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Core Competencies
Role fitCore Competencies
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Demonstrates strong leadership in managing engineering teams, with a focus on authentication and authorization strategies, while ensuring high security and compliance standards. Proven ability to drive technical migrations and modernizations across legacy and enterprise architectures.
Highest-signal resume keywords
Engineering ManagementAuthentication And Authorisation StandardsIdentity Platforms (Amazon Cognito, Auth0, Stytch)Stakeholder ManagementClear Communication
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Hard Skills
AuthenticationAuthorisationOAuthSAMLOIDCTechnical MigrationLegacy System UpdateOperational ExcellencePerformance SupportSoftware Architecture
Soft Skills
CoachingTeam LeadershipBias For ActionCommunicationCollaboration
Industry Keywords
SecurityComplianceEnterprise ArchitectureSMBTechnical Debt
About the role
Key responsibilities & impact- Own the vision, strategy and execution roadmap for identity, authentication and authorisation across SMB and Enterprise
- Drive delivery and outcomes for the Authentication & Authorisation team
- Roll out a new identity platform across Enterprise offerings
- Define and execute a migration strategy between the SMB legacy service and Enterprise architecture
- Update legacy authentication services while reducing risk and technical debt
- Maintain high security, compliance, performance and trust
- Partner with Product, Security, Compliance and Core Platform teams to align priorities and manage dependencies
- Guide the team through complex technical trade-offs
- Improve operational excellence, quality and ways of working
- Hire, coach and grow a high-performing team of 6–10 software engineers
- Report to the VP of Engineering
- Collaborate across the wider Backend & Infrastructure group
- Strengthen delivery rhythm and operational excellence
- Deliver migration and modernisation milestones and clarify a sustainable path between SMB and Enterprise architectures
Requirements
What you’ll need- Solid experience as an Engineering Manager or equivalent people-lead role, including coaching and performance support
- Strong hands-on technical depth in authentication and authorisation domains and standards such as OAuth, SAML and OIDC
- Experience with modern identity platforms such as Amazon Cognito, Auth0 or Stytch
- Architectural credibility and a track record of guiding teams through technical complexity, migrations and legacy constraints
- Strong stakeholder management across engineering, product and risk-focused partners
- Clear and consistent communication
- Bias for action and ability to lead through ambiguity
- Experience as a software architect or staff-level engineer before moving into people leadership is nice to have
- Experience in security- or compliance-sensitive domains is nice to have
- Experience scaling teams through hiring and clear ownership is nice to have
- Application must be submitted in English
- Must have the legal right to work in the selected location
Benefits
Comp & perks- Your own Pleo card
- Catered meals or a lunch allowance for work days
- Comprehensive private healthcare, with coverage options including Vitality, Alan or Médis depending on location
- 25 days of holiday plus public holidays
- Hybrid and fully remote working options for team members
- Option to purchase 5 additional holiday days through salary sacrifice
- Free mental health and well-being support through MyndUp
- Paid parental leave