Principal IAM Engineer Consultant

ABOUT KALLES GROUP: Everyone deserves to be secure. Our mission at Kalles Group is to help secure the future for companies of all shapes and sizes. While our expertise spans multiple disciplines, our method remains consistent: building trust and relationship with people -- whether you are a client, a consultant, or--in this case--a candidate. No matter what role you come from--whether you're an executive or just starting your career-you can expect our highest level of attention and respect. We want to find the right fit for each role, but we also want you to find the right fit for your career. We believe the best way to show you what our team is like is to treat you like you're already a part of it . We hope you'll consider joining our team of experienced professionals who are building their careers at Kalles Group—and having fun while doing it. WHAT YOU WILL DO: As a Principal IAM Engineer Consultant , you will provide senior technical leadership for our client's Customer Identity and Access Management (CIAM) platform, helping design and deliver secure, scalable identity capabilities that support millions of customer interactions within a highly regulated financial services environment. Serving as the technical authority across engineering, architecture, cybersecurity, product, and delivery teams, you will transform strategic identity initiatives into detailed engineering solutions while driving engineering quality and technical consistency across the platform. This is a hands-on engineering leadership role—not a program management or governance position. You will author detailed engineering designs, define secure authentication and integration patterns, guide implementation teams, and help shape the long-term evolution of the organization's customer identity platform. Success requires deep expertise in modern consumer identity technologies, authentication protocols, cloud-native architectures, and the ability to influence technical direction through credibility, collaboration, and sound engineering judgment. Key Responsibilities: Develop engineering-level solution designs for CIAM initiatives, including architecture, integration patterns, data flows, security controls, operational readiness, and implementation sequencing Partner with Product Owners, architects, cybersecurity teams, engineering, and delivery stakeholders to align technical solutions with business priorities Coordinate technical delivery activities by managing dependencies, clarifying ownership, resolving blockers, and supporting predictable execution Provide technical leadership and mentoring to engineering teams, reinforcing secure coding practices, documentation standards, and maintainable implementation approaches Identify engineering risks, technical debt, architecture drift, and security gaps that could impact platform stability or delivery quality Advise Product Owners on backlog sequencing, technical readiness, engineering complexity, and delivery trade-offs Facilitate technical decision-making across multiple teams while building alignment on architecture, priorities, and implementation approaches Support delivery governance by escalating recurring issues, monitoring execution quality, and partnering with leadership to resolve delivery challenges Develop reusable design patterns, technical standards, implementation guidance, and delivery playbooks that improve consistency across the CIAM program Document technical decisions, assumptions, risks, and mitigation strategies throughout the delivery lifecycle Strengthen collaboration across engineering, cybersecurity, architecture, product management, and vendor partners to improve delivery outcomes Develop detailed engineering design documentation—including authentication flows, integration patterns, sequence diagrams, token architecture, and implementation guidance—to enable consistent, secure delivery across multiple engineering teams. ABOUT YOU: Your values: Integrity: You believe in doing the right th…