Senior Engineer Identity Security

Company: First American Financial Corp.
Location: Santa Ana
Posted on: May 27, 2025

Job Description:

Who We Are
Join a team that puts its People First! Since 1889, First American (NYSE: FAF) has held an unwavering belief in its people. They are passionate about what they do, and we are equally passionate about fostering an environment where all feel welcome, supported, and empowered to be innovative and reach their full potential. Our inclusive, people-first culture has earned our company numerous accolades, including being named to the Fortune 100 Best Companies to Work For list for ten consecutive years. We have also earned awards as a best place to work for women, diversity, and LGBTQ+ employees, and have been included on more than 50 regional best places to work lists. First American will always strive to be a great place to work, for all. For more information, please visit www.careers.firstam.com.
What We Do
Leads security engineering efforts for Microsoft and Identity Management platforms including cloud. This role will be central to delivering strategic identity and access management solutions that strengthen the security posture of First American and its global partners. You will take ownership of the design, implementation, and management of Microsoft solutions, including Workforce Identity and B2B, and ensuring comprehensive identity and access management (IAM) services across the organization.
How You'll Contribute

• Lead complex technical engineering discussions to create solutions that drive innovation while ensuring secure deployment in the cloud and other platforms.
  
• Collaborate with Operations, Governance, and Engineering teams to ensure the secure development, deployment, and optimization of access management services.
  
• Drive innovation, establish best practices, and influence the future architecture of identity security while being hands-on in developing solutions.
  
• Make recommendations on integration strategies, engineering solutions, platforms, and application infrastructure to successfully implement comprehensive solutions and optimize product effectiveness.
  
• Build trusted advisory relationships with strategic customers across the business and engage with Architects and senior management to identify priorities and design strategies that deliver business value.
  
• Perform market research on best-of-breed technologies and lead the engineering team to develop successful proof-of-concepts.
  
• Lead discussions with business partners to understand opportunities and leverage technology to solve complex business issues.
  
• Design, develop, and enhance technical architecture patterns and frameworks for enterprise use.
  
• Work with customers, stakeholders, product managers, and product owners to understand current and upcoming system requirements.
  
• Understand and communicate nonfunctional requirements.
  
• Evaluate design alternatives and perform cost-benefit analyses.
  
• Develop and maintain models and documentation describing system functions and recommended models.
  
• Define and break down large architectural objectives into smaller, incremental goals.
  
• Present the technological vision during planning, provide domain models, and participate actively in planning sessions.
  
• Champion change by assisting teams in making appropriate system and component design decisions during implementation.
  
• Serve as a top-level technical expert in specialized phases of applications programming.
  
• Research, design, write, test, and implement complex software applications and systems.
  
• Provide practical approaches to overcoming technical and procedural challenges.
  
• Lead Cloud Identity governance initiatives.
  
• Set technical direction affecting multiple groups/business units.
  
• Mentor and instruct team members to enhance their skills.
  
• Coordinate with other engineers to support upcoming user and business needs.
  
• Engage with and influence senior management on technical matters requiring cross-organization coordination.
  
• Provide technical consulting on complex projects.
  
• Perform duties outside normal hours based on business needs.
  
  What You'll Bring
  Required Education, Experience, Certification/Licensure
  

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• Bachelor's Degree or equivalent experience.
  
• 15+ years of related experience, including at least 10 years in enterprise-level security engineering.
  
• Extensive experience with Microsoft Entra ID, Active Directory, Azure, AWS, OCI, GCP.
  
• Deep knowledge of authentication protocols (SAML, OAuth2, etc.).
  
• Expertise in IAM lifecycle management, SSO, MFA, RBAC.
  
• Strong understanding of identity lifecycle management, access control, and security policies.
  
• Experience with distributed teams preferred.
  
• Expertise in Cloud Security configurations and multi-tiered IAM Cloud integrations.
  
• Designing identity-based security models for Cloud platforms.
  
• Continuous learning and mentoring to enhance team skills.
  
• Ability to communicate technical ideas to non-technical personnel.
  
• Strong presentation and organizational skills.
  
• Ability to devise procedures for complex problems considering system limitations.
  
• Experience in program design, coding, testing, debugging, and documentation.
  
• Full knowledge of all phases of Cloud Identity relationships.
  
• Problem-solving skills, including researching and implementing solutions.
  
• Ability to troubleshoot and resolve complex problems.
  
• Acts independently under broad direction.
  
• Proactive in issue identification and solution implementation.
  
  Salary Range: $166,750.00 - $222,325.00
  This range is an estimate and pay depends on various factors including knowledge, skills, experience, and location.
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