Bestman Solutions
Identity and Access Management Architect
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IAM (Identity & Access Management) Architect
London | Hybrid
We’re working with a highly technical firm in the financial industry that is investing in its cybersecurity capability, with identity forming a key part of that journey.
They’re now looking for an Identity & Access Management Architect to help shape a broad identity programme and mature the way identity is designed and implemented across the organisation.
The technology environment is complex, fast-moving and highly engineering-led, so IAM has to do more than meet security requirements. It needs to work at scale, support different technology environments and enable engineering teams to move quickly without introducing unnecessary risk.
That’s what makes this role interesting. You’ll have the opportunity to influence how identity is approached across the organisation, while staying close enough to the technology to see your decisions put into practice.
The opportunity
You’ll take a leading role in shaping the firm’s identity architecture, but this isn’t an architecture role where you’ll sit several layers away from the technology.
You’ll work directly with security, developers and infrastructure teams to understand what they’re building, solve identity challenges and turn security requirements into practical technical solutions.
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- Designing and evolving Identity & Access Management platforms across a complex technology estate.
- Developing secrets management for applications, services and infrastructure.
- Shaping user-to-service and service-to-service authentication.
- Building identity provider and federation capabilities using OAuth 2.0, OpenID Connect and SAML.
- Designing fine-grained and policy-based authorisation aligned with least privilege and Zero Trust.
- Creating IAM standards and reusable patterns that engineering teams can actually work with.
- Looking across the existing identity landscape, identifying gaps and deciding where capabilities need to mature.
- Working across cloud, application and platform security where identity becomes part of a wider technical challenge.
Who we’re looking for
Technical depth matters here.
We’re looking for someone who understands IAM beyond products and high-level architecture, and can comfortably get into the detail of authentication flows, protocols, infrastructure and how identity services behave in production.
You’ll ideally bring:
- Strong experience designing and implementing Identity & Access Management solutions in complex environments.
- Deep knowledge of authentication, authorisation and secrets management.
- Strong understanding of OAuth 2.0, OpenID Connect, SAML and modern identity architectures.
- Experience working across Linux/Unix, networking, cloud and Kubernetes/container environments.
- The ability to read and write Python.
- The confidence to work directly with experienced engineers, challenge approaches and explain the security trade-offs behind your decisions.
- The ability to move between detailed technical conversations and the bigger architectural picture.
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Experience with Terraform, Ansible or security/infrastructure-as-code would be useful, as would experience in highly engineered, research-led or low-latency environments.
Financial services experience would be valuable, but it’s the technical environment you’ve worked in and the IAM problems you’ve actually solved that will matter most.
For someone who enjoys getting into the detail but also wants the opportunity to influence the direction of an identity programme, there’s a lot of scope here. This opportunity is also open to Identity and Access Management Engineers.
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