Remote Azure AD B2C Identity Engineer

Cognizant; Mission (CA); On-site; USD 110,000 - 135,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical/Dental/Vision

401k + ESPP

PTO & Holidays

Parental leave

Learning & Certification

Wellness resources

Job summary

Cognizant is seeking an Azure AD B2C Identity Engineer to design, develop, and support secure customer identity solutions using Azure AD B2C and Microsoft identity technologies. You will collaborate with IAM, application teams, security, and business stakeholders to deliver scalable, compliant authentication experiences.

In this role, you will build and maintain IEF-based custom policies, support SSO integrations, manage app registrations and tokens, troubleshoot authentication flows, and help

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, Cybersecurity, Engineering, or related field, or equivalent professional experience.
• 7+ years of IAM, authentication, authorization, or identity platform engineering.
• Deep hands-on experience with Azure AD B2C and Identity Experience Framework (IEF) custom policy development.
• Extensive experience with custom-policy XML, including claims providers, technical profiles, orchestration steps, claims transformations, and relying party policies.
• Strong experience implementing identity federation and SSO using OpenID Connect, OAuth 2.0, and SAML.
• Experience integrating external identity providers and enterprise identity platforms.
• Expertise in Azure AD B2C application registrations, redirect URIs, certificates, secrets, token claims, and session management.
• Experience developing and configuring REST API technical profiles within Azure AD B2C.
• Strong troubleshooting skills related to authentication flows, policy execution, token validation, and identity platform integrations.
• Experience using Application Insights, logging platforms, JWT analysis tools, and diagnostic utilities.

Responsibilities

• Design, develop, and support Azure AD B2C identity solutions using Identity Experience Framework (IEF) custom policies and XML configurations.
• Build and maintain custom policies, including claims providers, technical profiles, user journeys, orchestration steps, claims transformations, and relying party policies.
• Implement federation and single sign-on (SSO) integrations using OpenID Connect, OAuth 2.0, SAML, and external identity provider connections.
• Configure and manage Azure AD B2C applications, app registrations, redirect URIs, certificates, secrets, token claims, and session management policies.
• Troubleshoot authentication, authorization, policy execution, and token-related issues using Application Insights, logging tools, JWT analysis, and diagnostic frameworks.
• Develop and support REST API technical profiles and custom integrations within Azure AD B2C environments.
• Review, update, and enhance existing custom-policy XML configurations to improve functionality, performance, and security.
• Support testing, deployment, and migration activities across development, test, staging, and production environments.
• Partner with IAM, application development, infrastructure, and security teams to deliver enterprise identity solutions.
• Provide technical guidance, best practices, and troubleshooting support throughout the identity solution lifecycle.

Skills

IAM

Azure AD B2C

IEF

SSO

OpenID Connect

OAuth 2.0

SAML

REST API

Troubleshooting

Communication

Education

Bachelor's degree in CS/IT/Cybersecurity

Tools

Application Insights

JWT analysis

Diagnostic tooling

Job description

Cognizant is seeking an Azure AD B2C Identity Engineer to design, develop, and support secure customer identity solutions using Azure AD B2C and Microsoft identity technologies. You will collaborate with IAM, application teams, security, and business stakeholders to deliver scalable, compliant authentication experiences.

In this role, you will build and maintain IEF-based custom policies, support SSO integrations, manage app registrations and tokens, troubleshoot authentication flows, and help