Senior Identity & Access Management (IAM) Engineer

About the Role:

The Senior IAM Engineer provides hands on technical leadership across identity platforms and integrations, supports enterprise architectural patterns, and ensures IAM services are secure, resilient, and audit ready across RELX business units. While not an architect of record, the role acts as a delegate technical authority within defined architectural guardrails.

About the Team:

This role is a senior individual contributor within RELX’s Central Operations, Governance and Security (COGS), responsible for the engineering, operation, and continuous improvement of RELX’s enterprise Identity and Access Management (IAM) services.

Responsibilities

IAM Platform Engineering & Operations

• Operationally manage and enhance the RELX IAM platform, with primary focus on Saviynt Enterprise Identity Cloud (EIC).
• Engineer, operate, and maintain Active Directory and Microsoft Entra ID (Azure AD) identity services.
• Ensure IAM platforms meet enterprise standards for security, availability, performance, scalability, and auditability.

Architecture Contribution & Technical Leadership

• Work closely with Architects to contribute to enterprise IAM patterns and designs.
• Act as delegate architect where required, ensuring alignment with RELX standards.
• Assess technical feasibility and implementation approaches for IAM‑related initiatives and integrations.

IAM BAU & Governance

• Own and execute Joiner, Mover, Leaver (JML) lifecycle processes.
• Support and operate access requests, approvals, revocations, certifications, and UAR controls.
• Ensure IAM BAU processes are deterministic, repeatable, and compliant.

Integration, Automation & APIs

• Design and implement ServiceNow integrations using REST APIs.
• Build and consume IAM‑related APIs, working extensively with JSON‑based payloads.
• Develop and maintain automation using Terraform and PowerShell to reduce manual operations.
• Improve system monitoring, reconciliation, and operational transparency.

Security, Risk & Compliance

• Apply security‑by‑design principles across IAM solutions.
• Support audit and regulatory requirements aligned with CISSP‑level security domains.
• Ensure enterprise change management follows strict, transparent, and well‑communicated protocols.

Emerging Identity & AI Enablement

• Support IAM patterns for Non‑Human Identities (NHIs), service accounts, and machine‑to‑machine access.
• Enable secure integration of AI gateways, agent‑based identities, and MCP‑style service models within enterprise IAM controls.

Collaboration & International Ways of Working

• Operate as part of a globally distributed team comprising RELX staff and third‑party engineers.
• Collaborate daily with US‑ and UK‑based peers, ensuring continuity across time zones.
• Work effectively across cultural, organizational, and vendor boundaries while maintaining clear ownership and accountability.
• Support follow‑the‑sun operations where required, without loss of control or auditability.

Requirements:

• Senior hands‑on experience with Saviynt Enterprise Identity Cloud (EIC) preferred, or at least other industry leading IAM solutions; SailPoint, One Identity, or others.
• Proven enterprise IAM experience with Active Directory and Microsoft Entra ID.
• Excellent experience operating IAM BAU services at scale.
• Exceptional REST API and ServiceNow integration experience and PowerShell scripting capability.
• Experience with Terraform for identity or cloud‑adjacent automation.
• Deterministic, structured problem‑solving mindset with the ability to operate autonomously in a global, distributed environment.

Security & Credentials

• CISSP or other industry recognised certification (required or strongly preferred).
• Experience working in regulated, audit‑driven environments.

Preferred / Differentiators

• Experience with AI‑related identity patterns (NHIs, gateways, service identities).
• Exposure to enterprise‑scale identity automation and governance.

Work in a way that works for you:

We promote a healthy work/life balance across the organisation. We offer an appealing working prospect for our people. With numerous wellbeing initiatives, shared parental leave, study assistance and sabbaticals, we will help you meet your immediate responsibilities and your long-term goals.

Working for you:

We know that your wellbeing and happiness are key to a long and successful career. These are some of the benefits we are delighted to offer:

• Health Benefits: Comprehensive, multi-carrier program for medical, dental and vision benefits
• Retirement Benefits: 401(k) with match and an Employee Share Purchase Plan
• Wellbeing: Wellness platform with incentives, Headspace app subscription, Employee Assistance and Time-off Programs
• Short-and-Long Term Disability, Life and Accidental Death Insurance, Critical Illness, and Hospital Indemnity
• Family Benefits, including bonding and family care leaves, adoption and surrogacy benefits
• Health Savings, Health Care, Dependent Care and Commuter Spending Accounts
• In addition to annual Paid Time Off, we offer up to two days of paid leave each to participate in Employee Resource Groups and to volunteer with your charity of choice

About the Business:

RELX is a global provider of information‑based analytics and decision tools serving customers in the science, health, legal, risk, and exhibitions industries. We promote innovation, integrity, and collaboration—empowering our teams to make meaningful impact across our businesses.

U.S. National Base Pay Range: $95,300 - $158,800. Geographic differentials may apply in some locations to better reflect local market rates. This job is eligible for an annual incentive bonus.

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