​Technical Lead – Identity (ForgeRock)

London (Hybrid, 2 Days Onsite) | Permanent | Banking & Financial Services

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We’re supporting a major consultancy delivering a large-scale identity and security transformation for a Tier-1 banking client. They are seeking an experienced Consultant to own the technical roadmap, reference architecture, and delivery across key IAM workstreams, including a major upgrade of the ForgeRock platform to version 8.

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This role is ideal for a hands-on identity expert who can operate across engineering, architecture, and delivery, while influencing senior stakeholders in a highly regulated, high-availability environment.

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Responsibilities include:

• Leading the end-to-end technical design for ForgeRock AM/IDM/DS solutions

• Defining upgrade and migration strategies for ForgeRock v8, including cutover, rollback, and NFR baselines

• Producing HLD/LLD, reference implementations, and guardrails aligned to bank architecture and security standards

• Driving onboarding and migration of identities from legacy platforms into ForgeRock

• Automating deployments, configuration, and testing using CI/CD and Infrastructure-as-Code

• Ensuring secure-by-design principles across authentication, session management, logging, and certificates

• Engaging senior stakeholders across architecture, governance, engineering, and security

• Mentoring engineers and championing best practice within the identity engineering function

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Key Skills:

• Deep hands-on expertise across ForgeRock AM, IDM, and DS

• Proven delivery of ForgeRock v8 upgrade programmes

• Strong identity onboarding/migration capability

• CI/CD, Terraform/Ansible, containerisation, scripting (Groovy/Java/JavaScript)

• Excellent understanding of OAuth2/OIDC/SAML and modern access control patterns

• Experience delivering within regulated financial services environments

• Strong communication, leadership, and stakeholder engagement skills

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This is an excellent opportunity to drive strategic identity programmes within a large banking environment, working closely with senior technical and security leaders to shape the future of access and authentication.