Identity & Access Management Engineer

Synechron; Sheffield; On-site; GBP 60,000 - 90,000; Full time

Job summary

Synechron is seeking an experienced IAM Engineer to design, develop, test, and support modern Identity & Access Management capabilities. You will deliver secure, scalable identity services as part of a large-scale transformation, working in an Agile engineering team with architects, security, and platform partners.

You will build and operate enterprise IAM solutions, including authentication, federation, lifecycle management, and secure integrations with third-party services.

Qualifications

• Experience designing and delivering identity and access management (IAM) solutions.
• Experience with cloud-native identity services and integration with enterprise platforms.
• Familiarity with authentication (SAML, OIDC), federation, and identity lifecycle management.

Responsibilities

• Develop and maintain cloud-native identity services.
• Build APIs, microservices, and event-driven integrations.
• Implement authentication, authorisation, federation, and identity lifecycle capabilities.
• Develop secure integrations with enterprise identity platforms and third-party services.
• Support Identity solutions for Human, Agent, and Workload identities.
• Contribute to Infrastructure as Code, CI/CD, and deployment automation.
• Participate in code reviews, design reviews, testing, and troubleshooting.
• Produce technical documentation and runbooks.
• Contribute to Agile ceremonies and continuous improvement.

Skills

IAM

Cloud-native

APIs

CI/CD

Security

Tools

AWS

Azure AD

Okta

Job description

Synechron is a global technology consulting firm that helps leading organizations accelerate digital transformation through innovation, expertise, and agility. With more than 16,500 professionals across around 60 offices in over 20 countries, we combine deep industry knowledge with advanced capabilities in AI, cloud, cybersecurity, and data engineering. Our regional teams, supported by strategic delivery centers, provide scalable, cost-efficient solutions tailored to local markets. Through our award-winning Synechron FinLabs accelerators and strategic partnerships with AWS, Microsoft, Databricks, Salesforce, and ServiceNow, we enable clients to innovate fast and lead with confidence. For more information on the company, please visit our website or LinkedIn community.

Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion:

Diversity & Inclusion are fundamental to our culture, and Synechron is proud to be an equal opportunity workplace and an affirmative-action employer. Our Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion (DEI) initiative ‘Same Difference’ is committed to fostering an inclusive culture – promoting equality, diversity and an environment that is respectful to all. We strongly believe that a diverse workforce helps build stronger, successful businesses as a global company. We encourage applicants from across diverse backgrounds, race, ethnicities, religion, age, marital status, gender, sexual orientations, or disabilities to apply. We empower our global workforce by offering flexible workplace arrangements, mentoring, internal mobility, learning and development programs, and more. All employment decisions at Synechron are based on business needs, job requirements and individual qualifications, without regard to the applicant’s gender, gender identity, sexual orientation, race, ethnicity, disabled or veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by law.

Job Description:

We are seeking an experienced IAM Engineer to design, develop, test, and support modern Identity & Access Management platform capabilities. The role will focus on delivering secure, scalable, and resilient identity services as part of a large-scale transformation programme.

You will work within an Agile engineering team and collaborate closely with architects, security teams, platform engineers, product owners, business stakeholders, and technology partners to build and operate enterprise IAM solutions.

Key Responsibilities

• Develop and maintain cloud-native identity services
• Build APIs, microservices, and event-driven integrations
• Implement authentication, authorisation, federation, and identity lifecycle capabilities
• Develop secure integrations with enterprise identity platforms and third-party services
• Support Human Identity, Agent Identity, and Workload Identity solutions
• Build Policy-as-Code integrations and authorisation services
• Contribute to Infrastructure as Code, CI/CD, and deployment automation
• Participate in code reviews, design reviews, testing, and troubleshooting
• Support deployment, monitoring, logging, observability, and production issues
• Produce technical documentation and operational runbooks
• Contribute to Agile ceremonies and continuous improvement initiatives