IAM Platform Engineer: Identity Automation & Access

G-Research; Greater London; On-site; GBP 85,000 - 110,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Annual discretionary bonus

Lunch provided

35 days annual leave

9% pension contributions

Casual dress code

Healthcare and life assurance

Cycle-to-work scheme

Monthly company events

Barista bar

Job summary

G-Research in London seeks an experienced IAM Platform Engineer to own authentication, identity federation, credential management and privileged access platforms. You will modernise identity infrastructure with scalable, standards-based IAM services that are secure, automated and easy for engineering teams to consume.

You will shape the future of authentication and privileged access within one of the world’s leading quantitative research firms, working on large-scale engineering problems rather

Qualifications

• Experience in engineering and operating Identity Governance and Administration (IGA) platforms, ideally SailPoint IdentityIQ or equivalent.
• Identity lifecycle management including Joiner, Mover and Leaver (JML) processes.
• Identity data integration with HR systems, ideally Workday.
• Active Directory, LDAP and enterprise identity data management.
• Entitlement governance, including metadata, ownership and access models.
• Access request, approval workflows, access reviews, certifications and attestations.
• Identity provisioning and integration technologies, including SCIM, REST APIs and SPML.
• Coding, platform configuration and automation to improve identity services.

Responsibilities

• Improve Joiner, Mover, Leaver (JML) and organisational change processes.
• Enhance identity lifecycle automation across Workday, IdentityIQ and Active Directory.
• Build and maintain an entitlement catalogue including ownership, business purpose, risk classification and usage context.
• Improve access request workflows and access certification processes.
• Identify stale, orphaned and excessive access.
• Engineer improvements to SailPoint IdentityIQ workflows, provisioning and connectors.
• Reduce manual operational work through automation and self-service capabilities.
• Develop APIs and tooling to expose identity and entitlement data.
• Produce operational documentation, runbooks and audit evidence.
• Support compliance, security reviews and regulatory audits.
• Design and improve modern entitlement models including RBAC, ABAC and policy-based access control.

Skills

IGA platforms

SailPoint IdentityIQ

Identity lifecycle management

Workday integration

REST APIs

Automation

Tools

Active Directory

LDAP

SailPoint IdentityIQ

Job description

G-Research in London seeks an experienced IAM Platform Engineer to own authentication, identity federation, credential management and privileged access platforms. You will modernise identity infrastructure with scalable, standards-based IAM services that are secure, automated and easy for engineering teams to consume.

You will shape the future of authentication and privileged access within one of the world’s leading quantitative research firms, working on large-scale engineering problems rather