* Location: Remote-based, with the potential requirement to work from Sheffield 2-days per week if a new office policy is introduced.
We're partnering with a leading financial services client on a strategic Identity and Access Management transformation programme and are looking for an experienced MFA Engineer to help deliver modern authentication capabilities across a complex enterprise environment.
This is a hands-on engineering role requiring strong experience across MFA, IAM and authentication technologies, alongside the ability to work effectively with architecture, cybersecurity, application and infrastructure teams.
Key Requirements:
* Strong hands-on experience engineering MFA and SSO within enterprise IAM environments
* Deep understanding of modern authentication and federation protocols, particularly OIDC/OAuth2 and SAML
* Experience with at least one enterprise Identity Provider platform
* Strong understanding of authentication vs authorisation, identity lifecycle and trust boundaries
* Working knowledge of PKI, certificates, TLS and key management
* Experience operating production IAM services, including monitoring, incident and change management
* Strong communication and stakeholder management skills, with the confidence to challenge and influence technical decisions
* Ability to work across architecture, cybersecurity, infrastructure and application teams
Desirable:
* Entra ID / Azure AD experience
* FIDO2/WebAuthn and phishing-resistant MFA experience
* PowerShell and/or Python scripting and API experience
* Zero Trust and adaptive/risk-based authentication knowledge
* PAM and privileged authentication experience
* Cloud and hybrid identity experience across Azure, AWS or GCP
* Experience in financial services or other regulated environments
* Relevant IAM, security or Microsoft Identity certifications
This is a key opportunity to play a hands-on role in a major enterprise IAM transformation, helping shape and deliver the future of authentication across a complex financial services environment
Salary description
£550.00 - £570.00 per day