IAM Solutions Architect

Cathcart Technology
Dalkeith, United Kingdom
2 days ago

Role details

Contract type
Permanent contract
Employment type
Full-time (> 32 hours)
Working hours
Regular working hours
Languages
English
Experience level
Senior
Compensation
£ 97K

Job location

Dalkeith, United Kingdom

Tech stack

API
User Authentication
Cloud Computing
Cloud Engineering
Computer Security
Continuous Integration
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)
Policy as Code
Google Cloud Platform
Istio
System Availability
Software Security
Event Driven Architecture
Kubernetes
Api Design
Devsecops

Job description

  • 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, authorisation, human identity, agent identity, 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

Technologies:

  • API
  • CI/CD
  • Cloud
  • DevSecOps
  • GCP
  • IAM
  • Support
  • Kubernetes
  • SAML
  • Security
  • Architect, We are supporting a major financial services transformation programme focused on modernising enterprise Identity & Access Management (IAM) capabilities. This is a hybrid role based in Sheffield, with three days per week onsite. The contract is initial until the end of the year with a view to extend long-term, and it sits inside IR35. You will play a key technical leadership role in shaping secure, scalable and cloud-native identity services within a large, complex enterprise environment, working closely with architects, engineering teams, security specialists and business stakeholders.

Requirements

  • Strong background in Enterprise Solution Architecture
  • Extensive experience delivering Identity & Access Management (IAM) solutions
  • Experience with authentication, authorisation and identity federation (OIDC, OAuth2, SAML, SCIM)
  • Experience with Zero Trust Architecture
  • Experience with agent identity and workload identity
  • Cloud architecture experience, particularly Google Cloud Platform (GCP)
  • Experience with Kubernetes and service mesh
  • Experience with API architecture and API security
  • Experience with event-driven architecture
  • Experience with policy-as-code (OPA, Cedar or similar)
  • Experience with PKI, certificates and secrets management
  • Experience with DevSecOps and CI/CD
  • Experience designing high availability, disaster recovery and resilience solutions
  • Experience in security architecture
  • Experience with architecture governance and design reviews
  • Strong stakeholder management and technical leadership experience

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