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About the Role

We are seeking an experienced IAM Platform Engineer to own and evolve our authentication, identity federation, credential management, and privileged access platforms. You will modernize our identity infrastructure by replacing bespoke authentication patterns with scalable, standards-based IAM services that are secure, automated, and easy for engineering teams to consume. This role involves shaping the future of authentication and privileged access within a leading quantitative research firm, focusing on large-scale engineering problems.

Responsibilities

Improve Joiner, Mover, Leaver (JML) and organizational change processes.
Enhance identity lifecycle automation across Workday, IdentityIQ, and Active Directory.
Build and maintain a comprehensive entitlement catalogue, including ownership, business purpose, risk classification, approval models, and usage context.
Improve access request workflows and access certification processes.
Identify stale, orphaned, and excessive access.
Engineer improvements to SailPoint IdentityIQ workflows, provisioning, and connectors.
Reduce manual operational work through automation and self-service capabilities.
Develop APIs and tooling to expose identity and entitlement data.
Produce operational documentation, runbooks, and audit evidence.
Support compliance, security reviews, and regulatory audits.
Design and improve modern entitlement models, including RBAC, ABAC, and policy-based access control.

Requirements

Experience engineering and operating Identity Governance and Administration (IGA) platforms, ideally SailPoint IdentityIQ or an equivalent solution.
Experience with identity lifecycle management, including Joiner, Mover, and Leaver (JML) processes.
Experience with identity data integration with HR systems, ideally Workday.
Experience with Active Directory, LDAP, and enterprise identity data management.
Experience with entitlement governance, including entitlement metadata, ownership, and access models.
Experience with access request, approval workflows, access reviews, certifications, and attestations.
Experience with identity provisioning and integration technologies, including SCIM, REST APIs, and SPML.
Experience with coding, platform configuration, and automation to improve identity services and reduce manual operational effort.
Experience working collaboratively with engineering, security, and application teams to deliver scalable identity solutions.

Skills

Identity Governance and Administration (IGA)
SailPoint IdentityIQ
Identity lifecycle management
Joiner, Mover, Leaver (JML)
Workday
Active Directory
LDAP
Entitlement governance
RBAC
ABAC
SCIM
REST APIs
SPML
Automation
API development

Location

London

Work Type

Full-time

Experience Level

Experienced

Salary/Compensations

Highly competitive compensation plus annual discretionary bonus

Benefits

Lunch provided via Just Eat for Business
Dedicated barista bar
35 days’ annual leave
9% company pension contributions
Informal dress code
Excellent work-life balance
Comprehensive healthcare
Life assurance
Cycle-to-work scheme
Monthly company events

About the Company

We tackle the most complex problems in quantitative finance, by bringing scientific clarity to financial complexity.
From our London HQ, we unite world-class researchers and engineers in an environment that values deep exploration and methodical execution.
We’re building a world-class platform to amplify our teams’ most powerful ideas.
Security is foundational to this mission and must be delivered in a way that supports how our engineering teams build and operate complex systems at scale.

Equal Opportunity

G-Research is committed to cultivating and preserving an inclusive work environment.
We are an ideas-driven business and we place great value on diversity of experience and opinions.
We want to ensure that applicants receive a recruitment experience that enables them to perform at their best.
If you have a disability or special need that requires accommodation please let us know in the relevant section.