Job Overview
Principal Digital Identity & Trust Architecture Engineer
📍 Location: Manama, Bahrain
🏢 Work Model: Remote-First (GCC Region)
💼 Employment Type: Full-Time | Permanent
🎖 Career Level: Principal Engineer
🏛 Industry: Financial Technology | Digital Identity | Cloud Security | Enterprise Platform Engineering
Position Overview
A leading financial technology innovation programme is expanding its engineering leadership team with the appointment of a Principal Digital Identity & Trust Architecture Engineer to design secure, scalable identity platforms that underpin next-generation financial services.
This role is responsible for architecting trusted digital identity ecosystems, enhancing authentication capabilities, and strengthening enterprise security across cloud-native financial platforms serving millions of users.
Core Responsibilities
Identity Architecture
- Design enterprise digital identity frameworks.
- Develop secure authentication solutions.
- Build authorization and access control models.
- Improve customer identity lifecycle management.
Cloud Security Engineering
- Secure cloud-native financial applications.
- Strengthen Zero Trust architecture.
- Implement automated security controls.
- Improve infrastructure resilience.
Technical Leadership
- Lead architecture reviews.
- Mentor engineering teams.
- Define enterprise engineering standards.
- Collaborate with cybersecurity, infrastructure, and software engineering teams.
Innovation
- Evaluate emerging identity technologies.
- Enhance biometric authentication capabilities.
- Improve digital trust services.
- Support enterprise modernization initiatives.
Required Qualifications
- Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Computer Science, Cybersecurity, Software Engineering, Information Technology, or a related discipline.
- Minimum 10 years of enterprise engineering experience.
- Strong expertise in identity and access management.
- Experience securing financial platforms.
- Excellent leadership and architectural decision-making skills.
Technology Expertise
- OAuth 2.0
- OpenID Connect
- SAML
- Kubernetes
- Docker
- AWS
- Microsoft Azure
- Terraform
- Python
- Linux
- Identity & Access Management (IAM)
- API Security
- Infrastructure as Code
- Zero Trust Architecture
- SIEM Platforms
Compensation & Benefits
- Premium tax-free salary package
- Annual performance incentives
- Housing allowance
- Comprehensive family healthcare
- Flexible remote-first work model
- Sponsored professional certifications
- International engineering conferences
- Executive mentoring programme
- Annual return airfare
- Long-term career advancement in a globally connected fintech ecosystem
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