IAM Design SME (Zero Trust & Cloud Architecture)

• Produce end-to-end High-Level and Low-Level Designs (HLDs/LLDs).
• Define IAM architecture across Human, Agent and Workload Identity.
• Design Zero Trust, authentication, authorisation and federation solutions.
• Develop cloud-native architectures across GCP, Kubernetes and service mesh environments.
• Define secure API, service-to-service authentication and event-driven integration patterns.
• Design Policy-as-Code, PKI, certificate lifecycle and secrets management solutions.
• Drive architecture governance, design assurance and technical decision-making across multiple workstreams.
• Work with architects, engineering teams and senior stakeholders to deliver production-ready solutions.
• Take technical ownership of identity architecture and translate security, business and regulatory requirements into robust, scalable and supportable designs.

Technologies:

• API
• CI/CD
• Cloud
• DevSecOps
• GCP
• IAM
• Kubernetes
• SAML
• Security
• Architect

• Strong enterprise-level design experience and a proven track record delivering complex IAM or security architecture.
• Enterprise Architecture and Identity & Access Management (IAM) experience.
• Experience with authentication, authorisation, federation, OIDC, OAuth2, SAML and SCIM.
• Knowledge of Zero Trust, Agent Identity and Workload Identity.
• Experience with GCP, Kubernetes, service mesh and cloud architecture.
• Experience with API security, event-driven architecture and Policy-as-Code (OPA/Cedar).
• Knowledge of PKI, certificates, secrets management and DevSecOps/CI/CD.
• Experience with high availability, resilience and security architecture.
• Experience with architecture governance, stakeholder engagement and technical leadership.

We are seeking an IAM Design SME to join a major transformation programme at a leading UK bank, delivering next-generation Identity and Access Management capabilities. This high-impact role offers technical influence over how identity services are designed, integrated and delivered across a complex global enterprise. The contract is six months, rolling, at £540 per day, with three days per week in Sheffield.