About this role
Salary: £140,400 - 140,400 per year
Requirements
- Strong enterprise-level design experience and a proven track record delivering complex IAM or security architecture
- Enterprise architecture and Identity and Access Management (IAM) experience
- Knowledge of authentication, authorisation, federation, OIDC, OAuth2, SAML and SCIM
- Experience with Zero Trust, Agent Identity and Workload Identity
- Experience with GCP, Kubernetes, service mesh and cloud architecture
- Knowledge of API security, event-driven architecture and Policy-as-Code (OPA/Cedar)
- Experience with PKI, certificates, secrets management and DevSecOps/CI/CD
- Knowledge of high availability, resilience and security architecture
- Experience in architecture governance, stakeholder engagement and technical leadership
Responsibilities
- Produce end-to-end High-Level and Low-Level Designs (HLDs/LLDs)
- Define IAM architecture across Human, Agent and Workload Identity
- Design Zero Trust, authentication, authorisation and federation solutions
- Develop cloud-native architectures across GCP, Kubernetes and service mesh environments
- Define secure API, service-to-service authentication and event-driven integration patterns
- Design Policy-as-Code, PKI, certificate lifecycle and secrets management solutions
- Drive architecture governance, design assurance and technical decision-making across multiple workstreams
- Work closely with architects, engineering teams and senior stakeholders to deliver production-ready solutions
- Take technical ownership of identity architecture and translate security, business and regulatory requirements into robust, scalable and supportable designs
Technologies
- API
- CI/CD
- Cloud
- DevSecOps
- GCP
- IAM
- Kubernetes
- SAML
- Security
- Architect
More
We are hiring an IAM Design SME for a major transformation programme at a leading UK bank, delivering next-generation Identity and Access Management capabilities across a complex global enterprise. This high-impact role offers the opportunity to influence how identity services are designed, integrated and delivered. The contract is six months rolling, at a rate of £540 per day, with three days per week based in Sheffield.
last updated 44 week of 2026