IAM Engineer

Anaplan; London; On-site; GBP 50,000 - 80,000; Full time

Job summary

Join Anaplan as an IAM Engineer, where you will play a crucial role in enhancing security through identity management and access governance. Collaborate with IT and HR to implement IAM processes, support the identity infrastructure, and contribute to a zero trust architecture. This high-impact role offers the opportunity to work in a dynamic environment and advance your technical expertise in IAM.

Qualifications

• Solid experience in identity and access management, ideally within a large or enterprise-scale organization.
• Extensive experience implementing and supporting SailPoint IdentityNow.
• Strong understanding of IAM concepts including identity lifecycle management.

Responsibilities

• Design, implement, and manage identity lifecycle and access governance processes.
• Develop and configure SailPoint workflows and integrations.
• Collaborate with HR and IT to integrate IAM into employee systems.

Skills

Identity and Access Management

SailPoint IdentityNow

Scripting (Python, Bash, PowerShell)

RESTful APIs

Job description

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At Anaplan, we are a team of innovators who are focused on optimizing business decision-making through our leading scenario planning and analysis platform so our customers can outpace their competition and the market.

What unites Anaplanners across teams and geographies is our collective commitment to our customers’ success and to our Winning Culture.

Our customers rank among the who’s who in the Fortune 50. Coca-Cola, LinkedIn, Adobe, LVMH and Bayer are just a few of the 2,400+ global companies that rely on our best-in-class platform.

Our Winning Culture is the engine that drives our teams of innovators. We champion diversity of thought and ideas, we behave like leaders regardless of title, we are committed to achieving ambitious goals and we have fun celebrating our wins.

Supported by operating principles of being strategy-led, values-based and disciplined in execution, you’ll be inspired, connected, developed and rewarded here. Everything that makes you unique is welcome; join us and be your best self!

The Security Operations and Enterprise Security team is responsible for protecting the organization’s workforce and systems through proactive security engineering, governance, and monitoring. Within this team, the Identity and Access Management (IAM) function focuses on securing employee access to enterprise systems, enforcing governance policies, and reducing identity-related risks. This role reports to the Director of Security Operations and Enterprise Security and plays a key part in building a scalable and secure identity infrastructure, with a strong emphasis on SailPoint and zero trust principles.

Your Impact

• Design, implement, and manage identity lifecycle and access governance processes to support a secure and scalable IAM capability across the organization.
• Develop and configure SailPoint IdentityNow workflows, rules, connectors, and integrations to enable automated provisioning and deprovisioning.
• Collaborate with HR, IT, and engineering to integrate IAM into core employee systems and ensure accurate, policy-driven access throughout the user lifecycle.
• Apply zero trust principles to enforce least privilege and implement just-in-time access across privileged roles.
• Support and enhance access control policies, RBAC models, and entitlement management across enterprise applications.
• Provide hands-on technical support to the IAM Architect to maintain and evolve a complex hybrid IAM environment.
• Write scripts and use APIs to automate identity processes and integrate third-party applications into the IAM ecosystem.
• Monitor and improve IAM performance, ensuring alignment with threat detection and prevention goals.
• Contribute to the maturity of the IAM function within a growing team, with opportunities to shape its long-term direction and scalability.
  
  

Your Qualifications

• Solid experience in identity and access management, ideally within a large or enterprise-scale organization.
• Extensive experience implementing and supporting SailPoint IdentityNow, including workflow development and connector configuration.
• Strong understanding of IAM concepts including identity lifecycle management, access provisioning, and privileged access governance.
• Proficiency in scripting languages such as Python, Bash, or PowerShell, with experience integrating via RESTful APIs.
• Familiarity with identity standards and protocols such as SAML, OAuth, SCIM, and LDAP.
• Experience working with role-based access control (RBAC) models and automating provisioning/deprovisioning processes.
• Exposure to zero trust architecture and JIT access models.
• Knowledge of software development practices, SDLC, and Agile methodologies.
• Excellent interpersonal and communication skills, with the ability to collaborate across technical and business teams.
  
  

Preferred Skills

• Background in workforce IAM within a corporate security function.
• Experience working in hybrid environments with both on-premise and cloud-based systems.
• Understanding of access governance frameworks and audit/compliance requirements.
• Ability to thrive in a fast-paced environment, balancing complexity and speed of delivery.
• Desire to contribute to the growth and development of an internal IAM capability with a strong engineering focus.
  
  

This is a high-impact opportunity to work at the center of our enterprise security program, helping to build and secure a modern identity ecosystem for our workforce. You’ll work closely with stakeholders across the business, gain exposure to advanced security infrastructure, and shape the future of IAM in a high-growth, tech-forward environment.

Our Commitment to Diversity, Equity, Inclusionand Belonging

Build your career in a place that thrives on diversity, equity, inclusion, and belonging. We believe in a hiring and working environment where all people are respected and valued, regardless of gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, religion, ethnicity, age, neurodiversity, disability status, citizenship, or any other aspect which makes people unique. We hire you for who you are, and we want you to bring your authentic self to work every day!

We will ensure that individuals with disabilities are provided reasonable accommodation to participate in the job application or interview process, perform essential job functions, and receive equitable benefits and all privileges of employment. Please contact us to request accommodation.

Fraud Recruitment Disclaimer

It has come to our attention that fraudulent and fictitious job opportunities are being circulated on the Internet. Prospective candidates are being contacted by certain individuals, mainly through telephone calls, emails and correspondence, claiming they are representatives of Anaplan. The main purpose of these correspondences and announcements is to obtain privileged information from individuals.

Anaplan does not:

• Extend offers to candidates without an extensive interview process with a member of our recruitment team and a hiring manager via video or in person.
• Send job offers via email. All offers are first extended verbally by a member of our internal recruitment team whenever possible, and then followed up via written communication.
  
  

All emails from Anaplan would come from an @anaplan.com email address. Should you have any doubts about the authenticity of an email, letter or telephone communication purportedly from, for, or on behalf of Anaplan, please send an email to [e-mail] before taking any further action in relation to the correspondence.

Seniority level

• Seniority level

  Mid-Senior level

Employment type

• Employment type

  Full-time

Job function

• Job function

  Engineering and Information Technology

• Industries

  IT Services and IT Consulting

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