile synchronization, and workflow. + Good experience in creating policies as per requirements on Open AM. + Technical experience with OpenSSO. + OpenID Development experience. + Should have knowledge of AD, LDAP, Database integration. + Good communication skills, analytical skills, business analysis and customer relationship management. + Broad understanding of information security tenets and security architecture principles. + Experience developing strategies and roadmaps in line with best practices and proven frameworks is required. + Strong knowledge and understanding of current and emerging cyber security threats, vulnerabilities, trends and mitigations ranging across the technologies required to provide layered defense is required. + ForgeRock Identity Management Certification. + ForgeRock Access Management Certification. + Demonstrated ability to identify IAM requirements and validate implementation of specified requirements into a robust architecture that sufficiently protects valuable digital resources. Cognizant is an equal opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to sex, gender identity, sexual orientation, race, color, religion, national origin, disability, protected Veteran status, age, or any other characteristic protected by law.