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Federation Engineer

Lensa
North Chicago, IL Full Time
POSTED ON 4/7/2026
AVAILABLE BEFORE 5/6/2026
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Abbott is a global healthcare leader that helps people live more fully at all stages of life. Our portfolio of life-changing technologies spans the spectrum of healthcare, with leading businesses and products in diagnostics, medical devices, nutritionals and branded generic medicines. Our 115,000 colleagues serve people in more than 160 countries.

About Abbott

Abbott is a global healthcare leader, creating breakthrough science to improve people's health. We're always looking towards the future, anticipating changes in medical science and technology.

Working at Abbott

At Abbott, You Can Do Work That Matters, Grow, And Learn, Care For Yourself And Family, Be Your True Self And Live a Full Life. You'll Also Have Access To

  • Career development with an international company where you can grow the career you dream of.
  • Free medical coverage for employees* via the Health Investment Plan (HIP) PPO
  • An excellent retirement savings plan with high employer contribution
  • Tuition reimbursement, the Freedom 2 Save (https://www.abbott.com/corpnewsroom/strategy-and-strength/tackling-student-debt-for-our-employees.html) student debt program and FreeU (https://www.abbott.com/corpnewsroom/strategy-and-strength/college-degree-for-free-its-possible-with-freeu.html) education benefit - an affordable and convenient path to getting a bachelor's degree.
  • A company recognized as a great place to work in dozens of countries around the world and named one of the most admired companies in the world by Fortune.
  • A company that is recognized as one of the best big companies to work for as well as a best place to work for diversity, working mothers, female executives, and scientists.

The Opportunity

This position works onsite out of our Lake County, IL or St. Paul, MN locations in the Business Technology Services organization.

As a Federation Engineer, you'll shape and expand our enterprise authentication and authorization ecosystem leveraging Microsoft Entra ID and modern federation standards to secure a global, diverse application landscape. You will be a key contributor in designing, building, and evolving federated identity solutions that enable seamless, secure access for employees, partners, and applications across the enterprise. This role will share responsibility for delivering a comprehensive set of federated connection design services by demonstrating your knowledge of SSO, SCIM, conditional access, and MFA technologies. This role will focus on expansion and evolution of existing Entra ID federation solutions for applications as prioritized by leadership by metrics.

What You'll Work On

  • Demonstrate a comprehensive understanding of modern authentication technologies leveraging Entra ID to implement application authentication using SAML, OAuth2, or OpenID Connect (OIDC) and LDAP-S.
  • Analyze and resolve technically complex, ambiguous authentication challenges, evaluating and analyzing federation and SSO solutions that span a complex enterprise IT environment.
  • Participate in multi-discipline design or problem resolution sessions leveraging modern diagnostic tools such as Microsoft Graph Explorer, Fiddler, SAMLTracer, and Postman to capture, inspect and diagnose SAML, OIDC and OAuth flows.
  • Provide guidance on security policies, standards to implement reference architectures and consistent federation implementation strategies.
  • Ensure smooth and successful transition of project deliverables to support, maintenance, and operations teams.
  • Stay current on modern authentication methods, Microsoft advancements, and evolving federation best practices.

Education & Required Qualifications

  • Bachelor's Degree or equivalent experience, preferably in a technology discipline.
  • 5 years' experience with identity & access management (IAM) technologies.
  • 2 years' experience building Entra ID federation connections using SAML, OIDC, OAuth2, SCIM, to provide application federation/authentication.
  • Demonstrated strength in oral and written communication, including facilitating SSO integration discussions, presenting technical concepts, leading meetings, negotiating requirements, decision making, and solving complex authentication issues.
  • Demonstrated ability to tailor communication to developers, vendors, and business stakeholders to gather requirements and deliver effective design solutions. Strong analytical skills with the ability to assess authentication issues and recommend practical, scalable solutions.

Preferred Experience

  • 5 years' experience building 100 federated connections for diverse applications and organizations using OAuth2, OIDC, SCIM, and SAML.
  • Security or Microsoft technology certifications are a plus (Azure, Entra ID, CISSP).
  • Experience with other Identity solutions (Ping, Okta, AWS Identity, etc.)

Misc

  • This is an onsite role located in IL/MN locations. This is NOT a remote role/opportunity.

Apply Now (https://www.jobs.abbott/us/en)

  • Learn more about our health and wellness benefits, which provide the security to help you and your family live full lives: www.abbottbenefits.com (http://www.abbottbenefits.com/pages/candidate.aspx)
  • Follow your career aspirations to Abbott for diverse opportunities with a company that can help you build your future and live your best life. Abbott is an Equal Opportunity Employer, committed to employee diversity.

Connect with us at www.abbott.com , on Facebook at www.facebook.com/Abbott , and on Twitter @AbbottNews

The base pay for this position is $78,000.00 - $156,000.00. In specific locations, the pay range may vary from the range posted.

An Equal Opportunity Employer

Abbot welcomes and encourages diversity in our workforce.

We provide reasonable accommodation to qualified individuals with disabilities.

To request accommodation, please call 224-667-4913 or email corpjat@abbott.com

If you have questions about this posting, please contact support@lensa.com

Salary : $78,000 - $156,000

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