Wolters Kluwer
Principal Engineer, Identity and Access Management
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Lead the Design and Engineering of a Cloud-agnostic Identity and Authorization Platform
Lead the design and engineering of a cloud-agnostic Identity and Authorization Platform that secures users, services, APIs, AI agents, and data across a multi-tenant SaaS platform. Unlike traditional IAM roles, this position focuses heavily on authorization architecture.
Responsibilities
Lead architecture and implementation of:
- Authentication
- Authorization
- Identity federation
- Fine-grained access control
Own architecture for:
- RBAC
- ReBAC
- ABAC
- ACL
- Policy engines
- Relationship graphs
Design authorization for:
- Web applications
- Mobile
- APIs
- Microservices
- AI Gateway
- Agent runtime
- MCP tools
- Knowledge Graph
- Vector stores
Design authorization decision architecture:
- PEP ↓
- PDP ↓
- Policy Store ↓
- Relationship Store↓
- Decision
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Lead adoption of:
- OpenFGA / SpiceDB
- Cedar
- Open Policy Agent (OPA)
- Zanzibar concepts
Work with platform teams on:
- API Gateway
- AI Gateway
- Kubernetes
- Service Mesh
- mTLS
Essential Experience
- 10+ years engineering
- 5+ years security platform experience
- Demonstrable experience building authorization engines using:
- RBAC
- ReBAC
- ABAC
- ACL
- Experience designing authorization for:
- Multi-tenant SaaS
- Microservices
- APIs
- Experience with:
- OAuth2
- OpenID Connect
- JWT
- SAML
- Strong distributed systems experience
Nice to Have
- Google Zanzibar
- OpenFGA
- SpiceDB
- OPA
- Cedar
- Envoy
- Istio
- SPIFFE/SPIRE
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