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# Design SME - IAM

- **Company:** Vallum Associates
- **Location:** London, UK
- **Salary:** £91,234.0
- **Contract:** Permanent contract
- **Skills:** Application Programming Interfaces (APIs), User Authentication, Cloud Computing, Cloud Engineering, Cyber Security, Continuous Integration, DevOps, Disaster Recovery, Federated Identity Management, Identity and Access Management, Key Management, OAuth, OpenID, Public Key Infrastructure, Zero Trust Network Access, Security Assertion Markup Language (SAML), Software Technical Review, Policy as Code, Istio, System Availability, Software Security, Event Driven Architecture, Kubernetes, Api Design, Devsecops
- **Published:** October 10, 2026
- **Apply:** https://www.adzuna.co.uk/jobs/details/5922026755

## About the Role

* Enterprise Architecture
 * Identity and Access Management (IAM)
 * Authentication and authorisation
 * Zero Trust Architecture
 * Agent Identity and Workload Identity
 * Identity federation: OIDC, OAuth2, SAML and SCIM
 * Cloud architecture, particularly GCP
 * Kubernetes and service mesh
 * API architecture and security
 * Event-driven architecture
 * Policy-as-Code, including OPA and Cedar
 * PKI, certificates and secrets management
 * DevSecOps and CI/CD
 * High availability and resilience design
 * Security architecture
 * Architecture governance
 * Stakeholder management
 * Technical leadership

## Description

* Produce high-level and low-level designs for identity capabilities.
 * Define end-to-end technical solutions across business, application, data and infrastructure domains.
 * Translate business, security and regulatory requirements into technical solutions.
 * Develop reference architectures, patterns and design standards for the programme.
 * Define integration patterns between identity platforms, applications and infrastructure.
 * Design cloud-native solutions for GCP and Kubernetes environments.
 * Define authentication, authorisation and federation architectures.
 * Design Agent Identity, Human Identity and Workload Identity capabilities.
 * Define Zero Trust security architecture and trust boundaries.
 * Design API security, service-to-service authentication and workload authentication patterns.
 * Develop event-driven integration architectures using messaging and asynchronous processing.
 * Design Policy Decision Point (PDP) and Policy Enforcement Point (PEP) architectures using Policy-as-Code.
 * Define secrets management, certificate lifecycle and PKI integration patterns.
 * Design resilience, disaster recovery and high-availability architectures.
 * Ensure solutions meet non-functional requirements for security, scalability, resilience and performance.
 * Produce architecture decision records (ADRs) and design documentation.
 * Support governance through Architecture Review Boards and Design Authorities.
 * Perform solution assurance and technical design reviews across supplier deliveries.
 * Identify technical risks, assumptions, constraints and dependencies.
 * Collaborate with Enterprise Architecture to ensure alignment with strategic architecture.
 * Work with Product Owners to refine technical requirements and delivery priorities.
 * Support engineering teams throughout implementation, testing and production readiness.
 * Mentor engineers and promote engineering best practice.
 * Evaluate new technologies and vendor products against programme requirements.
 * Contribute to roadmap planning and future-state architecture.

Technologies:

 * API
 * CI/CD
 * Cloud
 * DevSecOps
 * GCP
 * IAM
 * Support
 * Kubernetes
 * SAML
 * Security
 * DevOps

More:

We are seeking an architecture professional to shape identity capabilities and technical solutions across a programme. The role focuses on identity, cloud-native and security architecture, with collaboration across Enterprise Architecture, Product Owners, suppliers and engineering teams.