Impress employers and recruiters.
Choose from hundreds of resume examples.

Target Resume Now

About the Role

The Identity and Access Management (IAM) Engineering Manager will lead the transformation of G-Research's IAM platforms, owning the strategy, engineering direction, and operational excellence. This role involves simplifying architecture, modernizing identity services, and ensuring secure, scalable identity controls across the organization, while also building and developing a high-performing IAM engineering team.

Responsibilities

Owning and delivering the firm's IAM strategy and roadmap
Driving a unified identity and permissions model, balancing security, usability and operational management
Defining standards for authentication, authorisation, privileged access and identity lifecycle management
Leading the design, operation and modernisation of scalable IAM platforms
Driving automation across identity lifecycle management and access governance
Ensuring IAM services are secure, reliable, auditable and operationally resilient
Leading mentoring and developing a high-performing IAM engineering team
Partnering with engineering, security, risk and audit teams to influence technical direction
Defining and tracking platform health and control maturity metrics
Building a best-in-class identity control plane with consistent, fine-grained access controls across the technology estate

Requirements

Proven experience leading engineering teams and delivering platforms at scale
A strong background in IAM, security or platform engineering
Deep knowledge of authentication, authorisation, federation, MFA, RBAC or ABAC, PAM and directory services
Experience designing and operating enterprise identity platforms
Strong architectural judgement and experience driving transformation
Familiarity with SAML, OIDC, OAuth2, SCIM and identity governance
The ability to balance security, usability and operational resilience
A strong communicator who can influence technical and non-technical stakeholders
Ownership, pragmatism and a bias for simplicity, scalability and continuous improvement

Skills

IAM
Security
Platform Engineering
Authentication
Authorisation
Federation
MFA
RBAC
ABAC
PAM
Directory Services
SAML
OIDC
OAuth2
SCIM
Identity Governance

Location

London

Work Type

Full-time

Experience Level

Manager
Senior

Salary/Compensations

Highly competitive compensation plus annual discretionary bonus

Benefits

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

About the Company

G-Research tackles the most complex problems in quantitative finance by bringing scientific clarity to financial complexity.
They unite world-class researchers and engineers in an environment that values deep exploration and methodical execution.
They are building a world-class platform to amplify the teams’ most powerful ideas.
Security is foundational to this mission and must be delivered in a way that supports how 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