Wolters Kluwer Media/Entertainment

Principal Engineer, Identity and Access Management

London, United Kingdom Hybrid Full-time
  • Location: GBR - London, Canada Square
  • Lead the design and engineering of a cloud-agnostic Identity and Authorization Platform that secures users, services, APIs, AI agents, and data across a multi-tenant SaaS platform.
  • Unlike traditional IAM roles, this position focuses heavily on authorization architecture.

Responsibilities

Lead architecture and implementation of

Authentication

Authorization

Identity federation

Fine-grained access control

Own architecture for

ACL

Policy engines

Relationship graphs

Design authorization for

Web applications

Mobile

AI Gateway

Agent runtime

MCP tools

Knowledge Graph

Vector stores

Design authorization decision architecture

PEP ↓

PDP ↓

Policy Store ↓

Relationship Store↓

Decision

Lead adoption of

OpenFGA / SpiceDB

Open Policy Agent (OPA)

Zanzibar concepts

Work with platform teams on

API Gateway

AI Gateway

Kubernetes

Service Mesh

  • mTLS
  • Essential experience
  • 10+ years engineering
  • 5+ years security platform experience

Demonstrable experience building authorization engines using

RBAC

ReBAC

ABAC

ACL

Experience designing authorization for

Multi-tenant SaaS

Microservices

APIs

Experience with

OAuth2

OpenID Connect

JWT

SAML

Strong distributed systems experience

Nice to have

Google Zanzibar

OpenFGA

SpiceDB

OPA

Cedar

Envoy

Istio

SPIFFE/SPIRE

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