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Salary: £? - ? per year
Requirements: Strong background in Enterprise Solution ArchitectureExtensive experience delivering Identity & Access Management (IAM) solutionsExperience with authentication, authorisation and identity federation (OIDC, OAuth2, SAML, SCIM)Experience with Zero Trust ArchitectureExperience with agent identity and workload identityCloud architecture experience, particularly Google Cloud Platform (GCP)Experience with Kubernetes and service meshExperience with API architecture and API securityExperience with event-driven architectureExperience with policy-as-code (OPA, Cedar or similar)Experience with PKI, certificates and secrets managementExperience with DevSecOps and CI/CDExperience designing high availability, disaster recovery and resilience solutionsExperience in security architectureExperience with architecture governance and design reviewsStrong stakeholder management and technical leadership experience Responsibilities: Define end-to-end solution architecture across business, application, data and infrastructure domainsProduce High Level Designs (HLDs), Low Level Designs (LLDs) and Architecture Decision Records (ADRs)Translate business, security and regulatory requirements into secure technical solutionsDesign modern IAM capabilities covering authentication, authorisation, human identity, agent identity, workload identity, identity federation, API security, policy-as-code, secrets management and PKIDesign cloud-native architectures using Google Cloud Platform (GCP) and KubernetesDefine integration patterns between identity platforms, applications and infrastructureDevelop resilient, highly available and scalable architecturesSupport Architecture Review Boards and technical governanceReview supplier designs and provide technical assurance across multiple workstreamsWork closely with Product Owners and engineering teams throughout deliveryMentor engineers and promote architectural best practiceEvaluate new technologies and contribute to the long-term architecture roadmap Technologies: APICI/CDCloudDevSecOpsGCPIAMSupportKubernetesSAMLSecurityArchitect More:
We are supporting a major financial services transformation programme focused on modernising enterprise Identity & Access Management (IAM) capabilities. This is a hybrid role based in Sheffield, with three days per week onsite. The contract is initial until the end of the year with a view to extend long-term, and it sits inside IR35. You will play a key technical leadership role in shaping secure, scalable and cloud-native identity services within a large, complex enterprise environment, working closely with architects, engineering teams, security specialists and business stakeholders.
last updated 29 week of 2026