Service Architect PAM

Salary: £58,000 - 98,000 per year

Requirements:

• Experience in service architecture or service design in a large organisation.
• Experience in IAM, PAM, infrastructure access, or security architecture.
• Experience designing services across people, process, technology, data, and controls.
• Experience with risk-based access models and control design.
• Experience with infrastructure platforms, including servers, databases, cloud platforms, network devices, containers, and administrative tooling.
• Experience using data from identity systems, application inventories, CMDBs, infrastructure inventories, entitlement stores, or control platforms.
• Experience designing access request, approval, fulfilment, monitoring, review, revocation, and exception processes.
• Experience working in regulated, audited, or control-heavy environments.
• Experience with cloud IAM, secrets management, zero standing privilege, just-in-time access, attribute-based access control, service accounts, non-human identities, security monitoring, session recording, or financial services would be useful.

Responsibilities:

• Produce a service blueprint and privileged access service model.
• Produce an access pattern catalogue and risk-based decision model.
• Produce process maps, RACI, and ownership model.
• Produce metadata, data, control, and evidence models.
• Produce integration architecture and operating model.
• Produce exception, break-glass, and onboarding designs.
• Produce reporting requirements and a transition roadmap.

Technologies:

• Architect
• Cloud
• IAM
• Network
• Security

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We are offering a contract role for a Service Architect - PAM on an inside IR35 basis, based in Sheffield, UK with a hybrid working arrangement. This role sits within a privileged access service context and focuses on shaping service models, access patterns, control design, integration architecture, and transition planning.

last updated 36 week of 2026