[All remote jobs](https://jobicy.com/jobs.md)[![Ping Identity logo](https://jobicy.com/data/server-nyc0409/galaxy/mercury/2025/09/63e8d5a6-221.png)](https://jobicy.com/company/ping-identity.md)[Ping Identity](https://jobicy.com/company/ping-identity.md) # Principal Technical Consultant Review the role, location requirements, compensation details, and application process before deciding whether this opportunity fits your next career move. [Apply for this job](#job-application)[View company](https://jobicy.com/company/ping-identity.md)ShareRemote from[UK](https://jobicy.com/job-region/uk.md)SalaryUndisclosedDepartment[Cybersecurity](https://jobicy.com/categories/cybersecurity.md)EmploymentFull TimeExperienceDirectorPublished29 Oct 2026Apply before28 Nov 2026Listing views54Application actions5Application toolkit ## Make your next move. Prepare your resume, explore your fit, and draft a cover letter for this opportunity. AI Summary ## The role, at a glance. Ping Identity is seeking a principal-level technical consultant to architect, integrate, and deliver enterprise identity and access management solutions. The role leads customer engagements from discovery and design through testing, go-live, and operational handover, while supporting partners and internal escalation teams. It requires deep practical knowledge of IAM protocols, enterprise directories, APIs, cloud and hybrid deployments, and production troubleshooting. The consultant will also contribute to presales scoping, delivery standards, technical documentation, and mentoring. Up to 50% travel is required. ## Role DNA A quick view of the complexity, pace, ownership and collaboration implied by the job description. ### Job Complexity 5/5EasyHard ### Pace & Pressure 4/5RelaxedFast-paced ### Autonomy Level 5/5GuidedFull ownership ### Communication Load 5/5IndependentCollaborative AI insightThis is a senior consulting delivery role involving complex, security-critical IAM architectures, production incident diagnosis, and technical leadership across customer and partner teams. Success requires both deep protocol and integration expertise and the ability to manage delivery risks, trade-offs, and stakeholder expectations independently. ## Salary analysis Estimated compensation compared with the broader US market for similar roles. Estimated job median (per year)Market rate$160,000US market range (per year)$135k–$190k0$209.00k AI insightThe yearly pay period is inferred from the job context; it was not explicitly stated by the employer. No employer salary was disclosed. The annual figures are AI estimates in USD for a principal IAM technical consulting role and are not verified employer compensation. ## Core skills Skills and capabilities most closely associated with this opportunity. 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I translate these into an architecture and phased delivery plan, validate integrations and resilience through testing, lead cutover readiness, and provide runbooks and knowledge transfer before handover. How would you troubleshoot a failed OIDC or SAML single sign-on integration? I would inspect protocol traces, browser and server logs, token or assertion claims, redirect URIs, certificate validity, clock synchronization, audience values, and client configuration. I would then isolate whether the issue is in the identity provider, service provider, network path, or application session handling and document the corrective action. What factors do you consider when designing a highly available IAM deployment? I assess availability objectives, geographic distribution, directory and database replication, load balancing, session handling, certificate management, backup and recovery, monitoring, and disaster-recovery procedures. The design must also account for dependency failures and be validated with resilience and failover testing. How do you balance security controls with a low-friction user experience? I use risk-based controls and select the least disruptive mechanism that meets the security objective, such as adaptive MFA, trusted-device signals, and standards-based federation. I explain trade-offs to stakeholders and validate the proposed journey with both security and operational teams. How do you manage technical risks and changing requirements during a customer engagement? I maintain a visible risk, dependency, decision, and change log with clear owners and dates. I raise issues early, explain their delivery and security impact, propose options, and ensure agreed decisions are reflected in the architecture, plan, and customer documentation. Opportunity details ## About this role. About Ping Identity: At Ping Identity, we believe in making digital experiences both secure and seamless for all users, without compromise. We call this digital freedom. And it’s not just something we provide our customers. It’s something that inspires our company. People don’t come here to join a culture that’s built on digital freedom. They come to cultivate it. Our intelligent, cloud identity platform lets people shop, work, bank, and interact wherever and however they want. Without friction. Without fear. While protecting digital identities is at the core of our technology, protecting individual identities is at the core of our culture. [We champion every identity.](https://www.pingidentity.com/en/company/championing-every-identity.html) One of our core values, Respect Individuality, reminds us to celebrate differences so you are empowered to bring your authentic self to work. We’re headquartered in Denver, Colorado and we have offices and employees around the globe. We serve the largest, most demanding enterprises worldwide, including more than half of the Fortune 100. At Ping Identity, we’re changing the way people and businesses think about cybersecurity, digital experiences, and identity and access management. As a Professional Services Technical Consultant, you will play a technical role in the architecture and successful installation, integration, and deployment of Identity and Access solutions in our clients’ environments. You will also assist our implementation partners in that process. You will report to the Director of Professional Services. You will: * Deliver technical consulting to our customers and partners from various industries including financial services, manufacturing, government, utilities, and more. * Evaluate client business, process, systems, and technology requirements and advise clients on best practices to help guide and solidify proposed designs. * Consult with clients to assess current problem states, establish desired future states, and make solution recommendations. * Participate in the detailed solution design, implementation, and delivery of Ping Identity IAM product solutions to our clients. * Work with customers to install, deploy, and configure Ping Identity solutions to meet the customer’s requirements. * Collaborate with Ping Internal teams on escalated customer issues requiring deployment expertise. * Participate in services pre-sales processes including presentation of effort size, best practices, and feasibility studies. * Develop materials for providing technical consulting (e.g., best practices, report templates, delivery guides, knowledge base articles). * Help partners ensure they design an architecture aligned to Ping best practices for a successful customer deployment. * Mentor and assist in the development of internal and external technical resources. * Lead technical delivery from discovery and design through implementation, testing, production readiness, and handover, coordinating dependencies and surfacing delivery risks early. * Design and validate secure, scalable, highly available IAM deployments across cloud, hybrid, and on-premises environments, including integration, operational, and disaster-recovery considerations. * Troubleshoot complex implementation and production issues by analysing logs, traces, configurations, and network behaviour; work with Support and Product Engineering to drive resolution where needed. * Define and execute technical validation activities, including integration, end-to-end, performance, and resilience testing, and support cutover and go-live planning. * Produce clear implementation documentation, runbooks, and knowledge-transfer materials so customer and partner teams can operate and support the solution after delivery. * Balance strong security controls with a seamless user experience when shaping identity journeys and recommendations. You have: * 5+ years of experience working in a consulting capacity with a minimum of 2 years working directly in the Identity and Access Management space within a large organization or enterprise * Background in a consulting capacity within the Identity and Access Management space, including practical System Integration and Implementation experience * A capability-maturity approach to IAM deployments * Comfortable with subjects such as TCP/IP networking, OAuth 2.0, SAML 2.0, OIDC, LDAP, and Data Stores * Experience with Java/JavaScript/Groovy, HTML/CSS to support web application development * Experience in effort estimates and sizing of projects * Self-motivated, willing to take initiative, organized, able to work unaccompanied, and manage communications appropriately * Bachelor of Science in a related field (e.g. Computer Science, Electrical Engineering, or Information Systems) or equivalent work-related level of experience * Availability to travel up to 50% of the time * Outstanding cross-functional cooperation skills in particular with our Go-To-Market units. * Excellent communication, both verbal and written * Practical experience integrating IAM platforms with enterprise directories, applications, APIs, and identity systems, including federation, authentication, and user lifecycle or provisioning flows. * Experience with identity standards and protocols such as SCIM, HTTP/REST APIs, and common directory and federation patterns, in addition to OAuth 2.0, SAML 2.0, OIDC, FIDO and LDAP. * Experience designing or delivering IAM solutions in cloud, hybrid, or on-premises environments, including deployment, upgrade, resilience, and operational support considerations. * Strong diagnostic skills across application, identity, and network layers, with experience using logs and traces to isolate and resolve integration issues. * Experience planning and carrying out technical testing, production cutovers, and transition to customer or partner operations. * Ability to facilitate technical discovery and design workshops, explain trade-offs clearly, and adapt recommendations to customer constraints and desired outcomes. * Experience working within structured delivery practices, including managing technical risks, dependencies, decisions, and changes across a customer engagement. You have an advantage if: * Computer and Software Security certifications * ForgeRock or Ping training badges/certifications * Skills with DevOps best practices, including deployment automation tools, CI/CD, Docker, Terraform, and Kubernetes * Experience with Ping Identity products and architectures, such as PingFederate, PingAccess, PingDirectory, PingOne, or PingID. * Experience with identity governance, privileged access, customer identity, or workforce identity use cases beyond a single IAM product or deployment pattern. * Familiarity with observability and operational tooling, such as centralised logging, monitoring, alerting, and distributed tracing. * Experience with source control, infrastructure-as-code, configuration management, and automated testing for repeatable IAM deployments. * Experience migrating identity services, applications, or user populations from legacy platforms to modern IAM architectures. Life at Ping: We believe in and facilitate a flexible, collaborative work environment. We’re growing quickly, but remain true to the innovative, can-do startup values that got us here. Most importantly, we keep hiring talented, smart, fun, and genuinely nice people because that’s who we want to succeed with every day. Here are just a few of the things that make Ping special: * A company culture that empowers you to do your best work. * Employee Resource Groups that create a sense of belonging for everyone. * Regular company and team bonding events. * Competitive benefits and perks. * Global volunteering and community initiatives Our Benefits: * Generous PTO & Holiday Schedule * Parental Leave * Progressive Healthcare Options * Retirement Programs * Opportunity for Education Reimbursement * Commuter Offset (Specific locations) Ping is the collective sum of all our individual experiences, backgrounds and influences and we pride ourselves in growing and learning together. We are committed to building an inclusive and diverse environment where everyone’s individuality is respected and everyone has an Identity. In recruiting for new colleagues, we welcome the unique contributions you can bring and encourage you to be your best self. We are an Equal Opportunity/Affirmative Action employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex including sexual orientation and gender identity, national origin, disability, protected Veteran Status, or any other characteristic protected by applicable federal, state, or local law. Show more [Apply now >](https://jobicy.com/jobs/157782-principal-technical-consultant.md) > Annual salary information is not provided for this position. 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