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# IAM Design SME (Zero Trust & Cloud Architecture)

- **Company:** 17918
- **Location:** Cleckheaton, UK
- **Salary:** £140,400.0
- **Contract:** Temporary contract
- **Skills:** User Authentication, Cloud Engineering, Cyber Security, Continuous Integration, Identity and Access Management, Key Management, OAuth, OpenID, Public Key Infrastructure, Zero Trust Network Access, Security Assertion Markup Language (SAML), Policy as Code, Google Cloud, Istio, System Availability, Software Security, Event Driven Architecture, Kubernetes, Devsecops
- **Published:** October 15, 2026
- **Apply:** https://www.apply4u.co.uk/jobs/iam-design-sme-zero-trust-cloud-architecture/51810335

## About the Role

cloud-native architectures across GCP, Kubernetes and service mesh environments. Defining secure API, service-to-service authentication and event-driven integration patterns. Designing Policy-as-Code, PKI, certificate lifecycle and secrets management solutions. Driving architecture governance, design assurance and technical decision-making across multiple workstreams. Working closely with architects, engineering teams and senior stakeholders to deliver production-ready solutions. Expereince: We're looking for someone with strong enterprise-level design experience and a proven track record delivering complex IAM or security architecture. Key experience includes: Enterprise Architecture and Identity & Access Management (IAM). Authentication, authorisation, federation and OIDC, OAuth2, SAML and SCIM. Zero Trust, Agent Identity and Workload Identity. GCP, Kubernetes, service mesh and cloud architecture. API security, event-driven architecture and Policy-as-Code (OPA/Cedar). PKI, certificates,
secrets management and DevSecOps/CI/CD. High availability, resilience and security architecture. Architecture governance, stakeholder engagement and technical leadership. If you're an IAM design specialist who can bridge enterprise architecture, identity security and hands-on engineering design, please feel free to submit your CV TPBN1_UKTJ

## Description

Job title: IAM Design SME (Zero Trust & Cloud Architecture) Rate: £540 per day Location: Sheffield - 3 days per week Contract: 6 months rolling We're looking for an experienced IAM Design SME to join a major transformation programme at a leading UK bank, delivering next-generation Identity and Access Management (IAM) capabilities. This is a high-impact opportunity to take technical ownership of identity architecture, define secure cloud-native solutions and influence how identity services are designed, integrated and delivered across a complex global enterprise. You'll act as a technical authority across the programme, translating complex security, business and regulatory requirements into robust, scalable and supportable designs. You'll be responsible for: Producing end-to-end High-Level and Low-Level Designs (HLDs/LLDs). Defining IAM architecture across Human, Agent and Workload Identity. Designing Zero Trust, authentication, authorisation and federation solutions. Developing