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Salary: £? - ? per year
Requirements: Enterprise ArchitectureIdentity and Access Management (IAM)Authentication and authorisationZero Trust ArchitectureAgent Identity and Workload IdentityIdentity federation: OIDC, OAuth2, SAML and SCIMCloud architecture, particularly GCPKubernetes and service meshAPI architecture and securityEvent-driven architecturePolicy-as-Code, including OPA and CedarPKI, certificates and secrets managementDevSecOps and CI/CDHigh availability and resilience designSecurity architectureArchitecture governanceStakeholder managementTechnical leadership Responsibilities: Produce high-level and low-level designs for identity capabilities.Define end-to-end technical solutions across business, application, data and infrastructure domains.Translate business, security and regulatory requirements into technical solutions.Develop reference architectures, patterns and design standards for the programme.Define integration patterns between identity platforms, applications and infrastructure.Design cloud-native solutions for GCP and Kubernetes environments.Define authentication, authorisation and federation architectures.Design Agent Identity, Human Identity and Workload Identity capabilities.Define Zero Trust security architecture and trust boundaries.Design API security, service-to-service authentication and workload authentication patterns.Develop event-driven integration architectures using messaging and asynchronous processing.Design Policy Decision Point (PDP) and Policy Enforcement Point (PEP) architectures using Policy-as-Code.Define secrets management, certificate lifecycle and PKI integration patterns.Design resilience, disaster recovery and high-availability architectures.Ensure solutions meet non-functional requirements for security, scalability, resilience and performance.Produce architecture decision records (ADRs) and design documentation.Support governance through Architecture Review Boards and Design Authorities.Perform solution assurance and technical design reviews across supplier deliveries.Identify technical risks, assumptions, constraints and dependencies.Collaborate with Enterprise Architecture to ensure alignment with strategic architecture.Work with Product Owners to refine technical requirements and delivery priorities.Support engineering teams throughout implementation, testing and production readiness.Mentor engineers and promote engineering best practice.Evaluate new technologies and vendor products against programme requirements.Contribute to roadmap planning and future-state architecture. Technologies: APICI/CDCloudDevSecOpsGCPIAMSupportKubernetesSAMLSecurityDevOps More:
We are seeking an architecture professional to shape identity capabilities and technical solutions across a programme. The role focuses on identity, cloud-native and security architecture, with collaboration across Enterprise Architecture, Product Owners, suppliers and engineering teams.
last updated 41 week of 2026