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Salary: £? - ? per year
Requirements: Enterprise solution architecture experienceStrong identity and access management (IAM) expertiseAuthentication and authorisation architecture knowledgeZero Trust architecture experienceExperience with agent identity and workload identityIdentity federation experience, including OIDC, OAuth2, SAML and SCIMCloud architecture experience with GCPKubernetes and service mesh experienceAPI architecture and security experienceEvent-driven architecture experiencePolicy-as-Code experience, including OPA or CedarExperience with PKI, certificates and secrets managementDevSecOps and CI/CD experienceExperience designing high availability and resilience solutionsSuccessful track record working in complex global organisations at paceExperience producing technical design documentation and architecture decision recordsAbility to translate business, security and regulatory requirements into technical solutions Responsibilities: Provide end-to-end solution architecture and technical design for the IDAM 2.0 programmeProduce high level designs and low level designs for identity capabilitiesDefine end-to-end solution architecture across business, application, data and infrastructure domainsTranslate business, security and regulatory requirements into technical solutionsDevelop reference architectures, patterns and design standards for the programmeDefine integration patterns between identity platforms, applications and infrastructureDesign cloud-native solutions for GCP and Kubernetes environmentsDefine authentication, authorisation and federation architecturesDesign agent identity, human identity and workload identity capabilitiesDefine Zero Trust security architecture and trust boundariesDesign API security, service-to-service authentication and workload authentication patternsDevelop event-driven integration architectures using messaging and asynchronous processingDesign Policy Decision Point and Policy Enforcement Point architectures using Policy-as-CodeDefine secrets management, certificate lifecycle and PKI integration patternsDesign resilience, disaster recovery and high availability architecturesEnsure solutions meet non-functional requirements for security, scalability, resilience and performanceProduce architecture decision records and design documentationSupport governance through Architecture Review Boards and Design AuthoritiesPerform solution assurance and technical design reviews across supplier deliveriesIdentify technical risks, assumptions, constraints and dependenciesCollaborate with Enterprise Architecture to ensure alignment with strategic architectureWork with Product Owners to refine technical requirements and delivery prioritiesSupport engineering teams throughout implementation, testing and production readinessMentor engineers and promote engineering best practiceEvaluate new technologies and vendor products against programme requirementsContribute to roadmap planning and future-state architecture Technologies: APIArchitectCI/CDCloudDevSecOpsGCPIAMSupportKubernetesSAMLSecurity More:
We are undergoing a transformation of our Identity and Access Management practices, including the delivery of new tools to overhaul how IAM is carried out in the industry. We are seeking an experienced and dynamic Solution Architect to join our highly skilled team and report into the programme. The role will work closely with IAM architects, business stakeholders and technology partners to deliver secure, scalable and supportable identity services.
last updated 33 week of 2026