IAM Engineering lead - Customer Identity and Access Management

• Shape the future of insurance with innovative ideas and technologies that improve the lives of millions of Australians
• Work alongside diverse, passionate colleagues and leaders who inspire, support, and value your contributions.
• Enjoy work-life balance with flexible working options, and well-being initiatives that prioritise your health

Reimagine Your Career with TAL 

For over 150 years, we've never stopped finding better ways to protect Australians. As one of the nation’s leading life insurers, we’re driven by ambition and a sense of purpose. Our responsibility to our customers, partners, and the broader community is at the heart of everything we do. 

At TAL, we’re empowered to experiment, innovate, and create better products and services. Backed by Daiichi Life, one of the world’s largest insurers, we deliver financial security to millions of Australians through our care and expertise. Bring your curious mind and ambition to shape our industry and help us become the progressive, digitally enabled, leading insurer we aim to be. 

Join TAL’s Technology team as an IAM Engineering Lead – Customer Identity and Access Management and help shape the secure digital experiences that support Australians when they need us most. In this role, you’ll contribute to TAL’s broader purpose by strengthening the identity foundations that enable customers, partners and teams to connect with confidence across our digital and cloud services. By bringing care, curiosity and continuous improvement to customer identity, you’ll help ensure our technology remains trusted, resilient and ready to support meaningful moments in our customers’ lives.

This role can be based in Sydney or Melbourne.

In this role you will:

• Lead secure, scalable CIAM capabilities that protect TAL’s customers and digital ecosystem.
• Strengthen identity controls to reduce fraud, account takeover risk and governance gaps.
• Drive automation and modern engineering practices that improve reliability, efficiency and service quality.
• Embed secure, low-friction authentication journeys aligned to Zero Trust and customer needs.
• Partner across Technology, Security and Digital teams to deliver sustainable identity security outcomes.
• Develop engineering capability and foster accountability, collaboration and continuous improvement.

• Relevant degree or equivalent practical experience
• 7+ years’ IAM, CIAM or cyber security engineering experience
• Okta, Auth0 or comparable CIAM platform experience
• Modern identity security practices
• Automation, scripting and integration capability
• Leadership and collaboration across teams and stakeholders

TAL is one of Australia’s leading life insurers, committed to inclusion, and supporting the career growth of our diverse workforce. We’re proud to be: 

• An Inclusive Employer – Recognised as Employer of Choice for Gender Equality by the Workplace Gender Equality Agency and Bronze Tier Status within the Australian Workplace Equality Index 
• Diversity Champions – Member of Diversity Council Australia, Australian Disability Network, Pride in Diversity and Champions of Change 
• Reconciliation Advocates – Read our Innovate Reconciliation Action Plan.
• We welcome applications from people with diverse experiences, perspectives and backgrounds including Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people, caregivers, individuals living with disabilities, people from culturally diverse backgrounds and the LGBTIQ+ community. 
• Need adjustments during the recruitment process? Let our team know by getting in touch with us here—we’re here to support you.

You’re always accountable for your actions. You never give up. You strive to find the best outcomes for customers and partners. And you value working together to find the best solutions for problems.  

As part of the recruitment process, there are several checks which may be conducted to demonstrate your eligibility for a role at TAL including Criminal History, Bankruptcy, Entitlement to Work, Regulatory and Reference Checks. 

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Everyone at TAL has a responsibility to do the right thing and is accountable for the way they conduct themselves. Our expectations are that you follow the principles set out in our Code of Conduct when you come to work every day. Risk management is everyone’s responsibility.

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