About Northern Trust:Northern Trust, a Fortune 500 company, is a globally recognized, award-winning financial institution that has been in continuous operation since 1889.
Northern Trust is proud to provide innovative financial services and guidance to the world's most successful individuals, families, and institutions by remaining true to our enduring principles of service, expertise, and integrity. With more than 130 years of financial experience and over 22,000 partners, we serve the world's most sophisticated clients using leading technology and exceptional service.
As an Associate Cyber Security Engineer in CIAM, you'll design, implement, and operate secure, resilient client authentication and authorization services. You will work hands-on across Okta (client IDP), PingAccess/PingFederate, and Okta Identity Governance (OIG). You will be part of an agile scrum team and collaborate with application teams across the bank to help build secure solutions for Azure applications and Java APIs and with our frontend team on a React login experience to deliver friction-right security.
Key responsibilities:Identity & Access Engineering- Configure and operate Okta tenant policies, routing rules, branding, and customizations for the client login experience; implement secure enrollment and recovery flows.
- Implement Okta OIG capabilities (campaigns for access certifications, request workflows for enrollments, management of entitlements/bundles); assist in connector setup, data imports, and reporting.
- Support PingFederate/PingAccess (SAML/OIDC integrations, policy enforcement, token lifecycles, mTLS/headers) and help plan cutovers to Okta where feasible.
Application & API Security- Partner with Java teams to secure APIs (OAuth 2.0 / OIDC, JWT validation, scopes/claims, Spring Security filters).
Cloud Security (Azure)- Integrate CIAM with Azure services.
Governance, Risk & Compliance- Apply CIAM controls for client password handling, secure transport, lockouts, profile-change notifications, and auditability as defined in our IAM standards.
- Contribute to CIAM metrics, fraud/risk signals, and governance enhancements in alignment with our roadmap.
Operations & Collaboration- Build/run automation (scripts/workflows), maintain runbooks, and resolve incidents with root-cause analysis.
- Partner across platforms that span Microsoft, Okta, Ping and related services per IAM architecture scope.
Salary Range:
$80,800 - 133,400 USD
Salary range is a good faith estimate of base pay. Northern Trust provides a comprehensive benefits package including retirement benefits (401k and pension), health and welfare benefits (medical, dental, vision, spending accounts and disability), paid time off, parental and caregiver leave, life & accident insurance, and other voluntary and well-being benefits. Northern Trust also provides a discretionary bonus program that may include an equity component.
Working with Us: As a Northern Trust partner, greater achievements await. You will be part of a flexible and collaborative work culture in an organization where financial strength and stability is an asset that emboldens us to explore new ideas.
Movement within the organization is encouraged, senior leaders are accessible, and you can take pride in working for a company committed to assisting the communities we serve! Join a workplace with a greater purpose.
We'd love to learn more about how your interests and experience could be a fit with one of the world's most admired and sustainable companies! Build your career with us and apply today. #MadeForGreater
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