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Get Access To All JobsAs a Sr. Identity Engineer - Single Sign On at Honeywell, this is your opportunity to join our Cybersecurity team and provide valuable, secure user experiences for Honeywell employees, partners, and customers.
YOU MUST HAVE:
- Bachelor’s or graduate degree in a computer-related field such as Computer Science, Computer Information Systems or equivalent.
- 3+ years of experience in developing web applications
- 2+ years of experience with Identity and Access Management
WE VALUE:
- Experience with identity provider technologies such as Ping Federate, Okta, etc.
- Experience with SAML, OAuth, OpenID Connect
- Understanding of encryption, certificates, and digital signatures
- Java development including frameworks such as Struts
- Web development with HTML, JavaScript, CSS, JQuery, Bootstrap, etc.
- SQL database design and optimization (including query)
- Technical design and development skills
- Strong analytical and technical problem-solving skills
- Familiarity with various requirements gathering techniques
- Knowledge and experience in IT/development methodologies and life cycles
- Experience building/supporting solutions for mission-critical, distributed applications
- Experience with multi-tier system development for large enterprises
- Exposure to infrastructure and application security technologies and approaches
- Experience with directories such as LDAP and Active Directory
- Knowledge of cloud concepts and design
- Experience with service-oriented design
- Unix/Linux knowledge
- Mobile development experience – both native and responsive web design
- Interpersonal communication and organizational skills
BENEFITS OF WORKING FOR HONEYWELL
In addition to a competitive salary, leading-edge work, and developing solutions side-by-side with dedicated experts in their fields, Honeywell employees are eligible for a comprehensive benefits package. This package includes employer subsidized Medical, Dental, Vision, and Life Insurance; Short-Term and Long-Term Disability; 401(k) match, Flexible Spending Accounts, Health Savings Accounts, EAP, and Educational Assistance; Parental Leave, Paid Time Off (for vacation, personal business, sick time, and parental leave), and 12 Paid Holidays.
The application period for the job is estimated to be 40 days from the job posting date; however, this may be shortened or extended depending on business needs and the availability of qualified candidates. Job Posting Date: 8/4/2026
About Honeywell Technologies
Honeywell Technologies is a global, pure-play automation company with a legacy of innovating to help solve the world’s most mission-critical challenges, enhancing the quality of life for people and communities around the world. We serve the building, industrial, and process sectors with a broad portfolio of services, solutions, and products, underpinned by our Honeywell Technologies Accelerator operating system and Honeywell Technologies Forge intelligence layer. By combining the deep domain expertise of our more than 50,000 employees with decades of data from our global installed base, we are uniquely positioned to lead the industrial sector’s transition from automation to autonomy.
THE BUSINESS UNIT
The Corporate Strategic Business Group (CORP SBG) at Honeywell is a division focused on corporate-level functions and initiatives that support the overall operations and strategy of the company. It is responsible for overseeing areas such as finance, legal, human resources, communications, and corporate governance, working closely with other business units and SBGs to ensure alignment and coordination across the organization. The CORP SBG plays a crucial role in the overall strategic direction and management of Honeywell's corporate functions and operations, supporting the company's business objectives.
Honeywell is an equal opportunity employer. Qualified applicants will be considered without regard to age, race, creed, color, national origin, ancestry, marital status, affectional or sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, disability, nationality, sex, religion, or veteran status.
You will work with the latest Single Sign-On technologies that perform multi-factor authentication, federation, and profile management. You will provide world class engineering solutions ensuring that they align with direction set by best practices and defined standards within Honeywell. Your job responsibilities will include the following:
- Serve as a subject matter expert for SSO services under the IAM services portfolio
- Understand how the service works from a business/end-user/technical perspective
- Have command of the service including its capabilities and proper use
- Execute proof-of-concepts guided by Sr. Identity Architect and Service Manager
- Complete assigned project/tasks in a timely manner
- Interact with key stakeholders and project/program teams to understand their requirements and engineer solutions based on best practices
- Ensure proper oversight for quality assurance of IAM artifacts
- Enforce adherence to architectural standards/principles
- Proactively provide feedback regarding infrastructure IAM engineering methodologies, standards, and leading projects
- Minimize technical exposure and risk on projects
- Delivers and manages a highly available, stable, and secure Directory Services environment
- Participates in the testing (e.g. planning and execution) related to performance, disaster recovery, and business continuity for AD and AAD
- Deliver solutions to meet functional and non-functional requirements
- Contribute to and execute tasks within the service backlog
- Create design packages
- Develop, test, and deploy code packages
- Maintain accurate and timely tracking of activities
- Analytical/Decision Making Responsibilities
- Understands the art of the possible, compares various architectural options based on feasibility/impact and proposes actionable plans
- Demonstrated strong analytical skills and technical problem-solving skills
- Analyzes and resolves complex issues (e.g. performance problems and outages) to the Directory Services environments, escalating to and working with vendors and clients as required
- Ability to analyze and operate at different levels of abstraction
- Ability to balance what is strategically right with what is practically realistic
- Evangelize optimal options based on documented best practices and standards
- Maintain accurate and timely tracking of activities
- Incident/Problem management
- Manage incident/problem lifecycle including ticketing and stakeholder interaction
- Performs proactive problem management to identify and resolve potential issues related to the Directory environments
- Follow documented troubleshooting procedures for standard support situations
- Escalate to and collaborate with tier 3 support (i.e., Sr. Identity Architect), when necessary
- Run book activities
- Monitor the service from both a functional and infrastructure perspective
- Execute service reports and gather/report metrics
- Address service problems
- Document changes and/or new activities
- Works under supervision of the Sr. Cyber Security Manager, and interacts with Senior/Portfolio Architect
Honeywell helps organizations solve the world's most complex challenges in automation, the future of aviation and energy transition. As a trusted partner, we provide actionable solutions and innovation through our Aerospace Technologies, Building Automation, Energy and Sustainability Solutions, and Industrial Automation business segments – powered by our Honeywell Forge software – that help make the world smarter, safer and more sustainable.
As a Sr. Identity Engineer - Single Sign On at Honeywell, this is your opportunity to join our Cybersecurity team and provide valuable, secure user experiences for Honeywell employees, partners, and customers.
YOU MUST HAVE:
- Bachelor’s or graduate degree in a computer-related field such as Computer Science, Computer Information Systems or equivalent.
- 3+ years of experience in developing web applications
- 2+ years of experience with Identity and Access Management
WE VALUE:
- Experience with identity provider technologies such as Ping Federate, Okta, etc.
- Experience with SAML, OAuth, OpenID Connect
- Understanding of encryption, certificates, and digital signatures
- Java development including frameworks such as Struts
- Web development with HTML, JavaScript, CSS, JQuery, Bootstrap, etc.
- SQL database design and optimization (including query)
- Technical design and development skills
- Strong analytical and technical problem-solving skills
- Familiarity with various requirements gathering techniques
- Knowledge and experience in IT/development methodologies and life cycles
- Experience building/supporting solutions for mission-critical, distributed applications
- Experience with multi-tier system development for large enterprises
- Exposure to infrastructure and application security technologies and approaches
- Experience with directories such as LDAP and Active Directory
- Knowledge of cloud concepts and design
- Experience with service-oriented design
- Unix/Linux knowledge
- Mobile development experience – both native and responsive web design
- Interpersonal communication and organizational skills
BENEFITS OF WORKING FOR HONEYWELL
In addition to a competitive salary, leading-edge work, and developing solutions side-by-side with dedicated experts in their fields, Honeywell employees are eligible for a comprehensive benefits package. This package includes employer subsidized Medical, Dental, Vision, and Life Insurance; Short-Term and Long-Term Disability; 401(k) match, Flexible Spending Accounts, Health Savings Accounts, EAP, and Educational Assistance; Parental Leave, Paid Time Off (for vacation, personal business, sick time, and parental leave), and 12 Paid Holidays.
The application period for the job is estimated to be 40 days from the job posting date; however, this may be shortened or extended depending on business needs and the availability of qualified candidates. Job Posting Date: 8/4/2026
About Honeywell Technologies
Honeywell Technologies is a global, pure-play automation company with a legacy of innovating to help solve the world’s most mission-critical challenges, enhancing the quality of life for people and communities around the world. We serve the building, industrial, and process sectors with a broad portfolio of services, solutions, and products, underpinned by our Honeywell Technologies Accelerator operating system and Honeywell Technologies Forge intelligence layer. By combining the deep domain expertise of our more than 50,000 employees with decades of data from our global installed base, we are uniquely positioned to lead the industrial sector’s transition from automation to autonomy.
THE BUSINESS UNIT
The Corporate Strategic Business Group (CORP SBG) at Honeywell is a division focused on corporate-level functions and initiatives that support the overall operations and strategy of the company. It is responsible for overseeing areas such as finance, legal, human resources, communications, and corporate governance, working closely with other business units and SBGs to ensure alignment and coordination across the organization. The CORP SBG plays a crucial role in the overall strategic direction and management of Honeywell's corporate functions and operations, supporting the company's business objectives.
Honeywell is an equal opportunity employer. Qualified applicants will be considered without regard to age, race, creed, color, national origin, ancestry, marital status, affectional or sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, disability, nationality, sex, religion, or veteran status.
You will work with the latest Single Sign-On technologies that perform multi-factor authentication, federation, and profile management. You will provide world class engineering solutions ensuring that they align with direction set by best practices and defined standards within Honeywell. Your job responsibilities will include the following:
- Serve as a subject matter expert for SSO services under the IAM services portfolio
- Understand how the service works from a business/end-user/technical perspective
- Have command of the service including its capabilities and proper use
- Execute proof-of-concepts guided by Sr. Identity Architect and Service Manager
- Complete assigned project/tasks in a timely manner
- Interact with key stakeholders and project/program teams to understand their requirements and engineer solutions based on best practices
- Ensure proper oversight for quality assurance of IAM artifacts
- Enforce adherence to architectural standards/principles
- Proactively provide feedback regarding infrastructure IAM engineering methodologies, standards, and leading projects
- Minimize technical exposure and risk on projects
- Delivers and manages a highly available, stable, and secure Directory Services environment
- Participates in the testing (e.g. planning and execution) related to performance, disaster recovery, and business continuity for AD and AAD
- Deliver solutions to meet functional and non-functional requirements
- Contribute to and execute tasks within the service backlog
- Create design packages
- Develop, test, and deploy code packages
- Maintain accurate and timely tracking of activities
- Analytical/Decision Making Responsibilities
- Understands the art of the possible, compares various architectural options based on feasibility/impact and proposes actionable plans
- Demonstrated strong analytical skills and technical problem-solving skills
- Analyzes and resolves complex issues (e.g. performance problems and outages) to the Directory Services environments, escalating to and working with vendors and clients as required
- Ability to analyze and operate at different levels of abstraction
- Ability to balance what is strategically right with what is practically realistic
- Evangelize optimal options based on documented best practices and standards
- Maintain accurate and timely tracking of activities
- Incident/Problem management
- Manage incident/problem lifecycle including ticketing and stakeholder interaction
- Performs proactive problem management to identify and resolve potential issues related to the Directory environments
- Follow documented troubleshooting procedures for standard support situations
- Escalate to and collaborate with tier 3 support (i.e., Sr. Identity Architect), when necessary
- Run book activities
- Monitor the service from both a functional and infrastructure perspective
- Execute service reports and gather/report metrics
- Address service problems
- Document changes and/or new activities
- Works under supervision of the Sr. Cyber Security Manager, and interacts with Senior/Portfolio Architect
Honeywell helps organizations solve the world's most complex challenges in automation, the future of aviation and energy transition. As a trusted partner, we provide actionable solutions and innovation through our Aerospace Technologies, Building Automation, Energy and Sustainability Solutions, and Industrial Automation business segments – powered by our Honeywell Forge software – that help make the world smarter, safer and more sustainable.
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Get Access To All JobsTips for Finding STEM OPT Authorization in Identity Access Management
Verify your CIP code covers IAM
Check that your degree's CIP code appears on the STEM OPT eligible fields list maintained by USCIS. Computer science, information assurance, and cybersecurity codes typically qualify, but information systems degrees vary by program classification.
Confirm E-Verify enrollment before applying
Search the E-Verify employer search tool to confirm a company is enrolled before you invest time interviewing. IAM teams at staffing firms and consulting shops frequently subcontract, so verify the actual legal employer, not the client site.
Build your I-983 training plan around IAM competencies
Draft your I-983 learning objectives using specific IAM competencies: identity lifecycle management, privileged access controls, and zero-trust architecture. Vague training plans get flagged by DSOs, so map each goal to your role's actual responsibilities.
Target employers with active PERM and LCA filings
Use Migrate Mate to filter IAM roles by employers who have filed Labor Condition Applications, signaling they understand sponsored work authorization and have HR processes built for international hires on OPT.
Negotiate your start date around cap-gap protection
If your OPT expires before October 1 and your employer files an H-1B visa petition on your behalf, cap-gap automatically extends your work authorization. Coordinate your offer letter start date so there's no gap between your EAD expiration and cap-gap coverage.
Use IAM certification credentials to offset degree mismatches
If your degree is adjacent to IAM, such as electrical engineering or applied mathematics, industry certifications like CISSP or CyberArk credentials document your technical training and strengthen the employer's I-983 justification for placing you in an IAM role.
Frequently Asked Questions
Does an Identity Access Management role qualify for the STEM OPT extension?
IAM roles typically qualify if your underlying degree has an eligible CIP code, such as computer science, information assurance, or cybersecurity. The role itself must require STEM knowledge and be directly related to your degree field. Your DSO confirms eligibility based on your program's CIP code, not your job title alone.
What E-Verify requirement applies to my STEM OPT employer in an IAM role?
Your employer must be enrolled in E-Verify before your STEM OPT extension is approved. This applies to the legal entity signing your I-983, not necessarily a client site where you work. If you're placed through a staffing agency or consulting firm, confirm which entity holds your employment record and verify their E-Verify status directly through the E-Verify employer search.
How do I complete the I-983 training plan for an IAM position?
Your I-983 must outline specific learning goals tied to your IAM role, such as implementing identity governance frameworks, managing privileged access systems, or deploying multi-factor authentication solutions. Both you and your employer's authorized representative must sign it. Your DSO reviews and approves it before USCIS processes your extension, so vague or generic objectives will delay approval.
Where can I find IAM jobs that sponsor STEM OPT students?
Migrate Mate filters IAM roles by employers with active Labor Condition Application filing history, so you can identify companies that have already navigated sponsored work authorization. This saves time compared to applying broadly and discovering after interviews that an employer has never hired on OPT or isn't enrolled in E-Verify.
What happens to my STEM OPT authorization if my IAM employer loses E-Verify enrollment?
If your employer's E-Verify enrollment lapses or is terminated after your STEM OPT extension is approved, your authorization is at risk. USCIS requires continuous E-Verify enrollment throughout your extension period. You should notify your DSO immediately, and you may need to transfer to a new qualifying employer and file an updated I-983 to maintain valid status.