Staff IAM Engineer

Credit Acceptance is proud to be an award-winning company with local and national workplace recognition in multiple categories! Our world-class culture is shaped by dedicated Team Members who share a drive to succeed as professionals and together as a company. A great product, amazing people and our stable financial history have made us one of the largest used car finance companies nationally.

Our Engineering and Analytics Team Members utilize the latest technology to develop, monitor, and maintain complex practices that help optimize our success.  Our Team Members value being challenged, are encouraged to express their ideas, and have the flexibility to enjoy work life balance.  We build intrinsic value by partnering with all functions of our business to support their success and make strategic business decisions.  We focus on professional development and continuous improvement while enjoying a casual work environment and Great Place to Work culture!

We are looking for a highly motivated Staff IAM Engineer to join our team at an exciting time. Our company is committed to building innovative technologies and future-proofing our business to stay ahead in the ever-changing digital landscape. We are seeking a passionate individual who is excited about working on cutting-edge identity platforms such as Entra External Identities (Azure B2C) and AWS Cognito. The ideal candidate should possess strong technical skills, a deep understanding of software development life cycle methodologies, and a keen eye for detail.

Outcomes and Activities:

• The position will work from home; occasional planned travel to an assigned Southfield, Michigan office location may be required. However, this position is permitted to work at a Southfield, Michigan office location if requested by the team member.
• Design and develop solutions for Customer Identity and Access Management (CIAM) Platforms such as Entra External Identities (Azure B2C) and AWS Cognito
• Integrate applications with SAML, OpenID Connect, RADIUS and OAuth.
• Integrate applications with Multi Factor Authentication
• Integrate applications with Password less Authentication
• Evolve and transform the design and architecture of applications towards leading edge technologies and practices
• Conduct impact analysis to proactively identify impact of a change across multiple applications/platforms
• Learn the business process domain to better support the business and align technologies with the business process
• Experiment and test ideas, validate assumptions against needs, reach conclusions and recommend solutions
• Document code and projects so others can easily understand, maintain and support
• Debug the problems which arise in production and propose effective solutions within the application and across multiple applications
• Read, write and review design documents
• Contribute to team's sprint commitments and actively participate in our Agile practices, including recommendations for process improvement
• Lead continuous learning activities to improve design and code quality as well as to increase application domain knowledge
• Participate in the talent selection process
• Act as a mentor to guide and review the code, designs and documentation of less experienced IAM engineers

Competencies: The following items detail how you will be successful in this role.

• Development: Develops solutions using standards and best practices of the applications language.  Writes code that implements the design that is testable, extensible, efficient and maintainable.
• Impact Analysis: Understand the rationale behind and how changes impact the enterprise and/or applications and across the technical ecosystem.
• Solution Design: Ability to translate high level requirements to create and implement designs that meet the needs of the customer, are technically sound, maintainable and cost effective. Ability to identify missing or ambiguous requirements. Ability to design at both high and low levels of abstraction, understand complex requirements and translate into understandable solutions. Ability to accurately estimate based on requirements.
• Technical Domain: Have an understanding of the technical domain, including the application architecture, design and data of the application they support and systems to which it interfaces.
• Facilitation Techniques: Organize, support and/or conduct workshops, meetings, presentations specific to the objectives of each, problem to be solve, and needs of the audience.

Requirements:

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Information Systems, or closely related field of study; or equivalent work experience
• Minimum 8 years of software engineering, identity and federation experience or comparable depth of experience<