Principal Engineer IAM

Join us as a Principal Engineer IAM, where you will support the acceleration of a new digital platform capability, transforming and modernising our digital estate to build a market-leading digital offering with customer experience at its heart. You will partner with business-aligned engineering and product teams to ensure a collaborative team culture is at the heart of what we do. To be successful in this role, you should have strong hands-on experience in the configuration, deployment, and running of ForgeRock COTS-based IAM solutions (Ping Gateway, Ping AM, Ping IDM, Ping DS). This includes designing and implementing cloud-based, scalable, and resilient IAM solutions for large corporate organizations. Additionally, experience with IAM engineering across authentication, authorization, single sign-on, multi-factor authentication, identity lifecycle management, OAuth2.0, OpenID Connect, SAML, and policy management is essential. Expertise with JavaScript, Java, Python, and comfort with API and microservices development are required. Moreover, a strong working knowledge of Site Reliability Engineering principles and experience with cloud computing, specifically AWS (Azure is a plus), are necessary. Some other highly desirable skills include experience in DevSecOps, knowledge of Product Operating Model, Infrastructure as a Code tooling (Chef is essential, Ansible is a plus), containerization, authentication, biometric system design, and open-source experience. In this role, you will be assessed on key critical skills relevant for success, such as risk and controls, change and transformation, business acumen, strategic thinking, and digital and technology, as well as job-specific technical skills. This position will be based out of our Pune office. Purpose of the role: To drive technical excellence and innovation by leading the design and implementation of robust software solutions, providing mentorship to engineering teams, fostering cross-functional collaboration, and contributing to strategic planning to ensure the delivery of high-quality solutions aligned with business objectives. Accountabilities: - Provision of guidance and expertise to engineering teams to ensure alignment with best practices and foster a culture of technical excellence. - Contribution to strategic planning by aligning technical decisions with business goals, anticipating future technology trends, and providing insights to optimize product roadmaps. - Design and implementation of complex, scalable, and maintainable software solutions, considering long-term viability and business objectives. - Mentoring and coaching to junior and mid-level engineers to foster professional growth and knowledge sharing, elevating the overall skillset and capabilities of the organization. - Collaboration with business partners, product managers, designers, and other stakeholders to translate business requirements into technical solutions and ensure a cohesive approach to product development. - Innovation within the organization by identifying and incorporating new technologies, methodologies, and industry practices into the engineering process. Vice President Expectations: To contribute or set strategy, drive requirements, and make recommendations for change. Plan resources, budgets, and policies; manage and maintain policies/processes; deliver continuous improvements and escalate breaches of policies/procedures. For an individual contributor, they will be a subject matter expert within their discipline, guide technical direction, lead collaborative multi-year assignments, and guide team members through structured assignments. They will train, guide, and coach less experienced specialists, provide information affecting long-term profits, organizational risks, and strategic decisions. Advise key stakeholders, manage and mitigate risks, demonstrate leadership and accountability for managing risk, strengthen controls, demonstrate comprehensive understanding of organizational functions, collaborate with other areas of work, create solutions based on sophisticated analytical thought, and build and maintain trusting relationships with internal and external stakeholders. All colleagues will be expected to demonstrate the Barclays Values of Respect, Integrity, Service, Excellence, and Stewardship our moral compass, helping us do what we believe is right. They will also be expected to demonstrate the Barclays Mindset to Empower, Challenge, and Drive the operating manual for how we behave.,