Senior Software Engineer for CIAM

Barclays; New Jersey; On-site; USD 170,000 - 230,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical

Dental

Vision

401(k)

Life Insurance

Paid Leave

Job summary

Barclays in Whippany, NJ is seeking a Senior Software Engineer for CIAM to design and modernize a digital platform capability. You will migrate legacy IAM platforms to aligned systems and collaborate with product and security teams to deliver secure, scalable solutions.

The role requires deep IAM expertise (OAuth2, OIDC, SSO), PingGateway/ PingIDM, and strong Java/JavaScript coding skills to build extensible APIs and integrations across internal and external systems.

Qualifications

• Senior IAM engineer with broad experience across IAM domains including tooling, products, protocols, and federation.
• Hands-on experience with SSO, OAuth2, OIDC, PKI, and PSD2 SCA knowledge.
• Proficiency in JavaScript or Java and designing extensible IAM APIs for integration.
• Experience implementing Ping Identity products and data links to external/internal data sources.

Responsibilities

• Develop, migrate, and optimize software for CIAM, ensuring scalable and secure solutions.
• Collaborate with security, product, and engineering teams to align with business objectives.
• Participate in code reviews and promote code quality and secure coding practices.
• Stay current with IAM trends and contribute to technology communities within Barclays.

Skills

IAM engineering

OAuth2/OIDC

SSO

Java/JavaScript coding

Extensibile IAM APIs

Security & risk awareness

Tools

PingGateway

PingAM

PingIDM

PingDS

ThreatMetrix

BioCatch

Job description

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.

To be successful as a Senior Software Engineer for CIAM, you should have:

• 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

Some other highly valued skills may include:

• 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

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.

This role is in Whippany, NJ office.

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.

Barclays employees are eligible for a suite of competitive and generous employee benefits, including medical, dental and vision coverage, 401(k), life insurance, and other paid leave for qualifying circumstances.

This position is eligible for an incentive award.

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 policy/ 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.

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.