Job Description
Job Title: Principal Software Engineer-IAM
Duration: Contract to Hire
Location: Coppell-HYBRID 3 days
Local to Dallas candidates who can interview in-person
Position Summary:
The Principal Software Engineer is responsible for identification and development enterprise solutions.
Principal Duties:
- Design, architect, and implement secure authentication and authorization solutions using Identity and Access Management (IAM) principles to enable Single Sign-On (SSO) and secure access for internal and external applications, platforms, and APIs.
- Lead the implementation of modern identity standards , including OpenID Connect (OIDC) and OAuth 2.0 , supporting a variety of use cases such as web applications, mobile applications, B2B integrations, and service-to-service communication.
- Build and maintain enterprise-grade integrations with Okta , enabling application onboarding, federation, and secure access to protected resources in alignment with organizational identity standards.
- Partner closely with architecture, platform, security, and product teams to define and evolve standard authentication and authorization patterns, ensuring consistency, scalability, and security across the enterprise.
- Document identity architectures, integration patterns, and operational guidance , enabling development teams and platform teams to efficiently onboard applications and troubleshoot authentication and authorization issues.
- Responsible for one or more applications, working with Business Systems Manager and Business Analyst counterparts on planning and delivering code changes to production, ensuring teams work on schedule
- Provide business and project expertise when collaborating with clients, IT resources, vendors, consultants and other stakeholders to identify the user requirements, assess technologies, recommend and implement technical solutions.
- Participate in estimation process.
- Responsible for source code development; create technical documentation; utilize software configuration, version and quality management processes.
- Responsible for unit testing, performance tuning, defect remediation during testing, and deployment planning
- Participate in Production Support Escalation if necessary for high-severity issues within their application domain
- Can analyze, design and develop complex programming systems independently.
- Chair Agile Team meetings
- Performs related duties as assigned by management.
Education and Experience
- Master’s degree in a technical field + 3 years of work experience or bachelor’s degree in a technical field + 5 years related experience.
- Experience designing, architecting, and implementing secure authentication and authorization solutions using IAM, SSO, OIDC, SAML, Oauth2
- Experience developing software for the US mortgage industry.
Knowledge, Skills, and Abilities
- Adaptive leadership style, capable of leading multi-disciplinary teams with diverse skill sets and experience levels
- Excellent interpersonal, oral, and written communication skills
- Ability to respond quickly to sensitive issues, complex inquiries, or complaints from clients, co-workers and or management
- Strong analytical skills
- Proficiency with:
- Okta integration and configuration
- ASP.Net / MVC / WebApi / C# / .Net 4.0+
- Developing solutions around IAM / OIDC / OAuth2
- Design Patterns
- OOPS
- Web Services
- XML
- Sql Server 2012 and above
- Experience with Windows Services
- Experience in third party integrations.