Role Title: IAM Technical Lead
Location: Sheffield (Hybrid – up to 3 days per week onsite)
Role Category: Inside IR35
Overview
We’re recruiting for an experienced Technical Lead to join the Identity & Access Management team of a leading global financial services organisation.
This role offers the opportunity to play a key role in a major Next Generation IAM transformation programme, providing technical leadership across the design and delivery of secure, scalable and enterprise-grade identity services.
Responsibilities
- Own the technical solution and architecture for the IAM workstream.
- Define and maintain High Level Designs (HLDs) and Low Level Designs (LLDs).
- Lead technical decision-making and technology selection.
- Drive adoption of Zero Trust and identity-first design principles.
- Provide technical leadership and mentoring to engineering teams.
- Review solution designs, code and infrastructure changes.
- Manage technical risks, assumptions, dependencies and integration activities.
- Work closely with Architecture, Engineering, Security, Operations and third-party suppliers.
- Support Agile delivery, planning, estimation and technical requirements.
- Define and assure non-functional requirements including security, resilience, performance, scalability and observability.
- Ensure solutions are production-ready and operationally supportable.
- Champion DevSecOps, automation and continuous improvement.
- Support architecture governance, design authorities and technical steering groups.
Required Skills
- Strong experience in enterprise Identity & Access Management (IAM/IDAM).
- Proven experience as an IAM Technical Lead, IAM Architect, Identity Architect or similar.
- Strong experience in solution architecture, HLDs and LLDs.
- Experience delivering IAM transformation within complex enterprise environments.
- Strong understanding of Authentication, Authorisation and Identity Lifecycle Management.
- Experience with Agile delivery, requirements engineering and backlog management.
- Strong stakeholder management and communication skills.
- Experience working across Architecture, Engineering, Security and Operations teams.
- Strong understanding of security, risk and compliance within enterprise environments.
- Experience working within financial services or another regulated environment is highly desirable.
Desirable Skills
- Human and Non-Human / Workload Identity.
- Zero Trust Architecture.
- Policy-as-Code.
- Secrets Management.
- Certificate Lifecycle Management.
- API Security.Event-driven Identity Integration.
- Cloud-native Security.
- Observability, Monitoring and Audit.
- Secure Software Development Lifecycle (SSDLC).
- DevSecOps and Automation.
- Experience managing third-party technology partners and suppliers.
This is an excellent opportunity to join a major Next Generation IAM transformation programme, providing technical leadership across enterprise identity architecture and delivering secure, scalable and modern identity capabilities within a global financial services environment.
#J-18808-Ljbffr…