ForgeRock Identity Engineer / Architect

Job Description

Job Description

Role: ForgeRock Identity Engineer / Architect

Location: VA, NJ, TX, Atlanta, Colorado, Tampa

About the Role

Join a high-impact POD building a self-service federated SSO platform. You’ll be the hands-on ForgeRock expert designing and engineering a scalable identity broker integrating with Okta, Microsoft Entra ID, PingIdentity, and more. This is a build-from-scratch, code-heavy role—not admin/config.

Key Responsibilities

• Design multi-tenant ForgeRock AM federation architecture
• Build REST APIs for programmatic SAML SP connection lifecycle (create/validate/activate)
• Implement SAML/OIDC flows, assertion validation, and secure session management across apps
• Develop scripted authentication (Groovy/JS) and automate certificate lifecycle (monitoring & rotation)
• Enable break-glass fallback, ensure high availability, and prepare SCIM-ready architecture
• Migrate existing manual SP connections to automated framework

Must Have

• 4+ years hands-on ForgeRock Access Manager (AM)
• Strong SAML 2.0 (debugging raw assertions), OIDC/OAuth 2.0
• Experience with ForgeRock REST APIs, scripted nodes, and keystore/X.509 management
• API design & integrations, LDAP, secrets management (AWS/Vault)
• Coding: Java/Groovy + CI/CD, API testing, SAML debugging tools

Nice to Have

• ForgeRock IDM, SCIM 2.0, cloud (AWS/Azure/GCP)
• Experience with Okta / Entra / Ping as IDP
• Migration of manual SP setups to programmatic model

Why This Role?

You’ll define the identity architecture powering hundreds of future customers—owning critical decisions, building automation, and solving complex, real-world federation challenges.