IAM Solutions Architect

Salary: £? - ? per year

Requirements:

• Strong background in Enterprise Solution Architecture
• Extensive experience delivering Identity & Access Management (IAM) solutions
• Experience with authentication, authorisation and identity federation (OIDC, OAuth2, SAML, SCIM)
• Experience with Zero Trust Architecture
• Experience with agent identity and workload identity
• Cloud architecture experience, particularly Google Cloud Platform (GCP)
• Experience with Kubernetes and service mesh
• Experience with API architecture and API security
• Experience with event-driven architecture
• Experience with policy-as-code (OPA, Cedar or similar)
• Experience with PKI, certificates and secrets management
• Experience with DevSecOps and CI/CD
• Experience designing high availability, disaster recovery and resilience solutions
• Experience in security architecture
• Experience with architecture governance and design reviews
• Strong stakeholder management and technical leadership experience

Responsibilities:

• Define end-to-end solution architecture across business, application, data and infrastructure domains
• Produce High Level Designs (HLDs), Low Level Designs (LLDs) and Architecture Decision Records (ADRs)
• Translate business, security and regulatory requirements into secure technical solutions
• Design modern IAM capabilities covering authentication, authorisation, human identity, agent identity, workload identity, identity federation, API security, policy-as-code, secrets management and PKI
• Design cloud-native architectures using Google Cloud Platform (GCP) and Kubernetes
• Define integration patterns between identity platforms, applications and infrastructure
• Develop resilient, highly available and scalable architectures
• Support Architecture Review Boards and technical governance
• Review supplier designs and provide technical assurance across multiple workstreams
• Work closely with Product Owners and engineering teams throughout delivery
• Mentor engineers and promote architectural best practice
• Evaluate new technologies and contribute to the long-term architecture roadmap

Technologies:

• API
• CI/CD
• Cloud
• DevSecOps
• GCP
• IAM
• Support
• Kubernetes
• SAML
• Security
• Architect

More:

We are supporting a major financial services transformation programme focused on modernising enterprise Identity & Access Management (IAM) capabilities. This is a hybrid role based in Sheffield, with three days per week onsite. The contract is initial until the end of the year with a view to extend long-term, and it sits inside IR35. You will play a key technical leadership role in shaping secure, scalable and cloud-native identity services within a large, complex enterprise environment, working closely with architects, engineering teams, security specialists and business stakeholders.

last updated 31 week of 2026