Principal Engineer - Identity & Privacy
We are seeking a Principal Engineer – Identity & Privacy to provide technical leadership across the design, delivery, and evolution of secure identity platforms and privacy-focused capabilities. You will help shape the technical direction for authentication, authorisation, identity lifecycle management, consent, data protection, and access governance across a complex digital environment. Working at principal level, you will influence architecture decisions, establish engineering standards, and ensure that solutions are scalable, resilient, compliant, and straightforward for customers and internal teams to use.
Your responsibilities will include defining reference architectures and technical strategies; leading the delivery of identity and privacy initiatives from discovery through to production; and mentoring engineers and technical leaders. You will collaborate closely with product, security, legal, risk, compliance, and platform teams to translate regulatory and business requirements into practical engineering outcomes. You will also identify and manage technical risks, improve observability and operational resilience, support incident response, and promote secure-by-design and privacy-by-design principles throughout the software development lifecycle.
To succeed in this role, you will have significant experience designing and operating identity and access management solutions in large-scale or distributed environments. You will bring strong knowledge of authentication and authorisation standards and protocols, such as OAuth 2.0, OpenID Connect, SAML, SCIM, and multi-factor authentication, together with an understanding of privacy engineering, consent management, data minimisation, retention, and regulatory expectations. Experience with cloud platforms, modern software development practices, APIs, event-driven architectures, and infrastructure automation is highly desirable. You will be an effective communicator who can explain complex technical concepts clearly, influence decisions without relying on formal authority, and balance long-term strategy with pragmatic delivery. A strong commitment to security, customer trust, continuous improvement, and inclusive collaboration is essential.
Principal Engineer - Identity & Privacy
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