Authentication Engineering Lead - SSO, MFA & IAM Strategy

Pfizer; Pennsylvania; Hybrid; USD 124,000 - 207,000; Full time

Job summary

Pfizer is seeking a Senior Manager of Authentication to lead strategy, architecture, and operations for enterprise authentication across on‑prem, cloud, and hybrid environments. You will oversee SSO, MFA, passwordless, and federation initiatives, partnering with Cybersecurity, Infrastructure, Cloud Engineering, and business stakeholders to deliver secure, scalable access solutions.

Lead the design and optimization of SSO/MFA frameworks, ensuring resilience and cloud integration while managing

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in a relevant discipline and 6+ years in identity and access management.
• At least 4 years focusing on SSO solutions with large-scale user bases.
• Strong knowledge of SSO technologies (SAML, OAuth, OpenID Connect) and MFA.
• Experience with Okta, Azure AD, or Ping Identity and cloud IAM solutions.
• Ability to solve complex authentication/authorization problems in a global environment.

Responsibilities

• Develop and execute a comprehensive Authentication strategy for enterprise applications.
• Oversee SSO/MFA architecture design, scalability, and integration with cloud and on‑prem services.
• Collaborate with IT, security, development, and product teams on secure access management.
• Maintain security controls and ensure compliance with GDPR, HIPAA, NIST, SOX, and GXP.
• Evaluate identity management tools and manage vendor relationships for deployment.
• Lead incident management and drive improvements to minimize disruptions.

Skills

SSO

MFA

SAML

OAuth

OIDC

Identity Federation

Security best practices

Cloud IAM

Education

Bachelor's degree

Master's degree (preferred)

Tools

Okta

Azure AD

Ping Identity

Job description

Pfizer is seeking a Senior Manager of Authentication to lead strategy, architecture, and operations for enterprise authentication across on‑prem, cloud, and hybrid environments. You will oversee SSO, MFA, passwordless, and federation initiatives, partnering with Cybersecurity, Infrastructure, Cloud Engineering, and business stakeholders to deliver secure, scalable access solutions.

Lead the design and optimization of SSO/MFA frameworks, ensuring resilience and cloud integration while managing