Adoption Software Engineer – Authorisation
Posted 3 days ago by Randstad Digital
Negotiable
Undetermined
Hybrid
London Area, United Kingdom
Summary: The Adoption Software Engineer – Authorisation role is a 6-month contract position focused on enhancing authorisation frameworks and promoting modern engineering practices within a global financial services provider. The position requires collaboration across various technology stacks and emphasizes cloud-native deployments and policy-as-code principles. The role is hybrid, requiring two days a week onsite in Glasgow, London, or Radbroke. Competitive pay is offered for this high-impact position.
Key Responsibilities:
- Champion the use of authorisation frameworks such as OPA, OPAL, or Styra.
- Promote policy-as-code principles and modern access control models (RBAC, ABAC, ReBAC).
- Work across the full tech stack (frontend, backend, data) in high-performance environments (24,000+ transactions/sec).
- Support and enhance cloud and hybrid deployments (primarily AWS; Azure/GCP also valuable).
- Contribute to containerisation efforts using OpenShift, Kubernetes, etc.
- Use SQL and data analytics to inform system design and engineering decisions.
Key Skills:
- Strong technical expertise in Java, with experience developing and maintaining high-throughput, production-quality systems at scale.
- Extensive knowledge of cloud platforms (especially AWS), including experience with hybrid deployment architectures.
- Solid practical understanding of container orchestration and application deployment pipelines.
- Direct experience with authorisation systems and policy enforcement tools, preferably using policy-as-code frameworks.
- Familiarity with authentication systems and their integration across broader technology environments (experience with Ping Identity is advantageous).
- Demonstrated ability to manage systems from development through to production support in enterprise settings.
- Comfortable working with data; experience in SQL and data analysis to inform engineering decisions is highly desirable.
Salary (Rate): undetermined
City: London
Country: United Kingdom
Working Arrangements: hybrid
IR35 Status: undetermined
Seniority Level: undetermined
Industry: IT
Adoption Software Engineer – Authorisation
6 Months Contract
Competitive Pay
Hybrid Working (Glasgow, London, or Radbroke – 2 days/week onsite)
My client, a leading global financial services provider, is seeking an Adoption Software Engineer – Authorisation to join a high-impact, global-scale platform team. This role focuses on promoting modern engineering practices and technology adoption around authorisation, policy-as-code, and cloud-native deployment across internal engineering teams.
Key Responsibilities:
- Champion the use of authorisation frameworks such as OPA, OPAL, or Styra.
- Promote policy-as-code principles and modern access control models (RBAC, ABAC, ReBAC).
- Work across the full tech stack (frontend, backend, data) in high-performance environments (24,000+ transactions/sec).
- Support and enhance cloud and hybrid deployments (primarily AWS; Azure/GCP also valuable).
- Contribute to containerisation efforts using OpenShift, Kubernetes, etc.
- Use SQL and data analytics to inform system design and engineering decisions.
Required Skills:
- Strong technical expertise in Java, with experience developing and maintaining high-throughput, production-quality systems at scale.
- Extensive knowledge of cloud platforms (especially AWS), including experience with hybrid deployment architectures.
- Solid practical understanding of container orchestration and application deployment pipelines.
- Direct experience with authorisation systems and policy enforcement tools, preferably using policy-as-code frameworks.
- Familiarity with authentication systems and their integration across broader technology environments (experience with Ping Identity is advantageous)
- Demonstrated ability to manage systems from development through to production support in enterprise settings.
- Comfortable working with data; experience in SQL and data analysis to inform engineering decisions is highly desirable.
This is a hybrid role (2 days/week onsite in Glasgow, London, or Radbroke). 6-month contract. Competitive pay. This is an urgent vacancy. If you are interested, please apply directly to the advert.