IAM Engineering Manager — Build a Scalable Identity Platform

G-Research; Greater London; On-site; GBP 90,000 - 130,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Lunch via Just Eat for Business

35 days leave

9% pension contributions

Informal dress code

Healthcare and life assurance

Cycle-to-work

Monthly company events

Job summary

G‑Research, based in London, seeks an IAM Engineering Manager to lead the strategy, engineering direction and operations of our identity management platforms. You will drive authentication, authorization, identity lifecycle, access governance and developer identity services across the organisation.

You will shape a modern, scalable identity platform and mentor a high‑performing IAM team while collaborating with engineering, security, risk and audit functions to ensure secure, auditable controls

Qualifications

• Proven experience leading engineering teams and delivering IAM platforms at scale.
• Deep knowledge of authentication, authorisation, federation, MFA, RBAC/ABAC, PAM and directory services.
• Familiarity with SAML, OIDC, OAuth2, SCIM and identity governance.

Responsibilities

• Owning and delivering the firm’s IAM strategy and roadmap.
• Driving a unified identity and permissions model, balancing security, usability and operational management.
• Defining standards for authentication, authorisation, privileged access and identity lifecycle management.
• Leading the design, operation and modernisation of scalable IAM platforms.
• Driving automation across identity lifecycle management and access governance.
• Ensuring IAM services are secure, reliable, auditable and operationally resilient.
• Leading mentoring and developing a high‑performing IAM engineering team.
• Partnering with engineering, security, risk and audit teams to influence technical direction.
• Defining and tracking platform health and control maturity metrics.
• Building a best‑in‑class identity control plane with consistent, fine‑grained access controls across the technology estate.

Skills

IAM leadership

Security engineering

Authentication

Authorization

MFA

RBAC/ABAC

PAM

Directory services

SAML

OIDC

OAuth2

SCIM

Governance

Enterprise platforms

Job description

G‑Research, based in London, seeks an IAM Engineering Manager to lead the strategy, engineering direction and operations of our identity management platforms. You will drive authentication, authorization, identity lifecycle, access governance and developer identity services across the organisation.

You will shape a modern, scalable identity platform and mentor a high‑performing IAM team while collaborating with engineering, security, risk and audit functions to ensure secure, auditable controls