Senior Enterprise Identity & Access Management Engineer

Summary

Join Careem, a leading Everything App in the Middle East, as a Senior Enterprise Identity & Access Management (IAM) Engineer. You will design, implement, and maintain enterprise IAM services (Okta, SailPoint, Thycotic, CyberArk, etc.), onboard applications, and drive innovation. Collaborate with Infrastructure, IT, Compliance, and Legal teams to build secure and robust systems. This remote-first role requires solving unique IAM challenges and reducing friction in colleague access management. You will also mentor junior team members and make key technical decisions impacting the wider team and department. Careem offers a unique work environment and benefits package.

Requirements

• Extensive and deep level of hands-on understanding of authentication concepts and implementation details (e.g., SSO, OAuth2, SAML, OpenID Connect)
• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Management Information Systems; Information Systems, or a related field
• At least 6 years of hands-on experience in enterprise/corporate Identity and Access Management systems
• You have a ‘can do’ attitude and you are more proactive than reactive
• Excellent communication skills
• You are passionate about automation and toil reduction
• Extensive experience with designing and implementing IAM systems using vendors products (Okta, Sailpoint)
• Experience in implementing IAM controls needed by regulations like SOx, GDPR etc
• Hands-on experience working with cloud IAM systems like AWS Directory and identity and access management systems
• Demonstrable ability to challenge, steer, and implement the future vision and roadmap for Identity, Authentication and Authorization
• Skills to design and implement systems to enable seamless and secure access to applications that support our internal colleagues and their operational needs while keeping the systems stable and secure
• You are passionate about automation and working with tools and languages to support it (e.g., Python, scripting languages, Git, CI/CD pipelines)
• Mentoring junior members of team to grow their technical skills
• Experience in managing a Privileged Access Management (PAM) system
• Experience working in hyper growth e-commerce environment

Responsibilities

• Combine your knowledge and expertise in IAM with the goals of our business to support and maintain a world-class enterprise IAM infrastructure to enable our continued growth
• Implement, maintain and modernize Careem’s Identity and Access Management systems ensuring they are widely adopted, provide a world-class experience to our colleagues and stay secure and compliant
• Solve business and colleague experience problems through judicious use of technology
• Assist in driving the identity architecture and strategic decisions as Careem moves along its growth and maturity curve
• Communicate and collaborate effectively with stakeholders
• Mentor the junior members of the team to ensure they grow

Benefits

• Work and learn from great minds by joining a community of inspiring colleagues
• Put your passion to work in a purposeful organisation dedicated to creating impact in a region with a lot of untapped potential
• Explore new opportunities to learn and grow every day
• Work 4 days a week in office & 1 day from home, and remotely from any country in the world for 30 days a year with unlimited vacation days per year. (If you are in an individual contributor role in tech, you will have 2 office days a week and 3 to work from home.)
• Access to healthcare benefits and fitness reimbursements for health activities including gym, health club, and training classes