About this role
We are looking for an Engineering Manager to lead a team building and operating a secure, scalable and highly available identity platform for our digital products. The team owns critical identity capabilities such as authentication, authorisation, user and service identities, access control, session management, identity lifecycle, integration APIs and platform reliability. Lead, coach and grow a high-performing engineering team responsible for identity platform services. Hire, onboard, mentor and retain strong engineers; support career development through regular feedback, coaching and technical guidance. Create clarity for the team by translating business and platform goals into an actionable engineering roadmap. Foster an inclusive, accountable and collaborative engineering culture based on ownership, learning, respect and continuous improvement. Build strong engineering practices across the software delivery lifecycle. Provide hands-on technical leadership across architecture, design, code reviews, testing, release readiness, incident reviews and operational excellence. Identity Platform Ownership Own delivery and operation of core identity capabilities, including: Authentication and sign-in flows Authorisation and access-control services Role-based and attribute-based access models Service-to-service authentication Identity lifecycle and account management Token, session and credential-related services Identity APIs and integration patterns for product teams Ensure the platform is secure, resilient, scalable and easy for internal product teams to integrate with. Drive platform evolution from product-specific identity logic towards reusable, governed and well-documented identity services. Work with security, product, architecture and platform teams to ensure identity services support current and future business needs.