Tech Lead – Consumer Identity & Access Management (CIAM)

18 months with one extension

Location: QLD, ACT, VIC, NSW

Australian Citizenship

We are seeking an experienced CIAM Tech Lead to provide hands-on technical leadership across the implementation and integration of large-scale Consumer Identity & Access Management solutions.

This is a senior engineering role combining hands-on development, solution design and technical leadership. You will build features, review code, solve complex implementation challenges and mentor engineers while helping deliver secure and scalable identity solutions within a complex enterprise environment.

Key Duties & Responsibilities
Lead the technical implementation of enterprise CIAM solutions.
Remain hands-on with software development while maintaining a high-quality and maintainable codebase.
Design solutions for complex identity and access management challenges.
Troubleshoot complex technical and integration issues.
Conduct code reviews, unit testing and integration testing.
Contribute to technical estimation, refinement and delivery planning.
Mentor and upskill engineers and act as a technical escalation point for the team.




Collaborate with other engineering and platform teams to integrate CIAM solutions with enterprise systems.
Drive modern engineering practices and leverage AI-assisted development tools to improve productivity and code quality.
Provide technical guidance to support solution design and project planning.

What we are looking for
7+ years’ software engineering experience, with advanced object-oriented programming, JavaScript and TypeScript skills and strong hands-on development capability.
Solid CIAM engineering experience, including OAuth 2.0, OpenID Connect (OIDC) and hands-on customization/integration of platforms such as Auth0, Okta, ForgeRock or Ping Identity.
Proven technical leadership with solid unit/integration testing (Jest or similar), mentoring and code-review experience, plus exposure to AI-assisted development tools such as GitHub Copilot, Claude Code or Cursor.

Highly Desirable
Experience configuring and customising SaaS CIAM platforms.
Experience developing and integrating microservices within AWS, Azure or GCP environments.
Robust understanding of authentication, authorization and modern identity patterns.
Experience working with complex, high-volume consumer identity settings.

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