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IAM Solutions Architect Contract
Sheffield, South Yorkshire | £575 - £600 | Contract
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Craig Russell
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Solution Architect - Identity & Access Management (IAM)
Hybrid Sheffield - 3 days per week onsite
£575 - 600 per day Inside IR35
Initial contract until end of the year with view to extend long-term
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.
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.
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.
What You'll Be Doing
- Define end-to-end solution architecture across business, application, data and infrastructure domains.
- Produce High Level Designs (HLDs), Low Level Designs (LLDs) and Architecture Decision Records (ADRs).
- Translate business, security and regulatory requirements into secure technical solutions.
- Design modern IAM capabilities covering:
- Authentication and Authorisation
- Human, Agent and Workload Identity
- Identity Federation
- API Security
- Policy-as-Code
- Secrets Management and PKI
- Design cloud-native architectures using Google Cloud Platform (GCP) and Kubernetes.
- Define integration patterns between identity platforms, applications and infrastructure.
- Develop resilient, highly available and scalable architectures.
- Support Architecture Review Boards and technical governance.
- Review supplier designs and provide technical assurance across multiple workstreams.
- Work closely with Product Owners and engineering teams throughout delivery.
- Mentor engineers and promote architectural best practice.
- Evaluate new technologies and contribute to the long-term architecture roadmap.
Essential Skills & Experience
- Strong background in Enterprise Solution Architecture
- Extensive experience delivering Identity & Access Management (IAM) solutions
- Authentication, Authorisation and Identity Federation (OIDC, OAuth2, SAML, SCIM)
- Zero Trust Architecture
- Agent Identity and Workload Identity
- Cloud Architecture, particularly Google Cloud Platform (GCP)
- Kubernetes and Service Mesh
- API Architecture and API Security
- Event-Driven Architecture
- Policy-as-Code (OPA, Cedar or similar)
- PKI, Certificates and Secrets Management
- DevSecOps and CI/CD
- High Availability, Disaster Recovery and Resilience Design
- Security Architecture
- Architecture Governance and Design Reviews
- Strong stakeholder management and technical leadership experience
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.
Cathcart Technology is acting as an Employment Business in relation to this vacancy.
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