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Job Summary:
Regions Bank is dedicated to providing a career-oriented environment for its associates. The Customer Authentication Engineer will manage the maintenance and operation of authentication and related security systems, ensuring effective controls to protect customers and employees.
Responsibilities:
• Performs administration duties for the Identity and Authentication platforms
• Develops and maintains detailed technical documentation related to the Customer Authentication and Identity platforms including on-premise and cloud-based deployments
• Serves as support for architecture, support, engineering, and application development issues related to Customer Authentication and Identity
• Analyzes, troubleshoots, and develops third-party integrations for related authentication and identity tools
• Creates new ways to solve existing production security issues related to authentication
• Evaluates new technologies and processes that enhance authentication capabilities and collaborates with management to enact change
• Establishes plans and protocols to protect data and information systems against unauthorized access, modification, and/or destruction
• Delivers technical reports on daily activities
• Analyzes and advises on new authentication technologies and program conformance
• Maintains knowledge of current and emerging technologies and advancements associated with Omni-channel and Digital Authentication and Identity offerings including Cyber Crime related activities
• Analyzes security scenarios and provides data-driven solutions and recommendations to management
• May offer advice and guidance to junior engineers
Qualifications:
Required:
• Bachelor’s degree and four (4) years of experience in Information Security/Technology
• Or Associate's degree and eight (8) years of experience in Information Security/Technology
Preferred:
• Experience with Agile methodology and SDLC concepts/tools (Git, Atlassian stack)
• Experience with cloud-based technologies and environments such as AWS and Azure
• Experience with Linux/Unix, Windows, scripting (with programming languages such as Bash, PowerShell, or Perl), SQL, LDAP, and web services
• Experience with one or more programming languages such as Java, C#, C/C++, Python, or JavaScript
• Ability to articulate complex technical concepts/scenarios to both technical and non-technical audiences
• Familiarity with FIDO, Webauthn, OTP, Biometrics, and multifactor authentication (MFA) platforms
• Financial services experience
• Relevant security certifications (e.g. CISSP, CIAM, etc.)
• Strong understanding of Active Directory, LDAP, RADIUS, NTLM, Kerberos, and ADFS
• Strong understanding of SAML, OAUTH, OIDC, and JWT
• Strong understanding of TCP/IP network security principles and troubleshooting
• Hands-on experience engineering customer authentication flows, not just configuring IAM tools (e.g., policy‑driven, conditional, or risk‑based authentication)
• Strong, implementation-level knowledge of modern identity and authentication protocols (OAuth 2.0, OpenID Connect, SAML, JWT) and their security considerations
• Experience designing or supporting cloud‑native, distributed authentication services, including containerized or microservice-based architectures
• Ability to design and operate vendor‑agnostic identity solutions using open standards and modular architectures
• Solid understanding of customer identity lifecycle management, including registration, recovery, step‑up authentication, and account linking
• Security engineering mindset, including threat modeling for authentication systems, abuse prevention, and secure token handling
• Proven ability to analyze complex authentication or identity issues across application, infrastructure, and security layers
• Strong written and verbal communication skills, with the ability to document architectures and explain tradeoffs to technical and non‑technical stakeholders
Company:
Regions Financial Corporation is a member of the S&P 500 Index and is one of the nation’s largest full-service providers of consumer and commercial banking, wealth management, and mortgage products and services. Founded in 1971, the company is headquartered in Memphis, USA, with a team of 10001+ employees. The company is currently Late Stage.