Job Description
Role Details
* Job Title: IAM Architect
* Work Model: Hybrid ( 2 to 3days)
* Location (if hybrid/office based): Leeds/Bradford
* Duration of Assignment: 6 Months
Role Description
We are seeking an experienced IAM Architect with strong expertise across Identity Governance & Administration (IGA) and Privileged Access Management (PAM) to support a major BFSI customer in the UK. The role will be responsible for defining, shaping, and governing the target-state architecture for IGA and PAM capabilities, ensuring alignment with enterprise security strategy, regulatory obligations, and business priorities. The successful candidate will play a key role in security transformation initiatives, driving robust identity governance, privileged access controls, compliance, and risk reduction across a complex regulated environment and implementation. This role requires a strong combination of strategic architecture capability, technical domain depth, and stakeholder management across security, infrastructure, application, risk, audit, and business teams.
Key Responsibilities
* Define and maintain the target-state architecture for IGA and PAM across workforce, third‑party, and privileged identities
* Lead the design of scalable and secure identity controls covering identity lifecycle management, access governance, privileged access, least privilege, and segregation of duties
* Develop architecture principles, standards, policies, patterns, and roadmaps for IGA and PAM transformation programmes
* Provide architectural leadership for onboarding applications, platforms, and infrastructure into IGA and PAM services
* Design and review solutions covering joiner, mover, leaver processes, access requests, approvals, certifications, role modelling, SoD controls, privileged account vaulting, elevation, session management, and break‑glass access
* Support product and vendor evaluations, including RFP responses, technical assessments, and solution selection activities
* Ensure all solution designs align with UK BFSI regulatory, risk, audit, and compliance expectations
* Work closely with engineering, operations, security, and business stakeholders to ensure successful delivery and adoption of identity capabilities
* Review current‑state IAM controls, identify architectural and control gaps, and recommend improvement opportunities
* Provide design assurance, governance, and sign‑off for IGA and PAM initiatives
Key Skills / Knowledge / Experience
* Proven experience working as an IAM Architect, Security Architect, or similar architecture role in large enterprise environments
* Strong hands‑on architectural experience across both IGA and PAM domains
* Demonstrable experience in the Banking, Financial Services and Insurance (BFSI) sector, preferably within the UK
Strong understanding of identity governance principles including:
* Joiner, mover, leaver processes
* Access requests and approvals
* Access certifications and recertifications
* Role modelling and role‑based access control
* Segregation of duties
* Policy‑based access governance
Strong understanding of privileged access controls including:
* Privileged account discovery
* Password vaulting
* Privileged session management
* Just‑in‑time / just‑enough access
* Elevation and delegation controls
* Break‑glass access
* Service and shared account governance
* Experience designing integrations across on‑prem, cloud, hybrid, and SaaS environments
* Good knowledge of identity and security protocols such as SAML, OAuth2, OpenID Connect, LDAP, SCIM, Kerberos, and API‑based integrations
Experience working with one or more enterprise IGA and PAM solutions such as:
* SailPoint, Saviynt, One Identity, Entra ID Governance
* CyberArk, Delinea, BeyondTrust, One Identity PAM
Person Specification
Client Facing and Lead for IDAM Workstream. The ideal candidate will be a seasoned IAM professional with deep architecture experience across both governance‑led identity controls and privileged access security. They will be comfortable operating in a complex BFSI environment, engaging senior stakeholders, and translating security, risk, and regulatory requirements into practical and scalable architecture outcomes. Lead Implementation E2E and ensure benefits are realised.
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