Senior Software Engineer for CIAM

barclays; United States; On-site; USD 170,000 - 230,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical coverage

Dental coverage

Vision coverage

401(k) matching

Incentive award

Job summary

Barclays is seeking a Senior Software Engineer for CIAM in Whippany, NJ to design, develop and modernize our digital platform. The role focuses on IAM strategies, secure coding, and cross-functional collaboration to deliver scalable software.

You will work with Ping Gateway/AM/IDM and other IAM tooling, while aligning with product and security teams to drive a resilient identity platform. This role requires experience in JavaScript/Java and SSO technologies.

Qualifications

• IAM engineering with experience in authentication, authorization and identity federation.
• Proficient in SSO, OAuth2 and OIDC concepts and PSD2 SCA knowledge.
• Ability to design extensible IAM APIs for integration with internal and external apps.

Responsibilities

• Develop and deliver high-quality software using appropriate languages, frameworks and tools.
• Collaborate with product managers, designers and engineers to define requirements and align with business objectives.
• Participate in code reviews and promote code quality and knowledge sharing.
• Stay updated on technology trends and contribute to technical communities.
• Adhere to secure coding practices to mitigate vulnerabilities and protect data.
• Implement effective unit testing to ensure code reliability.

Skills

IAM engineering

SSO

JavaScript/Java coding

Security best practices

Tools

PingGateway

PingAM

PingIDM

PingDS

ThreatMetrix

BioCatch

Job description

Job Description

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

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.

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.

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.