Vallum Associates
Lead Service Architect

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Key responsibilities
- Design the end-to-end service architecture for infrastructure access and privileged access.
- Define the target service model, including processes, roles, controls, data flows, integrations, and operational hand-offs.
- Create a risk-based access model that sets the access pattern, approval route, monitoring level, and review frequency.
- Define patterns for standing access, time-bound access, just-in-time access, emergency access, third-party access, cloud access, and privileged administration.
- Define how identity, application, infrastructure, entitlement, account, risk, and control data are used in access decisions.
- Identify trusted data sources, data owners, data quality rules, and exception handling.
- Design controls for least privilege, authorised access, traceability, monitoring, timely removal, access reviews, and audit evidence.
- Define how evidence is produced through workflows, logs, approvals, access records, and session records.
- Identify current-state gaps and define steps to move to the target service.
- Work with IAM, PAM, infrastructure, cloud, application, cyber security, risk, audit, service management, and engineering teams.
- Challenge access processes that are inconsistent, too manual, poorly owned, or designed around individual tools.
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Key deliverables
The role will produce:
- Service blueprint and privileged access service model
- Access pattern catalogue and risk-based decision model
- Process maps, RACI, and ownership model
- Metadata, data, control, and evidence models
- Integration architecture and operating model
- Exception, break-glass, and onboarding designs
- Reporting requirements and transition roadmap


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Experience and capability
Candidates should have experience in several of the following areas:
- Service architecture or service design in a large organisation.
- IAM, PAM, infrastructure access, or security architecture.
- Designing services across people, process, technology, data, and controls.
- Risk-based access models and control design.
- Infrastructure platforms, including servers, databases, cloud platforms, network devices, containers, and administrative tooling.
- Using data from identity systems, application inventories, CMDBs, infrastructure inventories, entitlement stores, or control platforms.
- Designing access request, approval, fulfilment, monitoring, review, revocation, and exception processes.
- Working in regulated, audited, or control-heavy environments.
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