Job Description
Senior Software Engineer IAM
Glasgow
As a Barclays Senior Software Engineer IAM, you will assist in accelerating 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, and be partnering with business aligned engineering and product teams, to ensure a collaborative team culture is at the heart of what we do. Our Team empowers innovation, underpinned by engineering excellence and a culture of teamwork, learning and continuous improvement.
Barclays is one of the world's largest and most respected financial institutions, established in 1690, with a legacy of success, quality and innovation. We offer careers that provide endless opportunity – helping millions of individuals and businesses thrive, and creating financial and digital solutions that the world now takes for granted
At Barclays, we offer a hybrid working experience that blends the positives of working alongside colleagues at our onsite locations, together with working from home. We have a structured approach where colleagues work at an onsite location on fixed, ‘anchor’, days of the week, for a minimum of two days a week or more, as set by the business area (or nearest equivalent if working part-time hours). Please discuss the working pattern requirements for the role you are applying for with the hiring manager. Please note that as we continue to embed our hybrid working environment, we remain in a test and learn phase, which means that working arrangements may be subject to change on reasonable notice to ensure we meet the needs of our business.
What will you be doing?
• Working closely in the design, development and implementation of a centralised secure, scalable and efficient IAM platform
• Helping with the creation and maintenance of the technical roadmap for the evolution of the group wide IAM platform
• Coaching, working with and facilitating colleagues and engineers to design, build and maintain the platform, following agile software development principles
• Ensuring the highest levels of platform security and compliance are adhered to
• Providing feedback and action activities to mature and improve operations and processes within the team and more broadly across the function
• Engaging with partners across the bank and contributing to digital journeys innovation using the platform’s IAM capabilities, demonstrating inner source culture
• Demonstrating hands-on complex problem solving abilities through creation of innovative solutions using multiple components and development techniques
What we’re looking for:
• Solid experience in full stack development web and mobile front-end technologies such as React, Java, APIs & microservices, PostgreSQL, data structures, workflow
• Knowledge of Site Reliability Engineering, automation, observability, incident management, resilience, disaster recovery, high availability, documentation
• IAM engineering experience, authentication, authorisation, single sign-on, multi-factor authentication, user lifecycle management, hands on CI/CD approaches and technologies
• Experience in Ping Identity/ForgeRock (product platform experience, system integration, security features, extensions)
Skills that will help you in the role:
• Experience in DevSecOps, secure coding best practices, defensive programming, security testing, data security, network security, cloud security, security compliance and regulations
• Knowledge of Infrastructure as Code, Ansible, Terraform and Containerisation, Docker, Kubernetes
• Experience in AWS and Azure cloud component and services integration (RDS /Azure DB, S3/ Azure Blob)
• Experience of Authentication and Biometric system design, implementation and standards, FIDO, NIST,ITL, security token engineering (JSON Web Tokens JWT /Password Authentication)
Where will you be working?
Our new state-of-the-art Campus, right in the heart of Glasgow is a hub of creative collaboration. A place where everyone can bring their true selves to work and reach their full potential. Home to 5,000 of our colleagues, our Tradeston campus will support the community in more ways than one - by creating thousands of new career opportunities and celebrating local artists. A short walk from Central Station on the south of the Clyde, it will be a key location for the Barclays business that will deepen our ties with the city and its communities.
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