Identity and Access Management Lead

The role

You will own the firm's global identity and access security capability. You will set strategy, lead programmes, and work with technology to ensure secure and automated solutions for the engineering environment.

What you will do

• Lead QRT's IAM and IGA strategy, architecture, roadmap, and delivery.
• Develop identity lifecycle management, application onboarding, entitlement governance, and access certification.
• Redesign Active Directory groups, legacy permissions, and access models.
• Develop role- and attribute-based access models and improve automation for joiner, mover, and leaver processes.
• Own the global PAM programme and the development and adoption of PrivX.
• Redesign privileged access to production, infrastructure, cloud, and trading-critical environments.
• Own the enterprise secrets-management programme and HashiCorp Vault platform.
• Lead authentication and authorisation programmes across the workforce, infrastructure, cloud, and internally developed applications.
• Lead and develop the IAM team and manage specialist partners and vendors.
• Support security incidents, audits, and regulatory reviews involving identity or access.

Required qualifications

• Strong experience leading IAM, IGA, PAM, or identity-security engineering in a complex technology environment.
• Deep knowledge of identity governance, privileged access, secrets management, authentication, and authorisation.
• Practical experience with SailPoint, Active Directory, Entra ID, Okta, PAM technologies, and HashiCorp Vault.
• Experience redesigning production access and implementing least-privilege and time-bound access models.
• Strong understanding of human, service, workload, and machine identities.
• Experience delivering SSO, MFA, passwordless authentication, and modern application-authorisation models.
• Strong technical capability across APIs, automation, scripting, and system integration.
• A good understanding of Windows, Linux, cloud, and modern software-delivery environments.
• Experience leading technical teams and turning complex security risks into practical engineering priorities.

Benefits

• Initiatives and programmes to enable employees to achieve a healthy work-life balance.

About the company

Qube Research & Technologies (QRT) is a global quantitative and systematic investment manager operating in all liquid asset classes. It is a technology- and data-driven group implementing a scientific approach to investing.