Senior Identity Engineer 18 Month Maximum Term Contract

If you also believe that everyone should be able to achieve their financial potential then youll love contributing to CMC Markets company vision of providing the ultimate trading experience. Seize the opportunity to progress your career in the fintech industry by joining a global leader in CFD trading and share investing. Grow yourself personally and professionally with a company thats growing with you by global expansion and product offering.

Youll work within our Transformation Engineering squad reporting to our Principal Transformation Engineer where youll have genuine autonomy to design enhance and evolve our customer identity services. Youll tackle challenging problems: integrating partner identity assertions implementing cutting-edge Passkeys and WebAuthn orchestrating adaptive risk flows and hardening authentication against emerging threats. Every solution you build will directly impact how securely and smoothly customers access their trading accounts across web iOS and Android.

When authentication is seamless and secure we remove barriers that keep people from taking control of their financial futures. Your work will matter to customers to the business and to your own professional growth.

Why Youll like working here

Just some of the reasons youll love working here include:

• Leave benefits: Enjoy your birthday off to spend time with family and friends on us! Utilise a free annual charity day to give back to your community.

• $0 Trades: Staff & family trading accounts with CMC Markets Invest have access to the best brokerage rates in the market - $0 trades for all domestic and international equity orders!

• Continuous learning: Our L&D offering covers both technical and performance training ensuring youre always learning new skills.

• Unlimited access to a dedicated benefits & wellbeing hub where you can save money through various retailer discounts and make use of a variety of resources that will enhance your physical and mental wellbeing

• Collaboration: We believe that great things happen when smart people work together thats why weve made the decision to work five days in the office.
  

• Office perks: Help yourself to free breakfast cereals condiments and coffee to fuel your workday. Our culture club provides opportunities for everyone whether youre into fitness pizza making classes socialising or bringing out your competitive side in trivia or lawn bowls!

What youll be working on

• Own and evolve preauthentication / journey flows (risk MFA stepup bot protection).
• Implement and tune OAuth2/OIDC/JWT: token lifecycles scopes audience session security.
• Integrate partner (B2B) identity assertions (OIDC) and delegated access patterns.
• Deliver and support MFA methods (SMS push WebAuthn/FIDO2 Passkeys recovery codes).
• Troubleshoot complex web iOS and Android SDK authentication issues with product squads.
• Provide platform and development support (incident response root cause remediation prevention).
• Implement bot / risk controls (captcha contextual / behavioural signals) and harden flows.
• Maintain identity configuration in source control; prevent & detect configuration drift.
• Contribute to secure API authorization patterns (finegrained scopes claims entitlements stepup triggers).
• Collaborate on observability (logs metrics dashboards traces alerts runbooks).
• Drive continuous improvement of security posture (threat modelling hardening review cycles).
• Champion developer enablement: samples SDK guidance troubleshooting playbooks.
• Realtime and offline risk-detection analysis.

What will help you be successful

Were seeking an experienced Customer IAM engineer with a strong technical foundation in OAuth2 OIDC JWT PKCE and token security capable of delivering large-scale identity solutions for high-traffic web and mobile platforms. Youll have expertise in integrating external or partner identities through federation and claims mapping implementing advanced MFA solutions (FIDO2 WebAuthn Passkeys) and designing adaptive authentication journeys with conditional and risk-based triggers. Proficiency in JavaScript and TypeScript clear developer-focused communication and a collaborative approach are essential.

We value a growth mindset strong problem-solving skills and the ability to thrive in a fast-paced cross-functional environment.

You must hold full working rights in Australia to be eligible for this role.

The things we live by

CMC Markets is powered by our people. We are an equal opportunities employer and are committed to creating a diverse and inclusive workplace where our people feel confident to be themselves feel valued and are able to do their best work. We dont just value differences and unique perspectives we seek them out and we invite them in because we know it will lead to better outcomes for everyone

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Were always on the lookout for great people so even if you dont feel you are a 100% fit apply with your up-to-date CV and well consider you for this role and any other suitable opportunities across the business.

We look forward to hearing from you!

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