Senior Software Engineer for CIAM

2755 Barclays Services Corpor; Hanover Township (NJ); On-site; USD 170,000 - 230,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical coverage

Dental and vision

401(k)

Life insurance

Paid leave

Incentive award

Job summary

Barclays is seeking a Senior Software Engineer for CIAM to bring to life a new digital platform capability. You will modernize digital estate and migrate legacy platforms to aligned platforms and applications, working cross-functionally with stakeholders and product teams to foster a collaborative culture.

The role demands IAM expertise, SSO/OAuth2/OIDC, and ForgeRock experience; you will design extensible IAM APIs, implement secure coding practices, and contribute to DevSecOps integration.

Qualifications

• Strong IAM background across the IAM domain, including tooling and protocols.
• Experience with single sign-on, OAuth2, OIDC, PKI and PSD2 SCA knowledge.

Responsibilities

• Lead CIAM initiatives and platform migrations, ensuring secure and scalable solutions.
• Collaborate with security, product, engineering and compliance teams to embed IAM security into the SDLC.
• Design extensible IAM APIs and integrate with external/internal systems.

Skills

IAM engineer background

SSO/OAuth2/OIDC

ForgeRock

JavaScript/Java coding

PingAM/PingGateway/PingIDM

Tools

ForgeRock

PingGateway

PingAM

PingIDM

PingDS

LDAPS/JDBC

Job description

Job Description

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

Accountabilities

Development and delivery of high-quality software solutions by using industry aligned programming languages, frameworks, and tools. Ensuring that code is scalable, maintainable, and optimized for performance. Cross-functional collaboration with product managers, designers, and other engineers to define software requirements, devise solution strategies, and ensure seamless integration and alignment with business objectives. Collaboration with peers, 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. Adherence to secure coding practices to mitigate vulnerabilities, protect sensitive data, and ensure secure software solutions. Implementation of effective unit testing practices to ensure proper code design, readability, and reliability.

Vice President Expectations

To contribute or set strategy, drive requirements and make recommendations for change. Plan resources, budgets, and policies; manage and maintain policies/ processes; deliver continuous improvements and elevate breaches of policies/procedures.. If managing a team, they define jobs and responsibilities, planning for the department’s future needs and operations, counselling employees on performance and contributing to employee pay decisions/changes. They may also lead a number of specialists to influence the operations of a department, in alignment with strategic as well as tactical priorities, while balancing short and long term goals and ensuring that budgets and schedules meet corporate requirements.. If the position has leadership responsibilities, People Leaders are expected to demonstrate a clear set of leadership behaviours to create an environment for colleagues to thrive and deliver to a consistently excellent standard. The four LEAD behaviours are: L – Listen and be authentic, E – Energise and inspire, A – Align across the enterprise, D – Develop others.. OR for an individual contributor, they will be a subject matter expert within own discipline and will guide technical direction. They will lead collaborative, multi-year assignments and guide team members through structured assignments, identify the need for the inclusion of other areas of specialisation to complete assignments. They will train, guide and coach less experienced specialists and provide information affecting long term profits, organisational risks and strategic 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, in support of the control and governance agenda. Demonstrate leadership and accountability for managing risk and strengthening controls in relation to the work your team does. Demonstrate comprehensive understanding of the organisation functions to contribute to achieving the goals of the business. Collaborate with other areas of work, for business aligned support areas to keep up to speed with business activity and the business strategies. Create solutions based on sophisticated analytical thought comparing and selecting complex alternatives. In-depth analysis with interpretative thinking will be required to define problems and develop innovative solutions. Adopt and include the outcomes of extensive research in problem solving processes. Seek out, build and maintain trusting relationships and partnerships with internal and external stakeholders in order to accomplish key business objectives, using influencing and negotiating skills to achieve outcomes.

Barclays Values & 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.

Senior Software Engineer for CIAM

Join us as a Senior Software Engineer for CIAM at Barclays, where you will bring to life a new digital platform capability. You will be transforming and modernizing our digital estate to build a market-leading digital offering for customer experience. To be successful in this role you will help with the migration of legacy platforms to strategically aligned platforms and applications. You will work cross-functionally with stakeholders and teams. Together empowering partnership with business-aligned engineering and product teams to ensure a collaborative team culture is at the heart of what we do.

Key Responsibilities & Skills

• Considerable IAM engineer background with broad experience across the IAM domain, including tooling, products, protocols, taxonomy, authentication, authorization, and identity federation
• Experience with single sign on, OAuth2, OIDC, PKI, PSD2 SCA knowledge 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
• Considerable coding across either JavaScript or Java, and you should be comfortable in designing extensible IAM APIs for seamless integration with external and internal applications
• Considerable working knowledge of implementing PingAM custom authentication trees, including downstream API integration with threat sensors (ThreatMetrix, BioCatch), adaptive authentication and step-up authentication, including the ability to implement data links between internal and external LDAPS, JDBC, SOAP, HTTPS, and other data sources

Additional Highly Valued Skills

• Experience in implementing PingGateway single-sign-on routes, dynamic proxies, and filter chains, or implementing PingIDM based data links
• Experience in partnering with security, product, engineering, and compliance teams, to embed identity-centric security into the DevSecOps lifecycle
• Evaluating and problem-solving skills to address CIAM

Assessment Criteria

You may be assessed on the key critical skills relevant for success in role, such as risk and controls, change and transformation, business acumen strategic thinking and digital and technology, as well as job-specific technical skills.

Location

This role is in Whippany, NJ office.

Compensation

Minimum Salary: $170,000 Maximum Salary: $230,000

The minimum and maximum salary/rate information above include only base salary or base hourly rate. It does not include any other type of compensation or benefits that may be available.

Benefits

• medical
• dental and vision coverage
• 401(k)
• life insurance
• other paid leave
• incentive award

Company Culture

Our Work Experience is the combination of everything that's unique about us: our culture, our core values, our company meetings, our commitment to sustainability, our recognition programs, but most importantly, it's our people. Our employees are self-disciplined, hard working, curious, trustworthy, humble, and truthful. They make choices according to what is best for the team, they live for opportunities to collaborate and make a difference, and they make us the #1 Top Workplace in the area.