Job Specifications
Senior Software Engineer
£55,000 - £94,000
Hybrid - Knutsford, Cheshire
Looking for an experienced Identity and Access Management (IAM) engineer with comprehensive knowledge across the IAM landscape-including tools, technologies, protocols, identity governance, authentication, authorisation, and federation strategies.
Essential Skills:
A robust background in IAM engineering, with experience spanning various IAM systems, security protocols, product ecosystems, and taxonomy.
Proficiency in modern authentication standards and frameworks such as OAuth2, OIDC, PKI, and PSD2 SCA, along with experience in possession-based authentication. Familiarity with ForgeRock technologies is essential, including development experience in PingGateway, PingAM, PingIDM, and PingDS. Hands-on experience with JavaScript for Scripting PingGateway routes and PingAM authentication nodes is also expected.
Strong coding skills in JavaScript or Java, with the ability to architect scalable IAM APIs for seamless integration with both internal and third-party applications.
Practical experience in configuring PingAM custom authentication trees. This includes integration with risk engines and behavioral biometrics (eg, ThreatMetrix, BioCatch), implementing adaptive and step-up authentication, and establishing secure data connections using LDAPS, JDBC, SOAP, HTTPS, and other protocols.
Desirable Skills:
Previous success in configuring PingGateway single sign-on routes, dynamic proxies, and filters, or in implementing data links using PingIDM.
A collaborative mindset and prior experience working closely with security, engineering, product, and compliance teams to champion identity-centric principles across the DevSecOps pipeline.
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About the Company
At Hydrogen Group, we enable people to live healthier, happier, more fulfilling and more successful lives in a rapidly changing world. We do this every day by giving people the tools they need to thrive. We know what works for one person, or business, won’t suit another, but if we can truly understand what type of people will thrive in your business, or what you need to Thrive in your own role, we’ll help you find that person or organisation to help you do just that.
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