Identity Architect

Salary: £90,000 - 115,000 per year

Requirements:

• Active SC Security Clearance is essential.
• Strong identity and access management (IAM/IDM) architecture experience is essential.
• Experience leading IAM platforms such as OpenText, Net IQ, SailPoint, Okta, CyberArk, ForgeRock, and MS Entra.
• Ability to own end-to-end IAM/IDM architecture across development, data, and service support workstreams.
• Experience providing technical direction across identity workflows, lifecycle processes, integrations, data flows, platform behaviour, and operational supportability.
• Experience leading identity architecture design, including schemas, attributes, data models, workflow rules, provisioning logic, and integration behaviour.
• Excellent stakeholder management skills across application development, data, infrastructure, service operations, and supplier teams.
• Strong technical knowledge of identity schemas, data flows, attributes, APIs, microservices, integration patterns, identity lifecycle, workflows, platform configuration, and live-service supportability.
• Advantageous experience with Azure AD, M365 identity integration, AWS, API Gateway, LDAP, Directory Services, data feeds, workflow engines, ETL, and enterprise integration.

Responsibilities:

• Take ownership of architecture and provide technical leadership.
• Guide the team from design through to implementation.
• Own the end-to-end IAM/IDM architecture across development, data, and service support workstreams.
• Provide technical direction across identity workflows, lifecycle processes, integrations, data flows, platform behaviour, and operational supportability.
• Lead identity architecture design, including schemas, attributes, data models, workflow rules, provisioning logic, and integration behaviour.
• Work closely with application development, data, infrastructure, service operations, and supplier teams.
• Support a large-scale Government project within a global IT transformation programme.

Technologies:

• API
• AWS
• Architect
• Azure
• ETL
• IAM
• Support
• LDAP
• Security
• microservices
• ASP.NET
• Cloud

More:

We are offering a permanent Identity Architect role based in Corsham with a hybrid working model of three days remote and two days on site in Corsham, Wiltshire. This is an opportunity to join a leading global IT transformation project on a large-scale Government programme, with a planned start as soon as possible in Summer 2026. The package includes a salary of £90,000 to £115,000 depending on experience, plus a bonus, pension, holiday entitlement rising from 22 to 25 days, death in service cover, and a health care plan.

last updated 31 week of 2026