IDAM Security Senior Architect

The team you’ll be working within is responsible for providing Identity and Access Management services to a wide range of clients. You’ll be working on projects to provide IAM solutions to clients, running IAM diagnostics, assisting with strategy definition and minimising IAM risk for clients. What you’ll be doing:

• Define IAM use cases, functional and non-functional solution requirements, and technical specifications, such as those for user authentication, access control, integration, performance and scalability requirements and specifications.
• Design and architect IAM solutions by creating high-level and low-level designs that align with business objectives and comply with industry cybersecurity standards.
• Creating high-level and low-level system architecture diagrams with technical descriptions of each component.
• Defining the system specifications to support optimal performance.
• Integrating workflows with third-party systems and security tools, such as Security Information and Event Management (SIEM) solutions, multi-factor authentication solutions, and cloud platforms like Amazon Web Services (AWS) and Azure.
• Develop technical documentation for IAM implementations including process documentation to enable solution operation (e.g., defining processes for user onboarding, access requests, identity governance, approval workflows, authentication workflows, and provisioning/de-provisioning tasks).
• Implement IAM solutions
• Install solution components in on-premise environments where relevant, or configuration of cloud components (and scripting / coding of plug-ins / extensions for cloud solutions)

• Broad enterprise identity experience across IGA, PAM, AM, AD, CIAM, with demonstrable ability to build identity strategies which integrate into client enterprise architectures and beyond.
• Experience of working with IGA, PAM, AM, AD, CIAM solutions such as SailPoint, Saviynt, etc.
• Experience working in a digital transformation environment supporting the definition of Identity architecture leveraging cloud native and/or other IAM solutions.
• Advanced, practical experience with cloud hosting services including, Amazon Web Services, Microsoft Azure, Google Cloud Platform.
• Hands-on experience of Microsoft Active Directory/Azure AD Domain Services, Federation Services, Certificate Services, DNS and DHCP.
• Understanding of decentralised identity, verifiable credentials, microservices and Trust over IP architecture stack.
• Experience with waterfall and agile type methodologies, often working within client-specified frameworks.
• Managing teams across a mix of locations, cultures, and experience levels.
• Detail oriented and strong problem-solving skills.
• Excellent oral and written communication skills.

Desirable:

• Understanding of malware and the modern threat landscape
• Relevant certifications (e.g. CIAM, CISSP, CAMS, etc.)
• Exposure to/Understanding of DevOps tools and repositories (e.g. Git, Azure DevOps, Kubernetes, Docker, Jenkins, Ansible etc.)
• Role-based access control (RBAC) design
• Practical experience with Linux operating systems
• Experience with Modern Authentication concepts e.g. Self-Service Identity, Bring your own Identity, SCIM, SAML, WS-Federation, OAuth, Open ID Connect

In addition to a salary of between £70,000 to £105,000, you’ll also receive a variety of benefits, such as:

• Annual bonus - % dependent on role seniority
• Car/cash allowance - £ dependent on role seniority
• Progression plans and growth opportunities within National and Global teams
• Good holidays and pension

Hays Technology are working with a global business consultancy organisation who are looking for a variety of Identity and Access Management professionals.