Senior Software Engineer - CIAM

Barclays Bank Plc; City Of London; On-site; GBP 70,000 - 90,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading financial institution in London is seeking a Senior Software Engineer for CIAM. This role focuses on developing innovative software solutions with a strong emphasis on identity and access management. The ideal candidate will have hands-on experience in IAM engineering and expertise in JavaScript and Java. The role involves collaboration across teams to ensure seamless integration of technologies, promoting code quality and securing application solutions.

Qualifications

• Strong hands-on IAM engineering background with broad expertise.
• Experience with (OAuth2, OIDC, PKI).
• Implement PingAM custom authentication trees.

Responsibilities

• Develop high-quality software solutions.
• Collaborate with cross-functional teams.
• Promote a culture of code quality.

Skills

IAM engineering expertise

JavaScript coding

Java coding

Single sign-on experience

API design

Problem-solving skills

Tools

ForgeRock

PingGateway

PingAM

PingIDM

PingDS

Job description

Overview

Investment Join us as a Senior Software Engineer for CIAM at Barclays, where you will bring to life a new digital platform capability, transforming and modernising our digital estate to build a market‑leading digital offering with customer experience at its heart. This is an exciting and key role, partnering with business‑aligned engineering and product teams, to ensure a collaborative team culture is at the heart of what we do.

To design, develop and improve software, utilising various engineering methodologies, that provides business, platform, and technology capabilities for our customers and colleagues.

Key Responsibilities

• Development and delivery of high‑quality software solutions by using industry‑aligned programming languages, frameworks, and tools, ensuring code is scalable, maintainable and optimised for performance.
• Collaborate cross‑functionally with product managers, designers and other engineers to define software requirements, devise solution strategies and ensure seamless integration and alignment with business objectives.
• Participate in code reviews and promote a culture of code quality and knowledge sharing.
• Stay informed of industry technology trends and innovations, and actively contribute to the organization’s technology communities to foster a culture of technical excellence and growth.
• Adhere to secure coding practices to mitigate vulnerabilities, protect sensitive data and ensure secure software solutions.
• Implement effective unit testing practices to ensure proper code design, readability and reliability.
• Contribute or set strategy, drive requirements and make recommendations for change; plan resources, budgets and policies; manage and maintain policies and processes; deliver continuous improvements and escalated breaches of policies and procedures.
• Define jobs and responsibilities, plan for the department’s future needs and operations, counsel employees on performance and contribute to employee pay decisions; lead specialist teams while balancing short‑ and long‑term goals.
• Demonstrate a clear set of leadership behaviours (Listen, Energise, Align, Develop) to create an environment for colleagues to thrive and deliver to a consistently excellent standard.
• As an individual contributor, serve as a subject‑matter expert in your discipline, guide technical direction, lead multi‑year assignments, coach less experienced specialists and influence long‑term organisational decisions.
• Advise key stakeholders, including functional leadership teams and senior management, on functional and cross‑functional areas of impact and alignment.
• Manage and mitigate risks through assessment, supporting the control and governance agenda.
• Demonstrate comprehensive understanding of the organization’s functions to contribute to achieving business goals.
• Collaborate with other business‑aligned support areas to keep up to speed with business activity and strategies.
• Create solutions based on sophisticated analytical thinking, selecting complex alternatives and adopting extensive research in problem‑solving processes.
• Build and maintain trusting relationships and partnerships with internal and external stakeholders, using influencing and negotiating skills to achieve outcomes.

Qualifications and Experience

• Strong hands‑on IAM engineering background with broad expertise across the IAM domain, including tooling, products, protocols, taxonomy, identity management, authentication, authorization and identity federation.
• Experience with single sign‑on, OAuth2, OIDC, PKI, PSD2 SCA and possession‑based authentication.
• ForgeRock developer experience with PingGateway, PingAM, PingIDM and PingDS, including JavaScript coding of PingGateway scripted routes and PingAM authentication tree nodes.
• Strong hands‑on coding across JavaScript or Java, comfortable designing extensible IAM APIs for seamless integration with external and internal applications.
• Implementing PingAM custom authentication trees, including downstream API integration with threat sensors (ThreatMetrix, BioCatch, etc.), adaptive authentication and step‑up authentication, and ability to implement data links between internal and external LDAPS, JDBC, SOAP, HTTPS and other data sources.
• Experience with PingGateway single‑sign‑on routes, dynamic proxies and filter chains, or implementing PingIDM‑based data links.
• Partnered with security, product, engineering and compliance teams to embed identity‑first principles into the DevSecOps lifecycle.
• Capacity to assess key critical skills relevant for success, such as risk and controls, change and transformation, business acumen, strategic thinking, and digital technology.
• Based out of our London office.

Values and Mindset

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.