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Job Description

Our company is an innovative, global healthcare leader that is committed to improving health and well-being around the world. Our product offerings include heart and respiratory health, infectious diseases and women's health. We continue to focus our research on conditions that affect millions of people around the world - diseases like Alzheimer's, diabetes and cancer - while expanding our strengths in areas like vaccines and biologics. We also devote extensive time and energy to increasing access to medicines and vaccines through far-reaching programs that donate and deliver our products to the people who need them.

As part of ongoing effort to improve security for our external users and partners, IT Risk Management Services has taken the ownership of Customer Identity and Access Management (CIAM) for our company. The Identity and Access Management Engineer will play a key role in building upon our company's future CIAM. The role will lead in the design and implementation of our company's cloud Customer Identity and Access Management (CIAM) security program. The position provides a unique opportunity to influence the organizations broader long-term CIAM strategy.

To help meet these emerging challenges, we are seeking an energetic, forward-thinking security professional to support the delivery of Identity and Access Management services.

Position responsibilities include:

+ Must have experience in defining CIAM platform requirements, designing technical solutions and executing on those designs into a highly available, fault tolerant environment.

+ Understanding of security best practices, administration and governance of Identity and Access Management the products and services including identify and evaluate security gaps.

+ Responsible for analyzing and documenting functional & non-functional requirement for customer IAM domains

+ Understand the requirement of the business and have technology acumen.

+ Support the project implementation through full life cycle of a customer IAM program

+ Technical writing, decision making and problem solving

+ Recommend improvements, corrections, remediation for projects or internal processes.

+ Advocate secure computing practices and procedures and communicate Information Security and CIAM best practices throughout the company.

+ Maintain active and direct interaction with key stakeholders.

+ Working with various technical teams to ensure we maintain high availability and uninterrupted outage of our production environment.

+ Assist in the application of system lifecycle practices during CIAM design and deployment.

**Education** :

Bachelor’s degree

Required skills & experience:

+ 4+ years of hands-on experience with implementation and troubleshooting with PingOne Advance Services suite

+ Strong analytical and problem-solving skills and demonstrable ability to work independently as well as in a team environment

+ Strong knowledge and experience with Azure AD, AD, MFA, SSO, IGA tools, PAM and AWS

+ Extensive working knowledge in integration of applications and business services with IAM and CIAM Solutions, user account provisioning in a broad range of IT systems (working with role-based access controls and configuring roles (provisioning and deprovisioning), Active Directory, MFA, SSO, SailPoint, Ping, Azure, and AWS

+ Well versed in Federation, SAML, OpenID, OAuth and other industry standard authentication / authorization solutions

+ Excellent communication skills and interpersonal skills are required.

+ A demonstrated track record of making a difference and adding value.

+ Strong organizational skills with the ability to multi-task.

+ Ability to work and adjust to changing deadlines.

+ Excellent interpersonal, written and oral communication skills with the ability to communicate effectively across all levels of an organization. Able to present technical ideas in business-friendly and user-friendly language

+ Proven analytical, evaluative, and problem-solving abilities

Desired skills:

+ Experience working in a large healthcare environment

+ Demonstrated understanding of Identity-related NIST standards (e.g. 800-63-3)

+ Prior experience with our company's enterprise environment and business applications

+ Good working knowledge of the ITIL framework

+ Working knowledge and understanding of Remedy for Change, Incident and Knowledge Management

Current Employees apply HERE (https://wd5.myworkday.com/msd/d/task/1422$6687.htmld)

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US and Puerto Rico Residents Only:

Our company is committed to inclusion, ensuring that candidates can engage in a hiring process that exhibits their true capabilities. Please click here (https://survey.sogosurvey.com/r/aCdfqL) if you need an accommodation during the application or hiring process.

As an Equal Employment Opportunity Employer, we provide equal opportunities to all employees and applicants for employment and prohibit discrimination on the basis of race, color, age, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, protected veteran status, disability status, or other applicable legally protected characteristics. As a federal contractor, we comply with all affirmative action requirements for protected veterans and individuals with disabilities. For more information about personal rights under the U.S. Equal Opportunity Employment laws, visit:

EEOC Know Your Rights (https://www.eeoc.gov/sites/default/files/2022-10/22-088\_EEOC\_KnowYourRights\_10\_20.pdf)

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We are proud to be a company that embraces the value of bringing together, talented, and committed people with diverse experiences, perspectives, skills and backgrounds. The fastest way to breakthrough innovation is when people with diverse ideas, broad experiences, backgrounds, and skills come together in an inclusive environment. We encourage our colleagues to respectfully challenge one another’s thinking and approach problems collectively.

Learn more about your rights, including under California, Colorado and other US State Acts (https://www.msdprivacy.com/us/en/CCPA-notice/)

Effective September 5, 2023, employees in office-based positions in the U.S. will be working a Hybrid work consisting of three total days on-site per week, Monday - Thursday, although the specific days may vary by site or organization, with Friday designated as a remote-working day, unless business critical tasks require an on-site presence.This Hybrid work model does not apply to, and daily in-person attendance is required for, field-based positions; facility-based, manufacturing-based, or research-based positions where the work to be performed is located at a Company site; positions covered by a collective-bargaining agreement (unless the agreement provides for hybrid work); or any other position for which the Company has determined the job requirements cannot be reasonably met working remotely. Please note, this Hybrid work model guidance also does not apply to roles that have been designated as “remote”.

The Company is required to provide a reasonable estimate of the salary range for this job in certain states and cities within the United States. Final determinations with respect to salary will take into account a number of factors, which may include, but not be limited to the primary work location and the chosen candidate’s relevant skills, experience, and education.

Expected US salary range:

$77,700.00 - $122,300.00

Available benefits include bonus eligibility, long term incentive if applicable, health care and other insurance benefits (for employee and family), retirement benefits, paid holidays, vacation, and sick days. A summary of benefits is listed here (https://www.benefitsatmerck.com/) .

**San Francisco Residents Only:** We will consider qualified applicants with arrest and conviction records for employment in compliance with the San Francisco Fair Chance Ordinance

**Los Angeles Residents Only:** We will consider for employment all qualified applicants, including those with criminal histories, in a manner consistent with the requirements of applicable state and local laws, including the City of Los Angeles’ Fair Chance Initiative for Hiring Ordinance

Search Firm Representatives Please Read Carefully

Merck & Co., Inc., Rahway, NJ, USA, also known as Merck Sharp & Dohme LLC, Rahway, NJ, USA, does not accept unsolicited assistance from search firms for employment opportunities. All CVs / resumes submitted by search firms to any employee at our company without a valid written search agreement in place for this position will be deemed the sole property of our company. No fee will be paid in the event a candidate is hired by our company as a result of an agency referral where no pre-existing agreement is in place. Where agency agreements are in place, introductions are position specific. Please, no phone calls or emails.

Employee Status:

Regular

Relocation:

No relocation

VISA Sponsorship:

No

Travel Requirements:

10%

Flexible Work Arrangements:

Remote

Shift:

Not Indicated

Valid Driving License:

No

Hazardous Material(s):

n/a

Required Skills:

Active Directory Software, Active Directory Software, Applied Engineering, Business Service Management (BSM), Business Support Services, Communication, Communication Management, Computer Science, Cybersecurity, Design Applications, Health Administration, Healthcare Management, Identity Access Management (IAM), Incident Management, Infectious Disease, Information Security, Information Systems Management, Information Technology (IT) Risk Management, Internal Processes, Interpersonal Communication, Management Process, Oral Communications, Organizational Communications, Pharmaceutical Biology, Problem Solving {+ 14 more}

Preferred Skills:

Job Posting End Date:

05/21/2025

*A job posting is effective until 11:59:59PM on the day** **BEFORE** **the listed job posting end date. Please ensure you apply to a job posting no later than the day** **BEFORE** **the job posting end date.

**Requisition ID:** R349304