Principal Engineer, Identity and Access Management
Wolters Kluwer1 day ago
London, United KingdomStaff+
Responsibilities
- Lead the architecture and implementation of authentication, authorization, identity federation, and fine-grained access control.
- Own architecture for RBAC, ReBAC, ABAC, ACLs, policy engines, and relationship graphs.
- Design authorization for web applications, mobile applications, APIs, microservices, AI Gateway, agent runtime, MCP tools, Knowledge Graph, and vector stores.
- Design authorization decision architecture involving policy enforcement points, policy decision points, policy stores, relationship stores, and decisions.
- Lead adoption of OpenFGA, SpiceDB, Cedar, Open Policy Agent, and Zanzibar concepts.
- Partner with platform teams on API Gateway, AI Gateway, Kubernetes, service mesh, and mTLS.
Requirements
- 10+ years of engineering experience.
- 5+ years of security platform experience.
- Demonstrated experience building authorization engines using RBAC, ReBAC, ABAC, and ACL.
- Experience designing authorization for multi-tenant SaaS platforms, microservices, and APIs.
- Experience with OAuth2, OpenID Connect, JWT, and SAML.
- Strong distributed-systems experience.
- Google Zanzibar, OpenFGA, SpiceDB, OPA, Cedar, Envoy, Istio, and SPIFFE/SPIRE experience is preferred.
Benefits
- Applicants may be required to appear onsite at a Wolters Kluwer office as part of the recruitment process.
- Candidates must participate in interviews without AI tools or external prompts; AI-generated responses or third-party support during interviews may result in disqualification.
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About Wolters Kluwer
Wolters Kluwer builds subscription software, data, and workflow solutions for professionals in healthcare, tax and accounting, legal and regulatory, finance and compliance, and ESG. Its portfolio spans SaaS applications and expert content that support compliance, decision-making, and operational processes. Founded in 1836 and headquartered in Alphen aan den Rijn, the Netherlands, it is publicly traded on Euronext Amsterdam (WKL) and reported 2025 annual revenue of €6.1 billion.