Identity & Access Management (IAM) Software Engineer/Analyst

State Farm•Dunwoody, GA

15h•Hybrid

About The Position

The Identity and Access Management product suite is looking for an Identity & Access Control Analyst with a software development background to be a member of the State Farm’s Authorization Management team. The product team provides business areas with the tooling, solutions, and oversight required to define and maintain the principle of least privilege. This position will enable the selected team member to work across the enterprise to design and develop solutions which support the management of accesses and entitlements for all of State Farm’s human and non-human identities. This is a HYBRID role, requiring qualified candidates to spend time working from home and some time working in the office. Hub locations include Dunwoody, GA; Richardson, TX; Tempe, AZ; or Bloomington, IL. Applicants are required to be eligible to lawfully work in the U.S. immediately; the employer will not sponsor applicants for U.S. work authorization.

Requirements

Prior software development experience
Cloud Platform Experience: AWS, Azure, GCP
Application development tools (editors, compilers)
Continuous Integrations/Continuous Delivery pipelines, automation tools
Framework/Library: REACT, Angular
Spring Framework: Spring, Spring Boot
Source Code Management (Git, GitLab)
Understanding of software design patterns, testing techniques, and software security scanning
Build and maintain applications and tools using scripting languages (example: PERL, Python, PowerShell, Bash, NodeJS, JavaScript, TypeScript).
Strong communication skills with the ability to relay complex technical knowledge to multiple audiences
API Development/Testing Tools: Bruno, Insomnia
Credential Management: HashiCorp Vault, AWS Secrets Manager
Integrated Development Environment: Visual Studio, Intellij IDEA, etc.
Must apply discretion and appropriate security measures when handling confidential and sensitive information

Nice To Haves

Solid understanding of security best practices.
Ability to integrate multiple technologies through technical design.
Strong thought leader with ability to think analytically and work with a team to solve problems.
Experience developing and maintaining operational procedure documentation and architecture diagrams, roadmaps, industry research summaries, etc.
Ability to foster innovation, encourage diversity of thought, & incorporate new ideas.
Ability to deploy applications/functions to public cloud platforms through industry tools utilized by State Farm. (e.g., Terraform, Git, etc.)
Understanding of security principles, best practices, and compliance regulations including knowledge of industry standards like ISO 27001, NIST, and NYCRR 500

Responsibilities

Engage in the development of automation and self-service strategies and tooling options.
Develop, automate, and support State Farm’s identity and access management tools.
Develop, support, and test end-to-end information security solutions, controls, tools, techniques leveraging existing or new capabilities, patterns, and/or processes to govern and protect State Farm assets.
Develop, document, and maintain information security identity and access control strategy and operational procedures, guidelines, and processes.
Apply identity and access control concepts and practices in accordance with industry standards, security, risk management techniques, and governance/compliance requirements.
Research emerging identity and access security topics, threats, capabilities, and solution options.
Engage with teams across technology to understand needs to build identity and access control into technologies and solutions.
Understand security identity and access models of applications and design Role Base Access Control roles to support the given security access model.
Maintain a working knowledge of current and emerging technologies (e.g., AWS, new platforms, vendor products, etc.) and technology related practices (e.g., Agile, Product Management, DevOps).
Build and maintain access certification workflows: Develop the workflows that create, route, track, and close access review campaigns.
Integrate with identity and access data sources: Build and maintain integrations that collect accurate user, account, role, group, and entitlement data from authoritative systems.
Design secure, reliable APIs and services: Develop backend services and APIs that support certification, reporting, workflow orchestration, and integrations while enforcing security controls.
Support access remediation: Build processes that turn certification decisions into revocation tasks, automated deprovisioning, tickets, or exception records.
Ensure auditability and evidence retention: Capture reliable evidence showing what access was reviewed, who reviewed it, what decision was made, and whether remediation occurred.
Participate in product delivery and operations: Contribute to story refinement, development, testing, code review, deployments, troubleshooting, and production support.
Protect sensitive identity and access data: Ensure certification systems handle identity, entitlement, and security data securely through access controls, logging, encryption, and separation of duties.
Handling of service tickets, communication with business partners, business continuity, Viva Engage, Control audits, supporting implemented controls, etc.

Benefits

Compensation is based on our standard 38:45-hour work week
Potential starting salary range: $97,000 - $177,000
Starting salary will be based on skills, background, and experience
High end of the range limited to applicants with significant relevant experience
Potential yearly incentive pay up to 15% of base salary
Annual raise and bonus
Robust health and wellbeing programs
State Farm pays most of your healthcare premium
Multiple healthcare plan options, including a high deductible plan
All medical plans provide 100% coverage for in-network preventative care
Access to vision, dental, telemedicine, 24/7 mental health professionals
Educational benefits like industry leading training programs
Top-notch tuition assistance programs
Employee resource groups
Mentoring
Fertility/IVF/adoption assistance
College coaching
National discount programs
Interactive monthly financial workshops
Free financial coaching
Generous time off policies
Opportunity to initially earn up to 20 days annually
Parental leave
Paid holidays
Celebration day
Life leave (40 hours/year)
Bereavement leave
Community service/education support days
Matching Gift Program
Good Neighbor Grant Program
Employee Assistance Fund
Free financial advisors
401(k) plan with company contributions of up to 7% of your salary