
Middle Recruitment Limited
IAM Architect - Microsoft
Job Description
Salary: £90,000 - 90,000 per year
Requirements:- Extensive enterprise-level experience across Microsoft Entra ID and Active Directory, covering architecture, implementation, governance, and roadmap ownership
- Proven architectural background in designing identity infrastructure solutions
- Experience delivering identity modernisation at scale
- Track record leading complex identity infrastructure projects from inception to completion
- Experience operating within large, global enterprise environments
- Enterprise-level Joiner, Mover, Leaver automation integrations experience
- Strong understanding of IAM security principles, including governance, least privilege, Zero Trust, modern authentication, and alignment to recognised security frameworks
- Experience delivering Privileged Access Management solutions at scale
- Strong stakeholder communication skills
- Ability to mentor and elevate junior engineers
- Right to work in the UK; no sponsorship is available
- Lead modernisation and optimisation of our enterprise Active Directory infrastructure
- Drive improvements across our hybrid identity environment, including on-premises and cloud synchronisation and source of authority evolution
- Design and deliver complex identity infrastructure projects such as certificate authority rollout, domain consolidation, and authentication modernisation
- Evaluate and implement modern authentication methods such as FIDO2
- Support identity integration across manufacturing and operational technology environments
- Lead identity infrastructure initiatives end-to-end, from concept and design through implementation and operational handover
- Collaborate on identity infrastructure pipelines and automation
- Contribute to strategic and roadmap decisions for our enterprise IAM estate
- Mentor junior engineers and shape identity engineering standards
- Manage stakeholders across IT, OT, senior leadership, information security, cyber, cloud infrastructure, and third-party vendors
- Active Directory
- Architect
- Cloud
- IAM
- Support
- Security
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We are a global enterprise organisation working on a complex hybrid identity environment, and we are seeking an Identity & Access Management Architect to own our on-premises Active Directory estate while partnering across Microsoft Entra ID, cloud, and infrastructure teams. This is an opportunity to build a robust, modern, and secure IAM platform with real architectural impact, helping us automate, protect, and scale our identity domain. The role is based in Basingstoke, Hampshire, with onsite attendance once a week, and offers a salary of up to £90k plus a 15% annual bonus. We provide the chance to influence long-term hybrid identity strategy, work across both traditional IT and manufacturing/OT environments, and operate at enterprise scale.
last updated 30 week of 2026
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