Director of Engineering - Identity

Location: Bengaluru

Director of Engineering - Identity

Location:

Bangalore, India

Reports to:

VP, Platform Engineering

Role Summary
We are seeking a talented Director of Engineering - Identity to lead the design, development, and evolution of our Identity & Access Management systems. You will drive architectural decisions for authentication, fraud, authorization, kyc and user identity across our banking platform, ensuring security, scalability, and modern user experiences. This is a technical leadership role requiring deep expertise in IAM, modern authentication protocols, fraud systems, cloud security, and large-scale distributed systems.

Key Responsibilities
Execute company’s identity vision aligned with product and platform strategy.
Partner with Product and Engineering to design secure, compliant, and scalable authentication, fraud, kyc and kyb capabilities
Provide technical leadership, mentor engineers, and drive best practices in secure identity management
Lead initiatives for zero-trust architecture, passwordless authentication, and identity innovation.
Own the strategy for identity, authentication, authorization, fraud, and KYC
Collaborate with product, security, and engineering teams to deliver seamless, secure user experiences
Ensure compliance with regulatory and industry standards for financial services
Manage large software development efforts and cross-functional scrum teams
Collaborate with product managers, product owners and agilists to achieve well defined release plans
Define software development standards and engineering disciplines
Evaluate and communicate risks in an appropriate and timely manner to stakeholders
Foster continuous improvement using tools and engineering metrics
Hire, mentor, and grow a high-performing global team of software engineers.
Provide an environment where engineering innovation and continuous learning can thrive and team commitment flourishes
Develop a culture that encourages excellence and high job satisfaction

Requirements
10+ years of software engineering leadership experience with strong expertise in identity management for financial industries.
Deep knowledge of security and fraud concepts and technologies
Knowledge of Java programming language.
Hands-on experience with modern authentication protocols (OAuth 2.0, OIDC, SAML, MFA, etc.)
Strong understanding of cloud infrastructure (GCP preferred) and secure application development
Deep experience designing scalable, distributed systems with high availability and performance
Deep experience integrating solutions with a goal of frictionless or minimal friction user experiences.
Proven technical leadership and ability to drive architecture and platform decisions working with architects.

Preferred:
Deep experience with identity platforms (Auth0, Okta, Keycloak, Ping) and custom IAM solutions

Experience with transactional (ex. NICE Actimize or Verafin) and behavioral (ex. Bio Catch, Callsign) anomaly detection services

Experience with building monitoring and alerting systems that search for exposed data on the dark web or system vulnerabilities.

Experience with extensible platforms, including modularization of components, allowing applications to invoke features as needed.

Experience with KYC or KYB solutions such as Alloy, Socure, or Prove.
Background in highly regulated fields such as financial services and/or banking.
Knowledge of zero-trust security models and emerging trends in identity protection
Passion for security, scalability, and delivering frictionless user experiences