FactSet creates flexible, open data and software solutions for over 200,000 investment professionals worldwide, providing instant access to financial data and analytics that investors use to make crucial decisions.
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In this role, you will work with team of engineers who are responsible for the design, development, and support of all services that compose FactSet’s Customer Identity and Access Management solution. The IAM solution includes services that store customer identities, authenticate users and workloads, authorize requests, and propagate internal identity tokens between hundreds of microservices. These core services are ubiquitous – used by all FactSet customers, applications, services, and engineers. You’ll have a large impact on the success of the entire organization.
What You’ll Do
- Design and build mission critical IAM services, primarily in Java
- Develop and support large-scale, global systems that adhere to security compliance
- Work with AWS and on-premises systems to deploy services
- Develop and maintain current and future state IAM documentation and standards
- Participate in code-reviews and proactively take ownership of PR’s and make sure to catch all security vulnerabilities
- Proper collaboration and interaction with multiple teams across FactSet and respond to stake holder queries in a timely manner
- Learn about the errors and incidents in production while participating in the on-call rotation as and when required
What We’re Looking For
- Bachelor’s degree, or higher, in Computer Science or a related technical field
- 5+ years’ of programming experience in Java or another OOP language
- Candidate should have experience with IAM authentication protocols such as OAuth2, OpenID Connect & SAML.
- Built services using a relational database (e.g. MS SQL Server, PostgreSQL, MySQL)
- Basic knowledge of cloud technologies (AWS/Azure etc)
- Willing to participate in on-call rotation
You may be a good fit for this role if you have:
- Implemented role-based access control systems in large, distributed environment
- Written RESTful HTTP APIs
- A strong understanding of browser functionality (e.g. Cookies, CORS)
Company Overview:
FactSet (NYSE:FDS | NASDAQ:FDS) helps the financial community to see more, think bigger, and work better. Our digital platform and enterprise solutions deliver financial data, analytics, and open technology to more than 8,200 global clients, including over 200,000 individual users. Clients across the buy-side and sell-side, as well as wealth managers, private equity firms, and corporations, achieve more every day with our comprehensive and connected content, flexible next-generation workflow solutions, and client-centric specialized support. As a member of the S&P 500, we are committed to sustainable growth and have been recognized among the Best Places to Work in 2023 by Glassdoor as a Glassdoor Employees’ Choice Award winner. Learn more at www.factset.com and follow us on X and LinkedIn.
At FactSet, we celebrate difference of thought, experience, and perspective. Qualified applicants will be considered for employment without regard to characteristics protected by law.
