Enterprise Identity

**About Careem**

Careem is the everyday Super App for the greater Middle East region, providing a host of daily services that people need to move around, order food, deliver things and transfer money in one unified smartphone app. Careem's mission is to simplify and improve the lives of people and build an awesome organization that inspires. Established in July 2012, Careem provides its services in over 100 cities across 13 countries and has created two million income-generating opportunities in the region. A pioneer of the region's ride-hailing economy, Careem became a wholly-owned subsidiary of Uber Technologies, Inc. in January 2020.

Our engineering team is growing rapidly, and we are looking for talented engineers to help us in our mission to simplify and improve the lives of people and build a lasting institution that inspires.

**Why join our journey**

When you start your journey at Careem, you'll be empowered to drive impact across a region of 600 million people, supported by our community of colleagues from over 75 nationalities. Whether you're creating codes for our Super App or finding new ways to bring our platform to the people in your city.

Join us as we solve some of the most difficult problems that our region faces at scale while driving stellar experiences for our Customers, Captains (drivers) and Merchants. You will have the chance to work on cutting edge technology and with a diverse set of individuals across many geographies. You will also have the opportunity to learn and grow every day to develop alongside talented and inspiring people from around the world. As a colleague at Careem, you'll be empowered to take ownership of your work, be of service to our Captains, customers and partners as we build the region's Super App, all while shooting for the moon to create impact across the region.

**About the role**

The individual will work closely with our Infrastructure, IT, Compliance and Legal teams to help build secure and robust enterprise IAM systems. We are a remote-first company and this brings interesting challenges for you to solve in the IAM space. We are passionate about our employees' experience, and we are looking to reduce friction in every aspect of our colleague Identity and Access Management areas by using modern and pragmatic IAM practices to meet the stringent security requirements we put on ourselves.

**Key Responsibilities**
- Combine your knowledge and expertise in IAM with the goals of our business to support and maintain a world-class enterprise IAM infrastructure to enable our continued growth;
- Implement, maintain and modernize Careem's Identity and Access Management systems ensuring they are widely adopted, provide a world-class experience to our colleagues and stay secure and compliant;
- Solve business and colleague experience problems through judicious use of technology;
- Assist in driving the identity architecture and strategic decisions as Careem moves along its growth and maturity curve;
- Communicate and collaborate effectively with stakeholders.

**Qualifications Required**
- You have an extensive and deep level of hands-on understanding of authentication concepts and implementation details (e.g., SSO, OAuth2, SAML, OpenID Connect);
- At least 5 years of hands-on experience in enterprise/corporate Identity and Access Management systems;
- You have a 'can do' attitude and you are more proactive than reactive;
- Excellent communication skills;
- You are passionate about automation and toil reduction;
- Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Management Information Systems; Information Systems, or a related field/experience is required.

**Experience Required**
- Extensive experience with designing and implementing IAM systems using vendors products (Okta, Ping, OneLogin, Azure AD);
- Experience in implementing IAM controls needed by regulations like SOx, GDPR etc.
- Hands-on experience working with cloud IAM systems like AWS Directory and identity and access management systems;
- Demonstrable ability to challenge, steer, and implement the future vision and roadmap for Identity, Authentication and Authorization;
- You are passionate about automation and working with tools and languages to support it (e.g., Python, scripting languages, Git, CI/CD pipelines);
- Strong Plus: Demonstrable experience in managing a Privileged Access Management (PAM) system.
- Plus: Experience working in hyper growth e-commerce environment.

**Where you'll be**
- This role is part of a remote distributed team This means you can be based _in _any of the countries where we currently have an engineering site. If you would like to join us in Dubai, Berlin, Ukraine, Russia, Poland, Pakistan, Egypt, Lebanon or Jordan, that's fine with us (Visa permitting)
- Even though we are working remotely, we are strong believers in collaboration and the power of building social connections with our teams. For that reason, our offices are still open and provide plenty of collaboration-friendly