IAM Solutions Architect Contract

Job Description

Solution Architect - Identity & Access Management (IAM)

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Hybrid Sheffield - 3 days per week onsite

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£575 - 600 per day Inside IR35

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Initial contract until end of the year with view to extend long-term

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We're looking for an experienced Solution Architect to join a major financial services transformation programme focused on modernising enterprise Identity & Access Management (IAM) capabilities.

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This is an opportunity to play a key technical leadership role in designing the next generation of identity services, helping shape secure, scalable and cloud-native solutions within a large, complex enterprise environment.

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Working closely with architects, engineering teams, security specialists and business stakeholders, you'll define solution architecture, establish technical standards and guide delivery across a large-scale IAM transformation programme.

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What You'll Be Doing

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• Define end-to-end solution architecture across business, application, data and infrastructure domains.

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• Produce High Level Designs (HLDs), Low Level Designs (LLDs) and Architecture Decision Records (ADRs).

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• Translate business, security and regulatory requirements into secure technical solutions.

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• Design modern IAM capabilities covering:

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• Authentication and Authorisation

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• Human, Agent and Workload Identity

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• Identity Federation

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• API Security

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• Policy-as-Code

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• Secrets Management and PKI

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• Design cloud-native architectures using Google Cloud Platform (GCP) and Kubernetes.

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• Define integration patterns between identity platforms, applications and infrastructure.

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• Develop resilient, highly available and scalable architectures.

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• Support Architecture Review Boards and technical governance.

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• Review supplier designs and provide technical assurance across multiple workstreams.

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• Work closely with Product Owners and engineering teams throughout delivery.

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• Mentor engineers and promote architectural best practice.

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• Evaluate new technologies and contribute to the long-term architecture roadmap.

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Essential Skills & Experience

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• Strong background in Enterprise Solution Architecture

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• Extensive experience delivering Identity & Access Management (IAM) solutions

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• Authentication, Authorisation and Identity Federation (OIDC, OAuth2, SAML, SCIM)

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• Zero Trust Architecture

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• Agent Identity and Workload Identity

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• Cloud Architecture, particularly Google Cloud Platform (GCP)

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• Kubernetes and Service Mesh

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• API Architecture and API Security

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• Event-Driven Architecture

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• Policy-as-Code (OPA, Cedar or similar)

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• PKI, Certificates and Secrets Management

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• DevSecOps and CI/CD

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• High Availability, Disaster Recovery and Resilience Design

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• Security Architecture

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• Architecture Governance and Design Reviews

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• Strong stakeholder management and technical leadership experience

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If you're an experienced Solution Architect with a strong IAM background and enjoy designing secure, enterprise-scale cloud solutions, we'd love to speak with you.

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Cathcart Technology is acting as an Employment Business in relation to this vacancy.

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