Entra ID Governance Automation Engineer - Investment Banking - SGI

Entra ID Governance Automation Engineer – Investment Banking
Location: London / Hybrid (UK)
Contract: 12 Months
IR35: Inside IR35
Rate: Negotiable (Day Rate)
Start: ASAP
The Role
Our client is seeking a highly technical Senior Entra ID Governance Engineer to join a major Identity & Access Management programme focused on expanding and enhancing its Microsoft Entra ID Governance capabilities.
As the organisation continues to scale, you'll play a key role in migrating and onboarding an increasing number of users, applications and access policies into the Entra ID Governance platform. Working within a cloud-first Azure environment, you'll help automate identity processes, improve governance controls and deliver robust identity lifecycle management across the business.
This is a hands-on engineering role suited to someone with deep technical expertise, strong automation skills and extensive experience delivering Microsoft identity solutions within large enterprise environments.
Key Responsibilities

• Design, develop and maintain automation using advanced PowerShell scripting.
• Support the implementation and ongoing enhancement of Microsoft Entra ID Governance.
• Develop scalable identity governance solutions across a large Azure estate.
• Automate identity lifecycle management, access reviews and governance processes.
• Work closely with infrastructure, cloud and security teams to deliver identity initiatives.
• Support the migration of users, groups and applications into Entra ID Governance.
• Drive best practices around identity, access management and automation.

• Expert-level PowerShell scripting experience.
• Strong background in Microsoft Entra ID Governance.
• Extensive Azure infrastructure and cloud technology experience.
• Proven experience delivering enterprise Identity & Access Management (IAM) solutions.
• Experience automating infrastructure and identity processes.
• Strong understanding of Microsoft identity technologies and governance principles.
• Excellent problem-solving and stakeholder communication skills.

• Experience using AI-assisted development tools such as Claude Code to improve engineering productivity.
• Previous experience working within large enterprise or financial services environments.
• Knowledge of broader Microsoft Identity technologies, including Entra ID, Azure AD Connect and Privileged Identity Management (PIM).

• Join a large-scale Microsoft identity transformation programme at leading Investment bank.
• Work on a business-critical Entra ID Governance implementation.
• 12-month contract with strong potential for extension.
• Hybrid working within a collaborative cloud engineering team.
• Competitive day rate (Inside IR35).