At a Glance
- Tasks: Enhance identity lifecycle automation and improve access workflows in a dynamic finance environment.
- Company: Join G-Research, a leader in quantitative finance with a focus on innovation.
- Benefits: Competitive pay, 35 days leave, healthcare, and monthly events for a balanced work-life.
- Other info: Inclusive culture that values diverse ideas and offers excellent career growth.
- Why this job: Make a real impact on security solutions while collaborating with top-tier engineers.
- Qualifications: Experience with Identity Governance platforms and strong coding skills are essential.
The predicted salary is between 70000 - 90000 £ per year.
Overview
We tackle the most complex problems in quantitative finance, by bringing scientific clarity to financial complexity.
From our London HQ, we unite world‑class researchers and engineers in an environment that values deep exploration and methodical execution – because the best ideas take time to evolve.
Together we’re building a world‑class platform to amplify our teams’ most powerful ideas.
Security is foundational to this mission and must be delivered in a way that supports how our engineering teams build and operate complex systems at scale.
Take the next step in your career.
Key Responsibilities
- Improve Joiner, Mover, Leaver (JML) and organisational change processes
- Enhance identity lifecycle automation across Workday, Identity IQ and Active Directory
- Build and maintain a comprehensive entitlement catalogue including ownership, business purpose, risk classification, approval models and usage context
- Improve access request workflows and access certification processes
- Identify stale, orphaned and excessive access
- Engineer improvements to Sail Point Identity IQ workflows, provisioning and connectors
- Reduce manual operational work through automation and self‑service capabilities
- Develop APIs and tooling to expose identity and entitlement data
- Produce operational documentation, runbooks and audit evidence
- Support compliance, security reviews and regulatory audits
- Design and improve modern entitlement models including RBAC, ABAC and policy‑based access control
Qualifications
- Experience in engineering and operating Identity Governance and Administration (IGA) platforms, ideally Sail Point Identity IQ or an equivalent solution
- Identity lifecycle management, including Joiner, Mover and Leaver (JML) processes
- Identity data integration with HR systems, ideally Workday
- Active Directory, LDAP and enterprise identity data management
- Entitlement governance, including entitlement metadata, ownership and access models
- Access request, approval workflows, access reviews, certifications and attestations
- Identity provisioning and integration technologies, including SCIM, REST APIs and SPML
- Coding, platform configuration and automation to improve identity services and reduce manual operational effort
- Working collaboratively with engineering, security and application teams to deliver scalable identity solutions
Benefits
- Highly competitive compensation plus annual discretionary bonus
- Lunch provided via Just Eat for Business and dedicated barista bar
- 35 days’ annual leave
- 9% company pension contributions
- Informal dress code and excellent work‑life balance
- Comprehensive healthcare and life assurance
- Cycle‑to‑work scheme
- Monthly company events
- Inclusion & EEO Statement
G-Research is committed to cultivating and preserving an inclusive work environment.
We are an ideas‑driven business and we place great value on diversity of experience and opinions.
We want to ensure that applicants receive a recruitment experience that enables them to perform at their best.
If you have a disability or special need that requires accommodation, please let us know in the relevant section.
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At G-Research, we pride ourselves on being an exceptional employer, offering a dynamic work culture that fosters innovation and collaboration among world-class researchers and engineers. Located in London, our team enjoys highly competitive compensation, generous annual leave, and a strong commitment to work/life balance, alongside unique perks like a dedicated barista bar and monthly company events. We are dedicated to employee growth, providing opportunities to work on cutting-edge security systems while ensuring an inclusive environment for all.
