ForgeRock Consultant
Technical Lead – Identity (ForgeRock)
London (Hybrid, 2 Days Onsite) | Permanent | Banking & Financial Services
We're supporting a major consultancy delivering a large-scale identity and security transformation for a Tier-1 banking client. They are seeking an experienced Consultant to own the technical roadmap, reference architecture, and delivery across key IAM workstreams, including a major upgrade of the ForgeRock platform to version 8.
This role is ideal for a hands-on identity expert who can operate across engineering, architecture, and delivery, while influencing senior stakeholders in a highly regulated, high-availability environment.
Responsibilities include:
- Leading the end-to-end technical design for ForgeRock AM/IDM/DS solutions
- Defining upgrade and migration strategies for ForgeRock v8, including cutover, rollback, and NFR baselines
- Producing HLD/LLD, reference implementations, and guardrails aligned to bank architecture and security standards
- Driving onboarding and migration of identities from legacy platforms into ForgeRock
- Automating deployments, configuration, and testing using CI/CD and Infrastructure-as-Code
- Ensuring secure-by-design principles across authentication, session management, logging, and certificates
- Engaging senior stakeholders across architecture, governance, engineering, and security
- Mentoring engineers and championing best practice within the identity engineering function
Key Skills:
- Deep hands-on expertise across ForgeRock AM, IDM, and DS
- Proven delivery of ForgeRock v8 upgrade programmes
- Strong identity onboarding/migration capability
- CI/CD, Terraform/Ansible, containerisation, scripting (Groovy/Java/JavaScript)
- Excellent understanding of OAuth2/OIDC/SAML and modern access control patterns
- Experience delivering within regulated financial services environments
- Strong communication, leadership, and stakeholder engagement skills
This is an excellent opportunity to drive strategic identity programmes within a large banking environment, working closely with senior technical and security leaders to shape the future of access and authentication.
To discuss the role or register interest, please apply or get in touch directly (harry@paritasrecruitment.com)