Duration: contract to run until 26/02/2027
Location: London/Brighton/Staines. Hybrid working 3 days per week onsite
Rate: up to £625.60 p/d Umbrellainside IR35
The Identity & Access Architect is responsible for defining, designing, and governing enterprise-wide Identity and Access Management (IAM) solutions across Microsoft Azure, Microsoft Entra ID, Google Cloud Platform (GCP) and Saas Platform such as Salesforce, Oracle Health Insurance , and PeopleSoft
The role provides technical leadership for identity architecture, authentication, authorization, privileged access management, federation, secrets management, token lifecycle governance, and DevSecOps identity controls. The architect will establish secure, scalable, and compliant identity patterns for users, applications, workloads, APIs, automation platforms, and CI/CD pipelines while supporting a Zero Trust security model.
The successful candidate will serve as the subject matter expert for cloud identity, access governance, workload authentication, and token management across hybrid and multi-cloud environments for human and also agentic access requirements.
Key Responsibilities
Identity Architecture & Strategy
- Define and maintain the enterprise IAM strategy and roadmap.
- Design secure identity architectures across Azure, Entra ID, GCP , SaaS platform
- Design User access management for human, Agentic applications and API’s
- Develop identity governance standards, patterns, and reference architectures.
- Ensure alignment with Zero Trust principles and cloud security best practices.
- Lead the design of hybrid identity and cloud-native authentication solutions.
- Provide architecture guidance for new applications, platforms, and services.
- Design and implement enterprise authentication and federation services including:
- Single Sign-On (SSO)
- Passwordless Authentication
- Identity Trust Relationships
Protocols and technologies:
- SAML 2.0
- OAuth 2.0
- OpenID Connect (OIDC)
- SCIM
- LDAP
Responsibilities include:
- Federation between Microsoft Entra ID and GCP.
- Integration with SaaS and third-party identity providers.
- B2B and B2C identity solutions.
- Cross-cloud trust establishment.
- API authentication architecture.
- Act as the enterprise authority for token lifecycle management.
- OAuth Access Tokens
- PAT (Personal Access Tokens)
- API Access Tokens
Responsibilities
- Establish token lifespan and expiry policies.
- Implement token monitoring and auditing.
- Govern token signing and certificate management.
- Prevent token leakage and abuse.
- Establish short-lived token standards across cloud platforms.
Security Principles
- Zero Trust verification
- Continuous validation of identity
- Secrets, Certificates & Key Management
- Design and govern enterprise secret management capabilities.
- Managed Identities
- Entra Workload Identities
- Certificate Management
- Customer Managed Encryption Keys (CMEK)
- Workload Identity Federation
- Service Accounts
Responsibilities
- Automated secret rotation.
- Elimination of hard-coded credentials.
- Secure storage and retrieval controls
- Auditable access to sensitive credentials.
- Secrets management standards across cloud platforms.
Privileged Access Management (PAM)
- Design and govern privileged access solutions including:
- Microsoft Entra Privileged Identity Management (PIM)
- Just-In-Time Access
- Just Enough Administration (JEA)
Responsibilities include:
- Privileged role governance.
- Privileged access reviews.
- Break-glass account management.
- Segregation of duties controls.
All profiles will be reviewed against the required skills and experience. Due to the high number of applications we will only be able to respond to successful applicants in the first instance. We thank you for your interest and the time taken to apply!
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