IAM Engineer DRW

DRW is a diversified trading firm with over three decades of experience bringing sophisticated technology and exceptional people together to operate in markets around the world. We value autonomy and the ability to quickly pivot to capture opportunities, so we operate using our own capital and trade at our own risk.

Headquartered in Chicago with offices throughout the U.S., Canada, Europe, and Asia, we trade a variety of asset classes, including Fixed Income, ETFs, Equities, FX, Commodities, and Energy, across all major global markets. We have also leveraged our expertise and technology to expand into real estate, venture capital, and cryptoassets.

We operate with respect, curiosity, and open minds. The people who thrive here share our belief that it is not just what we do that matters—it is how we do it.
DRW is a place of high expectations, integrity, innovation, and a willingness to challenge consensus.

The IAM Team is a new, vanguard group that will own, implement, and drive DRW’s comprehensive identity capabilities, aligning them with evolving business requirements. This dedicated group collaborates with stakeholders to advance agentic identity, enhanced authentication and authorization controls, and other emerging identity and security innovations, with potential expansion into customer identity and access management (CIAM).

We are seeking an experienced Identity Engineer to own the delivery, operation, and continuous improvement of our enterprise authentication and authorization services. The IAM team is responsible for the security, compliance, availability, and user experience of these services. You will execute implementations, participate in and influence design decisions, and ensure integrations across on-premises and cloud environments meet SLAs and control requirements.

The role focuses on SSO, federation, MFA, and secure access management.

• Own, implement, and operate end-to-end enterprise authentication and federation solutions; drive architecture reviews and collaborate to influence design decisions while ensuring security, compliance, availability, and performance.
• Implement, configure, and support SAML 2.0, OAuth 2.0, OpenID Connect (OIDC), LDAP, and JWT-based integrations.
• Integrate identity solutions with enterprise and third-party applications, APIs, SaaS platforms, and custom web and mobile apps, including SSO, provisioning through SCIM or APIs, and secure API authentication.
• Implement MFA, adaptive authentication, fine-grained access policies, and authorization models that meet security standards.
• Support identity lifecycle and directory integrations with IAM and directory services such as Entra /Azure AD, Active Directory, and ADFS, as well as provisioning systems.
• Troubleshoot authentication and authorization flows; perform root-cause analysis, incident response, and performance tuning.
• Ensure compliance with security, audit, and regulatory requirements and support related assessments.
• Collaborate closely with security, infrastructure, application, and Dev Ops teams to deliver and operate identity services.
• Create and maintain runbooks, SOPs, operational procedures, and technical documentation.

• Strong written and verbal communication, stakeholder management, and cross-team collaboration skills.
• Five or more years of experience in Identity and Access Management (IAM), or equivalent hands-on experience.
• Strong hands-on experience implementing and operating commercial identity platforms and enterprise identity services. Ping AIC and Ping Federate experience is preferred, or the ability to implement required features in Ping.
• Deep knowledge of SSO, federation, and authentication and authorization protocols,…