IAM Architect

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Job Title: IAM Architect
Work Model: Hybrid ( 2 to 3days)
Location (if hybrid/office based): Leeds/Bradford
Duration of Assignment: 6 Months

Role Description (Please include a brief outline of the impact this role will have, including overview of customer industry and projects, access to cutting-edge technology etc.) 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 (Up to 10, Avoid repetition)

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 (Up to 10, Avoid repetition)

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. xbpsjku Lead Implementation E2E and ensure benefits are realised.

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Job Type:: FullTime
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