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About the Role Our client is building customer identity and access infrastructure for its platform and product teams. The team owns sign-up and sign-in, API credentials, enterprise SSO and federation, orgs, workspaces, roles and entitlements, authorisation and policy capabilities, and emerging non-human and agent identity.\nThe role provides frontline technical leadership while staying close enough to the systems to materially raise engineering quality through architecture decisions, code review, debugging, incident response, migrations, and prototypes when needed. The team expects direct communication and a flat operating style. Key Responsibilities\nOwn the technical vision, architecture, and roadmap for identity and access capabilities.\nManage, coach, and grow a team of engineers while setting a high engineering-quality bar.\nLead technical designs, review critical code paths, help debug difficult production issues, and participate in incident response.\nGuide major migrations, cutovers, rollback planning, and architectural change.\nPartner with Security, Product, Risk, Onboarding, and the engineering teams that integrate with identity.\nTurn competing requests into a clear sequence of work and explain tradeoffs directly.\nImprove operational readiness, reliability, developer experience, and engineering practices across the platform.\nWhat You Will Bring\n3+ years directly managing software engineers, including hiring, coaching, performance management, and developing senior engineers (around 2 years considered where technical depth is exceptional).\nProduction experience building or technically leading authentication, authorisation, identity, access-control, or adjacent security-sensitive platform capabilities.\nRecent architecture or design ownership, with continued proximity to code, design reviews, production debugging, and incidents.\nProactive security judgment around access, privilege, authentication, authorisation, and blast-radius risk.\nExperience operating systems with real users, multi-team dependencies, reliability requirements, and meaningful security consequences.\nWorking knowledge of OAuth 2.x, OpenID Connect, SAML, federation, enterprise SSO, session and token design, RBAC or ABAC, and fine-grained authorisation.\nAI-forward engineering judgment, using AI within a disciplined workflow while independently validating correctness.\nBackgrounds We Would Love to Hear From\nIdentity product or platform EMs from identity providers or customer-identity companies.\nHigh-scale product identity EMs who owned customer identity, account security, federation, or access control at 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