Senior Technical Application Specialist (MFA)

TL;DR

Senior Technical Application Specialist (MFA): Engineering, configuration, onboarding, and operational support of Multi-Factor Authentication solutions across a complex regulated estate with an accent on secure, resilient, compliant, and scalable controls for human and non-human identities. Focus on designing complex MFA integrations across cloud, SaaS, on-premise, and legacy platforms, defining enterprise standards, and leading during migrations and incidents.

Location: Leeds or Manchester (hybrid, at least two days per week or 40% of time in office)

£72,702 – £80,780

Company

We’re transforming at pace, investing billions in people, data, and tech to serve 28 million customers.

What you will do

• Act as technical authority for MFA and enterprise authentication controls
• Lead design, delivery, and assurance of complex MFA integrations across diverse platforms
• Define and own enterprise MFA patterns, standards, and guardrails
• Review authentication designs and provide leadership during migrations and decommissioning
• Handle escalations for high-impact MFA incidents and drive operational resilience
• Support audits, partner with stakeholders, mentor engineers, and contribute to MFA strategy

Requirements

• Significant experience as senior technical specialist in Identity & Access Management or authentication
• Deep hands-on expertise in enterprise-scale MFA solutions
• Strong understanding of authentication protocols (SAML, OIDC, OAuth2, Radius)
• Proven experience integrating authentication in large, complex, regulated environments
• Strong troubleshooting across identity, application, and infrastructure layers
• Ability to operate across strategy, design, delivery, and operations

Nice to have

• Exposure to risk-based or conditional access models
• Understanding of non-human identities, APIs, or workload authentication
• Experience contributing to enterprise security standards or frameworks

Culture & Benefits

• Hybrid working with flexibility for disabilities
• Generous pension up to 15%, performance bonus, share schemes
• 30 days holiday plus bank holidays, adaptable lifestyle benefits
• Wellbeing initiatives, parental leave policies
• Commitment to diversity, equity, and inclusion
• Out of hours support on rota (1 in 3 weeks)