Senior Software Engineer - Identity and Access Management

About the Role and Team

The Enterprise Technology mission at The Walt Disney Company is to deliver technology solutions that align to business strategies while enabling enterprise efficiency and promoting cross-company collaborative innovation. The organization drives our competitive advantage by enhancing consumer experiences, enabling business growth, and advancing operational excellence. Enterprise Technology is guided by the principles of being service focused and collaborative, being biased for action and innovation, and being efficient through leverage of TWDC scale and through continuous improvement.

Disney’s Enterprise Technology Identity and Access Management (IAM) group is responsible for providing a Core IAM ecosystem of products and platforms in use across the company by cast members, employees, and partners within Disney’s business segments (DMED, DPEP, Studios, DGE) and Corporate functions. Our vision is to provide modern Identity and Access Management capabilities and services that are simple, seamless, and secure to protect our workforce, our data, and our brands.

What You Will Do

We are hiring!

We are looking for our next team member. This will be someone with back-end experience (full-stack welcome), threat modeling, secure software development practices and solid IAM experience.

The Senior Software Engineer is responsible for the integration, implementation, and transformation of vendor-based IAM products and platforms that support cast members, employees, and partners of Disney. You will plan, validate, and execute on deliverables for technical integration and implementation of our IAM services in coordination with IAM domain architects, service managers/owners, software engineers, and our operations teams.

You will contribute to the platform/solutions engineering efforts for vendor-provided Enterprise IAM products and services. This includes:

• Active participant in IAM Transformation program and projects on a cross-functional team to progressively drive and execute on the lifecycle (adopt, evolve, retire/transform) of our IAM services at Disney
• Identifying and implementing changes to the environment that equip both application owners and end users with a great IAM experience
• Collaborating closely with software engineering teams in support of their custom developed solutions and products that integrate with vendor platforms
• Develops scripts to aid in automation and operations of service offerings
• Recommend and integrate solutions to increase effectiveness and efficiency of solution architecture and engineering to further enhance support capabilities, documentation and reporting.

Must Have

• Minimum of 5+ years of related work experience
• Back-end experience required; full-stack desired
• Secure system development knowledge
• Experience with threat modeling, secure software development practices, and systems integration
• Experience automating common operational tasks, web service/API development & integration, and deployment activities in scripting/programming languages (e.g. Python, PowerShell, Java, JavaScript)
• Familiarity in using scripting languages for data analysis
• Experience with implementing or maintaining identity and access management solutions:
  • Products/Vendors: Active Directory (AzureAD/AD), Okta, Ping, Azure AD, SailPoint, BeyondTrust, Siteminder
  • Single Sign-On; Multi-Factor Authentication (MFA)
  • Identity Federation, SSO, HCM (e.g., SAP, Workday) and IAM Data Integration

Nice To Have

• Managing certificate lifecycle and integration
• Protocols/Standards such as SAML, SCIM, OAuth2, OIDC, LDAP, FIDO2, Kerberos
• OAuth, OpenID Connect, SAML, SCIM and other Identity and Access Management standards and protocols
• AI, Machine Learning, Deep Learning
• Cloud Services

Education

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Information Systems, Software, Electrical or Electronics Engineering, or comparable field of study, and/or equivalent work experience