Senior Engineer, Cybersecurity to Senior Engineer, IAM

About the Position

NielsenIQ is seeking a Senior Engineer, Cybersecurity to Senior Engineer, IAM to join our team. This role involves managing CIAM and workforce IAM integrations, designing authentication flows, and enforcing MFA policies.

Responsibilities

• Own end-to-end CIAM and workforce IAM integrations for enterprise and custom applications, with a deep focus on Ping Identity (PingFederate, PingOne), Okta, and DaVinci orchestration workflows, supporting complex authentication and identity journeys.
• Design, implement, and maintain customer and workforce authentication flows using SAML, OIDC/OAuth 2.0, and API-based integrations, including token handling, claims mapping, scopes, and attribute transformation.
• Build and operate DaVinci identity workflows to orchestrate authentication, registration, step-up MFA, risk signals, identity verification, and downstream integrations across Ping, Okta, and third-party services.
• Lead application onboarding and migration efforts into Azure Entra ID for workforce identity, ensuring alignment with enterprise IAM standards, Conditional Access policies, and audit requirements.
• Engineer and enforce MFA and adaptive authentication policies across CIAM and workforce platforms, including exception handling, conditional logic, and troubleshooting across global user populations.
• Partner with application owners, product teams, and engineers to standardize authentication architectures, eliminate bespoke identity implementations, and align applications to approved CIAM and IAM patterns.
• Integrate CIAM platforms with identity lifecycle and governance systems (e.g., SailPoint, HR-driven sources, event-based provisioning) to support user lifecycle, access governance, and compliance requirements.
• Design and support non-human identity use cases, including service accounts, API clients, secrets, certificates, and token-based access for applications and integrations.
• Develop and maintain automation, telemetry, and reporting for IAM and CIAM operations using scripting and dashboards to improve visibility, reduce manual effort, and support compliance (SOX, SOC2, GDPR).
• Serve as a senior technical escalation point for complex IAM/CIAM incidents, performing root-cause analysis across identity providers, federation layers, token issuance, and application integrations.
• Contribute to IAM and CIAM governance, defining enforceable standards, patterns, and guardrails that translate security policy into operational reality.
• Participate in cross-functional initiatives including application modernization, platform consolidation, CIAM architecture evolution, and identity service reliability improvements.
• Produce high-quality technical documentation, runbooks, and reference architectures, and provide knowledge transfer to strengthen team capability and reduce single-point dependencies.
• Balance project delivery with BAU operational support, ensuring high availability and reliability of IAM and CIAM services while advancing platform maturity.

Requirements

• 5+ years of experience in IAM and CIAM roles.
• Proficiency with Ping Identity, Okta, and DaVinci orchestration workflows.
• Strong knowledge of SAML, OIDC/OAuth 2.0.
• Experience with Azure Entra ID and identity lifecycle and governance systems.
• Ability to design and implement authentication flows and MFA policies.

We Offer

• Competitive salary: CAD 94,000 - CAD 150,000 yearly.
• Flexible working environment.
• Volunteer time off.
• LinkedIn Learning.
• Employee-Assistance-Program (EAP).

About the Company

NielsenIQ is the world’s leading consumer intelligence company, delivering the most complete understanding of consumer buying behavior and revealing new pathways to growth. In 2023, NIQ combined with GfK, bringing together the two industry leaders with unparalleled global reach. With a holistic retail read and the most comprehensive consumer insights-delivered with advanced analytics through state-of-the-art platforms-NIQ delivers the Full View™. NIQ is an Advent International portfolio company with operations in 100+ markets, covering more than 90% of the world’s population.

For more information, visit NIQ.com.

Our commitment to Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion

At NIQ, we are steadfast in our commitment to fostering an inclusive workplace that mirrors the rich diversity of the communities and markets we serve. We believe that embracing a wide range of perspectives drives innovation and excellence. All employment decisions at NIQ are made without regard to race, color, religion, sex (including pregnancy, sexual orientation, or gender identity), national origin, age, disability, genetic information, marital status, veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by applicable laws. We invite individuals who share our dedication to inclusivity and equity to join us in making a meaningful impact. To learn more about our ongoing efforts in diversity and inclusion, please visit the Diversity and Inclusion page.

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