IAM Design SME (Zero Trust & Cloud Architecture)
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Job title: IAM Design SME (Zero Trust & Cloud Architecture)
Rate: 540 per day
Location: Sheffield – 3 days per week
Contract: 6 months rolling
We're looking for an experienced IAM Design SME to join a major transformation programme at a leading UK bank, delivering next–generation Identity and Access Management (IAM) capabilities.
This is a high–impact opportunity to take technical ownership of identity architecture, define secure cloud–native solutions and influence how identity services are designed, integrated and delivered across a complex global enterprise. You'll act as a technical authority across the programme, translating complex security, business and regulatory requirements into robust, scalable and supportable designs.
You’ll be responsible for:
- Producing end–to–end High–Level and Low–Level Designs (HLDs/LLDs).
- Defining IAM architecture across Human, Agent and Workload Identity.
- Designing Zero Trust, authentication, authorisation and federation solutions.
- Developing cloud–native architectures across GCP, Kubernetes and service mesh environments.
- Defining secure API, service–to–service authentication and event–driven integration patterns.
- Designing Policy–as–Code, PKI, certificate lifecycle and secrets management solutions.
- Driving architecture governance, design assurance and technical decision–making across multiple workstreams.
- Working closely with architects, engineering teams and senior stakeholders to deliver production–ready solutions.
Expereince:
We're looking for someone with strong enterprise–level design experience and a proven track record delivering complex IAM or security architecture.
Key experience includes:
- Enterprise Architecture and Identity & Access Management (IAM).
- Authentication, authorisation, federation and OIDC, OAuth2, SAML and SCIM.
- Zero Trust, Agent Identity and Workload Identity.
- GCP, Kubernetes, service mesh and cloud architecture.
- API security, event–driven architecture and Policy–as–Code (OPA/Cedar).
- PKI, certificates, secrets management and DevSecOps/CI/CD.
- High availability, resilience and security architecture.
- Architecture governance, stakeholder engagement and technical leadership.
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