Overview

Join Barclays as a Senior Software Engineer - CIAM in Glasgow (or London). You will bring to life 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, partnering with business-aligned engineering and product teams to ensure a collaborative team culture at the heart of what we do.

Location: Glasgow or London, United Kingdom. This is a full-time role.

Responsibilities

• Development and delivery of high-quality software solutions using industry-aligned programming languages, frameworks, and tools, ensuring 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 align with business objectives.


• Collaborate with peers, participate in code reviews, and promote a culture of code quality and knowledge sharing.


• Stay informed of industry technology trends and contribute to the organization’s technology communities to foster technical excellence and growth.


• Adhere to secure coding practices to mitigate vulnerabilities, protect sensitive data, and ensure secure software solutions.


• Implement effective unit testing practices to ensure proper code design, readability, and reliability.

Qualifications

• 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 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.

Role details

• Location: Glasgow or London, United Kingdom


• Seniority level: Mid-Senior level


• Employment type: Full-time


• Job function: Engineering and Information Technology


• Industries: Banking and Financial Services

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.