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IAM Security Architect
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Role Title: IAM Security Architect
Duration: contract to run until 26/02/2027
Location: London/Brighton/Staines. Hybrid working 3 days per week onsite
Rate: up to £644 p/d Umbrella inside IR35
Role purpose / summary
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 platforms 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 platforms.
- Design user access management for human, agentic applications, and APIs.
- 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.
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Authentication & Federation
Design and implement enterprise authentication and federation services including:
- Single Sign-On (SSO)
- Multi-Factor Authentication (MFA)
- Passwordless Authentication
- Federation Services
- Identity Trust Relationships
Protocols and technologies:
- SAML 2.0
- OAuth 2.0
- OpenID Connect (OIDC)
- SCIM
- WS-Federation
- Kerberos
- 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.
Token Management & Governance
Act as the enterprise authority for token lifecycle management.
Token Types:
- OAuth Access Tokens
- Refresh Tokens
- ID Tokens
- JWT Tokens
- Service Account Tokens
- OIDC Tokens
- PAT (Personal Access Tokens)
- API Access Tokens
Responsibilities:
- Define token issuance standards.
- Establish token lifespan and expiry policies.
- Design token validation mechanisms.
- Define token revocation processes.
- Implement token monitoring and auditing.
- Govern token signing and certificate management.
- Design secure token storage patterns.
- Prevent token leakage and abuse.
- Establish short-lived token standards across cloud platforms.
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Security Principles:
- Least privilege access
- Just-In-Time (JIT) authentication
- Zero Trust verification
- Secure token handling
- Continuous validation of identity
Secrets, Certificates & Key Management
Design and govern enterprise secret management capabilities.
Microsoft Azure:
- Azure Key Vault
- Managed Identities
- Entra Workload Identities
- Service Principals
- Certificate Management
Google Cloud Platform:
- Secret Manager
- Cloud KMS
- Customer Managed Encryption Keys (CMEK)
- Workload Identity Federation
- Service Accounts
Responsibilities include:
- Credential lifecycle management.
- Automated secret rotation.
- Certificate lifecycle governance.
- Encryption key management.
- 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)
- Google Cloud IAM Controls
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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