IAM Architect - Systems Integrator

Ready to shape enterprise identity and access management in a complex, highly regulated environment?

Join a technology organisation delivering secure, scalable IAM solutions for major financial and enterprise clients. Drive the definition, design, and governance of enterprise-wide identity and access management architecture.

The role combines strategic architecture with hands-on design oversight to deliver scalable and secure identity controls, including lifecycle management, access governance, and privileged access capabilities, while supporting large-scale IAM transformation initiatives.

Take the next step in your career and help deliver strategic IAM solutions that secure and simplify enterprise access, apply now!

Key Responsibilities:

• Define, own, and continuously evolve the target-state architecture for Identity Governance & Administration (IGA) and Privileged Access Management (PAM) across workforce, third-party, and privileged identities, ensuring alignment with enterprise security strategy, regulatory requirements, and business objectives within a UK BFSI environment.
• Lead the end-to-end design of scalable and secure identity controls covering identity lifecycle management (joiner, mover, leaver), access requests and approvals, access certifications, role-based access control, segregation of duties, and privileged access capabilities such as vaulting, session management, and just-in-time access.
• Develop and maintain IAM architecture principles, standards, policies, reusable design patterns, and strategic roadmaps to support large-scale IGA and PAM transformation programmes and drive long-term security maturity across the organisation.
• Provide architectural leadership and governance for onboarding applications, platforms, and infrastructure into IAM services, ensuring consistent integration patterns across on-premises, cloud, hybrid, and SaaS environments.
• Conduct current-state IAM assessments to identify control gaps, risks, and inefficiencies, and deliver actionable recommendations and design assurance to improve security posture, compliance, and operational effectiveness across identity and privileged access domains.

Requirements:

• Demonstrate deep domain expertise across Identity Governance & Administration (IGA) and Privileged Access Management (PAM), including strong hands-on architectural experience in designing and implementing RBAC models, access certifications, segregation of duties, privileged account discovery, password vaulting, session monitoring, and just-in-time access controls.
• Possess strong enterprise architecture capabilities with proven experience designing scalable, resilient, and secure IAM solutions across complex environments spanning on-premises infrastructure, cloud platforms, hybrid architectures, and SaaS applications.
• Exhibit solid technical knowledge of identity and security protocols and standards, including SAML, OAuth2, OpenID Connect, LDAP, SCIM, Kerberos, and REST/API-based integrations, enabling seamless interoperability across diverse systems and platforms.
• Apply in-depth understanding of regulatory, risk, audit, and compliance requirements within the UK Banking, Financial Services, and Insurance (BFSI) sector, ensuring IAM solutions meet stringent governance and security expectations.
• Demonstrate excellent stakeholder management, communication, and leadership skills, with the ability to collaborate effectively across security, engineering, infrastructure, audit, and business teams while influencing senior stakeholders and driving adoption of IAM strategies and solutions.

Contract Details:

• Contract Type: Initial 6 month contract (Inside IR35)
• Location: Hybrid in Leeds or Bradford

Salary:

• Rate: £575 per day