IAM Technical Lead
IAM Technical Lead (Identity Transformation)
We're supporting a major financial services organisation undertaking a large-scale Identity & Access Management (IAM) transformation programme and are seeking an experienced IAM Technical Lead to drive architecture, design and delivery across a modern identity landscape.
This is a highly visible role focused on shaping next-generation identity capabilities across workforce, privileged, machine and emerging non-human identities within a complex enterprise environment.
Key Responsibilities
- Own the technical solution and architecture for IAM workstreams
- Produce and maintain High Level Designs (HLDs) and Low Level Designs (LLDs)
- Lead technical decision-making and solution design activities
- Drive Zero Trust and Identity-First architecture principles
- Define security, scalability, resilience and operational requirements
- Support design authorities, governance forums and architecture reviews
- Work closely with architects, engineers, security teams and third-party suppliers
- Provide technical leadership, mentoring and guidance to engineering teams
- Identify and manage technical risks, assumptions and dependencies
- Ensure solutions are production-ready and operationally supportable
Essential Experience
- Strong Identity & Access Management (IAM) architecture experience
- Enterprise-scale IAM transformation programmes
- Technical leadership within complex environments
- IAM governance, authentication and authorisation
- Zero Trust Architecture
- Identity Lifecycle Management
- Privileged Access Management (PAM)
- Microsoft Entra ID / Azure AD
- HLDs, LLDs and architecture governance
- Security-by-Design principles
- Agile delivery environments
- Stakeholder management across technical and business teams
- Financial Services, Banking or other regulated environments
Desirable Experience
- Human and Non-Human Identity
- Workload Identity
- Machine Identity
- Agent Identity
- Policy-as-Code
- Secrets Management
- Certificate Lifecycle Management
- API Security
- DevSecOps and Automation
- Observability, Monitoring and Audit
- CyberArk, SailPoint, Saviynt, Ping, ForgeRock or similar IAM technologies
- Cloud Security Architecture (Azure / AWS)
Ideal Background
We are particularly interested in candidates from:
- Banking
- Financial Services
- FinTech
- Insurance
- Enterprise Security Architecture
- IAM Architecture
- Identity Governance & Administration (IGA)
- Privileged Access Management (PAM)
If you're an experienced IAM Architect or Technical Lead looking to play a key role in a major identity transformation programme, we'd love to hear from you.
GCS is acting as an Employment Business in relation to this vacancy.
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