Lead IAM Specialist

About the opportunity

The RegTech Group at N26 creates a secure, compliant by design, environment where seamless access to essential IT assets empowers individuals and teams to innovate and achieve their highest impact with confidence and minimal risk.

The IAM (Identity and Access Management) team is continuously trying to optimize and automate manual tasks to cope with the tremendous growth of the company moving away from the traditional IT into a more DevSecOps approach relying on technology to empower people.

This team keeps the show running at N26 by onboarding and offboarding user accounts, managing accounts and granting/revoking access to tools. It\’s a multidisciplinary team with a customer first attitude.

As Lead IAM Specialist, you will work closely with our Engineering and Security teams, Product teams and other departments. Seamless cooperation between these teams is essential and supported on all levels.

If you like to think outside the box, automate everything and make people\’s lives easier, we are looking for you!

In this role, you will:

• Lead the team of IAM specialists in an autonomous team and guide them methodologically and technologically.
• Development and establishment of all technical and organizational measures for a company-wide authorization concepts.
• Design of the IAM processes for IT infrastructure and N26 applications.
• Proactively modify and enhance existing tools for the departments we support, and always look to identify other teams that would benefit from our support (SSO & SAML integrations, stakeholder management).
• Play a role in planning and designing new features, as well as maintaining our existing customizations.
• Monitoring and ensuring the specified compliance requirements in relation to the global role and access permission concepts (including BAIT, MaRisk, …).
• Be responsible to oversee the on- and offboarding in regards to access management.

What you need to be successful:

• Technical leadership experience, you have been leading small to medium (tech) teams.
• Experience with Google Suite, especially GSuite Admin.
• Excellent knowledge and technical capability in IAM technologies, ideally solutions such as Okta and Active Directory.
• Knowledge of scripting languages and automation tools (e.g., PowerShell, Python) to streamline IAM processes.
• Knowledge and experience with one or more areas of identity and access management such as authentication, authorization, etc. Knowledge of industry standard security concepts and protocols like SAML, SCIM, OAuth, OIDC, and RBAC is a plus.
• An excellent knowledge of processes across the end-to-end IAM lifecycle (e.g., Identity management, recertification, revocation, access request approval, provision and deprovision, toxic combinations, Segregation of Duties).
• Knowledge on functionalities of API and its usage in the context of IAM.
• Ability to be empathetic, humble, and possess a strong focus on customer service.
• Outstanding interpersonal and communication skills.

What’s in it for you:

• Accelerate your career growth by joining one of Europe’s most talked about disruptors.
• Employee benefits that range from a competitive personal development budget, work from home budget, discounts to fitness & wellness memberships, language apps and public transportation.
• As an N26 employee you will have access to a Premium subscription on your personal N26 bank account. As well as subscriptions for friends and family members.
• Additional day of annual leave for each year of service.
• A high degree of autonomy and access to cutting edge technologies – all while working with a friendly team of peers of diverse nationalities, life experiences and backgrounds.
• A relocation package with visa support for those who need it.

Who we are

N26 has reimagined banking for today’s digital world. Technology and design empower everything we do and it’s how we are building the global banking platform the world loves to use.

We\’ve eliminated physical branches, paperwork, and hidden fees for an elegant digital experience and supreme savings. Giving people the power to live and bank their way is what gets us out of bed in the morning and inspires the work that we do.

We are headquartered in Berlin with offices in multiple cities across Europe, including Vienna and Barcelona, and a 1,500-strong team of more than 80 nationalities.

Sounds good? Apply now for this position.

Equal Opportunities:

We recognize that our strength lies in our people and the varied perspectives they bring to our workforce. We strive to build talented and diverse teams to drive our business success and empower our people to reach their full potential.

We genuinely welcome and encourage applications from people of all backgrounds, cultures, genders, sexual orientations, abilities, neurodiversities, and ages. We\’re committed to creating an inclusive workspace where everyone feels valued and respected, free from harassment and discrimination. If there\’s anything you need to make the application process work for you, please let us know by reaching out to

Visit our website to learn more about Diversity, Equity, & Inclusion at N26.

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