Principal Engineer IAM- XDP

Job Description Join us as a Principal Engineer IAM, where you will be supporting the acceleration of a new digital platform capability, transforming and modernising our digital estate to build a market-leading digital offering with customer experience at its heart. You will be partnering with business aligned engineering and product teams, to ensure a collaborative team culture is at the heart of what we do. To Be Successful In This Role You Should Have - Strong hands-on experience in the configuration, deployment and running of ForgeRock COTS based IAM solutions (Ping Gateway, Ping AM, Ping IDM, Ping DS), including designing and implementing cloud-based, scalable, and resilient IAM solutions for large corporate organisations. - Experience with IAM engineering experience across authentication, authorisation, single sign-on, multi-factor authentication, identity lifecycle management, OAuth2.0, OpenID Connect, SAML (Security Assertion Markup Language) and policy management. - Expertise with JavaScript, Java, Python, and must be comfortable with API and microservices development. - Strong working knowledge of Site Reliability Engineering principles. - Experience with Cloud computing (AWS is essential, Azure is a plus). Some Other Highly Desirable Skills Include - Experience in DevSecOps required - knowledge of Product Operating Model. - Knowledge of Infrastructure as a Code tooling (Chef is essential, Ansible is a plus), containerization. - Knowledge of authentication and biometric system design is highly desired. - Open-source experience. 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 will be based out of our Pune office. Purpose of the role To drive technical excellence and innovation by leading the design and implementation of robust software solutions, providing mentorship to engineering teams, fostering cross-functional collaboration, and contributing to strategic planning to ensure the delivery of high-quality solutions aligned with business objectives. Accountabilities - Provision of guidance and expertise to engineering teams to ensure alignment with best practices and foster a culture of technical excellence. - Contribution to strategic planning by aligning technical decisions with business goals, anticipating future technology trends, and providing insights to optimize product roadmaps. - Design and implementation of complex, scalable, and maintainable software solutions, considering long-term viability and business objectives. - Mentoring and coaching to junior and mid-level engineers to foster professional growth and knowledge sharing, elevating the overall skillset and capabilities of the organization. - Collaboration with business partners, product managers, designers, and other stakeholders to translate business requirements into technical solutions and ensure a cohesive approach to product development. - Innovation within the organization by identifying and incorporating new technologies, methodologies, and industry practices into the engineering process. 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 escalate 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.