Senior Identity and Full-Stack Engineer

Company: Aberdeen Group
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Location: Edinburgh
Job Description:

Overview

In this role you will own Aberdeen’s customer-facing Identity Provider and IDaaS platform, improving security and reliability. You’ll design and implement authentication, SSO, and user lifecycle solutions, while building cloud-native apps and APIs on Azure. You’ll drive automation, mentoring, and engineering excellence across Digital Engineering. This position offers influence over critical services and engineering standards within a collaborative, growth-focused environment.

Pay / Benefits

  • 40 days’ annual leave
  • 16% employer pension contribution
  • discretionary performance-based bonus
  • private healthcare
  • flexible benefits
  • gym discounts

Responsibilities

  • Own and evolve the customer-facing Identity Provider (IDP) and IDaaS platform with emphasis on reliability and security.
  • Design and implement authentication, SSO, federation, user lifecycle and access governance using OAuth 2.0, OIDC, SAML and SCIM.
  • Build and support cloud-native applications, APIs and integrations on Microsoft Azure from design to production support.
  • Advance automation and engineering excellence via Terraform, GitHub, CI/CD pipelines and scripting tools.
  • Troubleshoot complex incidents, perform root-cause analysis and bolster operational resilience.
  • Mentor engineers and contribute to technical leadership, standards and best practices.

Key requirements

  • Experience operating Identity Provider or Identity-as-a-Service platforms, ideally Okta.
  • Strong knowledge of OAuth 2.0, OIDC, SAML, SSO, MFA and identity security controls.
  • Hands-on experience with Microsoft Azure, identity integration and cloud-native services.
  • Strong software engineering capability across C# .NET APIs, backend services and secure integrations.
  • Experience with Terraform, GitHub, CI/CD automation and scripting tools.
  • Strong problem-solving skills with the ability to collaborate, mentor and support colleagues.
  • collaboration
  • mentoring
  • problem-solving
  • Okta administration
  • SCIM provisioning
  • access governance

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Posted: September 16th, 2026