Job Title: IAM Engineer
Location: London/hybrid
Salary/Rate: Up to £500 per day INSIDE IR35
Start Date: 22/09/2025
Job Type: Contract

Company Introduction
We have an exciting opportunity now available with one of our sector-leading financial services clients! They are currently looking for a skilled IAM Engineer to join their team for a contract until the end of the year.

Required Skills/Experience

• Strong hands-on IAM engineer background with broad expertise across the IAM domain, including tooling, products, protocols, taxonomy, identity management, authentication, authorization and identity federation.
• Expertise 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
• Strong hands-on coding across either JavaScript or Java, and you must be comfortable in designing extensible IAM APIs for seamless integration with external and internal applications.
• Strong working knowledge of implementing PingAM custom authentication trees, including downstream API integration with threat sensors (ThreatMetrix, BioCatch, etc.), 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.

Desirable Skills/Experience
Although not essential, the following skills are desired by the client:

• 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-first principles into the DevSecOps lifecycle

If you are interested in this opportunity, please apply now with your updated CV in Microsoft Word/PDF format.

Disclaimer
Notwithstanding any guidelines given to level of experience sought, we will consider candidates from outside this range if they can demonstrate the necessary competencies.
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