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TECHNICAL LEAD - IDENTITY & ACCESS MANAGEMENT (IAM) - CONTRACT

Sheffield | Hybrid (1-3 Days On-Site)
Until 30th November 2026 | High Chance of Extension
£600-650 Per Day | Umbrella (Inside IR35)

THE PROJECT

A global financial services organisation is delivering a large-scale Identity & Access Management (IAM) transformation and is looking for an experienced Technical Lead to help shape and deliver next-generation identity services. This is an opportunity to lead the technical direction of a major enterprise programme, driving secure, scalable IAM solutions across a complex global environment.

Lead the technical design and architecture for enterprise IAM solutions.Define and maintain High & Low Level Designs (HLDs/LLDs).Drive technical decision-making, solution governance, and technology selection.Ensure alignment with security, enterprise architecture, and regulatory standards.Champion Zero Trust and Identity-First security principles.Provide technical leadership, mentoring, and design assurance across engineering teams.Support delivery planning, technical risk management, and cross-team integration.Ensure solutions are secure, resilient, scalable, and production-ready.SKILLS NEEDEDProven experience leading enterprise IAM programmes within Financial Services.Strong background in Identity & Access Management, Authentication, and Authorisation.Experience designing secure, scalable architectures in complex enterprise environments.Knowledge of Zero Trust, Identity Lifecycle Management, Secrets Management, and API Security.Experience with DevSecOps, Secure SDLC, cloud-native security, and automation.Strong stakeholder management and communication skills across technical and business teams.Experience working within Agile delivery environments.

Bonus: Experience with Workload Identity, Policy-as-Code, Certificate Lifecycle Management, Event-Driven Identity Integration, and Observability.

YOUR IMPACT

You'll play a key role in transforming enterprise Identity & Access Management for a global banking organisation, helping deliver secure, scalable identity services that underpin critical business operations. Your technical leadership will shape future architecture, improve operational resilience, and support the delivery of one of the organisation's largest security transformation programmes.

Sound good? Apply ASAP - this opportunity is expected to move quickly.

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TECHNICAL LEAD - IDENTITY & ACCESS MANAGEMENT (IAM) - CONTRACT

Sheffield | Hybrid (1-3 Days On-Site)
Until 30th November 2026 | High Chance of Extension
£600-650 Per Day | Umbrella (Inside IR35)

THE PROJECT

A global financial services organisation is delivering a large-scale Identity & Access Management (IAM) transformation and is looking for an experienced Technical Lead to help shape and deliver next-generation identity services. This is an opportunity to lead the technical direction of a major enterprise programme, driving secure, scalable IAM solutions across a complex global environment.

Lead the technical design and architecture for enterprise IAM solutions.Define and maintain High & Low Level Designs (HLDs/LLDs).Drive technical decision-making, solution governance, and technology selection.Ensure alignment with security, enterprise architecture, and regulatory standards.Champion Zero Trust and Identity-First security principles.Provide technical leadership, mentoring, and design assurance across engineering teams.Support delivery planning, technical risk management, and cross-team integration.Ensure solutions are secure, resilient, scalable, and production-ready.SKILLS NEEDEDProven experience leading enterprise IAM programmes within Financial Services.Strong background in Identity & Access Management, Authentication, and Authorisation.Experience designing secure, scalable architectures in complex enterprise environments.Knowledge of Zero Trust, Identity Lifecycle Management, Secrets Management, and API Security.Experience with DevSecOps, Secure SDLC, cloud-native security, and automation.Strong stakeholder management and communication skills across technical and business teams.Experience working within Agile delivery environments.

Bonus: Experience with Workload Identity, Policy-as-Code, Certificate Lifecycle Management, Event-Driven Identity Integration, and Observability.

YOUR IMPACT

You'll play a key role in transforming enterprise Identity & Access Management for a global banking organisation, helping deliver secure, scalable identity services that underpin critical business operations. Your technical leadership will shape future architecture, improve operational resilience, and support the delivery of one of the organisation's largest security transformation programmes.

Sound good? Apply ASAP - this opportunity is expected to move quickly.

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Senior IAM Engineer (Microsoft Entra ID)

Dublin (Hybrid) | 12-Month Daily Rate Contract | Competitive Day Rate

We're working with a well-established enterprise organisation embarking on a significant Identity & Access Management transformation. They're looking for an experienced Senior IAM Engineer with deep expertise across the Microsoft identity stack, particularly Microsoft Entra ID, to play a key role in strengthening and modernising their identity security capabilities.

This is a hands-on engineering role where you'll design, implement and enhance secure identity solutions across a complex Microsoft environment.

Key Responsibilities

Design, implement and support Microsoft Entra ID solutions across the organisation.

Lead the implementation and optimisation of Conditional Access policies and authentication controls.

Configure and manage Multi-Factor Authentication (MFA), Passwordless Authentication and Self-Service Password Reset (SSPR).

Drive Zero Trust identity initiatives and improve the organisation's overall security posture.

Manage identity lifecycle processes, including Joiner, Mover and Leaver workflows.

Integrate cloud and on-premises identities using Entra Connect and Cloud Sync.

Administer Privileged Identity Management (PIM) and privileged access controls.

Implement Identity Governance capabilities, including Access Reviews and Entitlement Management.

Support Microsoft Defender for Identity and identity threat detection initiatives.

Automate identity administration using PowerShell and Microsoft Graph API.

Collaborate with Cyber Security, Infrastructure and Cloud teams to deliver secure identity solutions.

Produce technical documentation and provide knowledge transfer where required.

Required Experience

5+ years' experience working within Identity & Access Management.

Strong hands-on experience with Microsoft Entra ID (Azure AD).

Proven experience implementing and managing Conditional Access policies.

Experience with Multi-Factor Authentication, Passwordless Authentication and modern identity security controls.

Hands-on experience with Privileged Identity Management (PIM).

Experience with Identity Governance, Access Reviews and Entitlement Management.

Knowledge of Hybrid Identity, Active Directory and Entra Connect.

Strong understanding of authentication protocols including SAML, OAuth 2.0 and OpenID Connect.

Experience implementing Zero Trust security principles.

Strong PowerShell scripting skills.

Excellent communication skills with the ability to engage technical and non-technical stakeholders.

What's on Offer

Initial 12-month daily rate contract with strong extension potential.

Hybrid working arrangement.

Opportunity to work on a large-scale Microsoft Identity transformation programme.

Exposure to the latest Microsoft Identity and Security technologies.

Collaborative, highly skilled technical environment.

Interested?

If this sounds like the right opportunity for you, we'd love to hear from you. Apply today or get in touch for a confidential discussion.

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Role Summary

We are looking for a highly skilled Automation Test engineer with expertise in Identity and Access management (IAM) back-end validation. Skilled in identity orchestration, API testing, data ingestion and transformation, and event-driven (Pub/Sub) architectures. This role focuses on testing secure, scalable identity and access workflows across Google Cloud Platform, integrating identity services with custom APIs, Pub/Sub pipelines, and cloud-native applications.

Using an automation first approach, you will collaborate closely with tech leads, Cloud Security, DevOps, and Application Engineering teams to thoroughly test robust IAM, identity lifecycle workflows, and secure service integrations that support enterprise-level cloud and Identity operations.

Key Responsibilities

Build and maintain an automated test framework and suites for API, event, and graph-based services (Python/PyTest).Define and execute test plans/cases/data aligned to requirements and technical specs; maintain FR/NFR traceability.Validate IAM concepts and access models (RBAC/ABAC/ReBAC/PBAC) and test decision points "as code" (policy-as-code).Perform API automation, contract testing, and replay/reprocessing scenarios.Validate graph data (nodes/relationships/hop logic) and event lineage/change behaviour. Experience in Neo4J is preferred.Produce regulatory evidence as required; support entry/exit criteria and test governance activities.Create/manage Jenkins pipelines to manage tests executions and reporting as part of CI/CD.Log, track, and drive defects through triage to closure (JIRA/ Zephyr); communicate progress to stakeholders.Collaborate with Cloud Security, DevOps, and Engineering teams; contribute to improving testability and quality.

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Key Responsibilities:

In this role, you will:

Design, build, and maintain CI/CD pipelines for IAM components, policies, connectors, microservices, and integrations.Enable automated testing, security scanning, and controlled deployments across DEV/TEST/PROD environments.Implement continuous improvement to streamline IAM release processes.Develop and maintain IaC (Terraform, Ansible for deploying IAM infrastructure, identity policies, directories, and supporting platforms.Ensure consistent, repeatable environments and compliance with architectural standards.Develop scripts and automation for account lifecycle operations, access provisioning, and system integrations.Deploy IAM services or related microservices on Kubernetes, cloud-native platforms, and serverless environments.Manage containerisation, service mesh integrations, certificates, and secrets for IAM workloads.Embed security into the build and deployment process, including vulnerability scanning, secrets detection, and code quality checks.Work with cybersecurity teams to ensure compliance with Zero Trust principles and IAM security policies.Collaborate with IAM architects, security teams, and application owners on design and integration requirements.Create and maintain documentation for pipelines, IaC, deployment patterns, and operational processes.

To be successful in this role, you should meet the following requirements:

Key Skills & Experience

Technical Skills

Infrastructure as code (Terraform & GCP Provisioning) Terraform core, GCP Infra, Policy as code, develop the capability to manage, maintain and write policies,Containerization & Kubernetes (GKE), Docker, Kubernetes, Helm / Kustomize, GKE OpsCI/CD engineering, pipeline authoring, artifacts management, testing automation, deployment strategyData pipeline and DevOps (KAFKA / PubSub) - Kafka basics, schema registry, streaming infra and monitoringGraph platform engineering, Neo4j basics, backups, recovery and DR GDS/APOC, observabilityDevSecOps & platform security, security scanning, IAM and identity, network security, complianceRelease engineering and governance, release ops, change management, documentationRegionalisation and compliance, regional deployments and failover, data residency, conditional access

Soft Skills

Strong problem-solving and troubleshooting capabilities.Ability to work collaboratively across security, engineering, and operations teams.Excellent communication and documentation skills.Experience working in Agile/Scrum environments.Experience of Privileged Access Management and identity access managementUnderstanding and experience of technologies deployed at a large scale in a global IT enterpriseExperience of working in an Agile team - managing workload in Jira and engagements in Jira Service DeskAbility to adapt and understand new technologies - being self-motivated to learnStrong interpersonal, influencing, communication and report-writing skillsAbility to interact appropriately with users of various technical skill levelsAbility to work in a multi country, culturally diverse and time-zone separated role.

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In this role, you will:

Design, build, and maintain CI/CD pipelines for IAM components, policies, connectors, microservices, and integrations.Enable automated testing, security scanning, and controlled deployments across DEV/TEST/PROD environments.Implement continuous improvement to streamline IAM release processes.Develop and maintain IaC (Terraform, Ansible for deploying IAM infrastructure, identity policies, directories, and supporting platforms.Ensure consistent, repeatable environments and compliance with architectural standards.Develop scripts and automation for account lifecycle operations, access provisioning, and system integrations.Deploy IAM services or related microservices on Kubernetes, cloud-native platforms, and serverless environments.Manage containerisation, service mesh integrations, certificates, and secrets for IAM workloads.Embed security into the build and deployment process, including vulnerability scanning, secrets detection, and code quality checks.Work with cybersecurity teams to ensure compliance with Zero Trust principles and IAM security policies.Collaborate with IAM architects, security teams, and application owners on design and integration requirements.Create and maintain documentation for pipelines, IaC, deployment patterns, and operational processes.

To be successful in this role, you should meet the following requirements:

Key Skills & Experience

Technical Skills

Infrastructure as code (Terraform & GCP Provisioning) Terraform core, GCP Infra, Policy as code, develop the capability to manage, maintain and write policies,Containerization & Kubernetes (GKE), Docker, Kubernetes, Helm / Kustomize, GKE OpsCI/CD engineering, pipeline authoring, artifacts management, testing automation, deployment strategyData pipeline and DevOps (KAFKA / PubSub) - Kafka basics, schema registry, streaming infra and monitoringGraph platform engineering, Neo4j basics, backups, recovery and DR GDS/APOC, observabilityDevSecOps & platform security, security scanning, IAM and identity, network security, complianceRelease engineering and governance, release ops, change management, documentationRegionalisation and compliance, regional deployments and failover, data residency, conditional access

Soft Skills

Strong problem-solving and troubleshooting capabilities.Ability to work collaboratively across security, engineering, and operations teams.Excellent communication and documentation skills.Experience working in Agile/Scrum environments.Experience of Privileged Access Management and identity access managementUnderstanding and experience of technologies deployed at a large scale in a global IT enterpriseExperience of working in an Agile team - managing workload in Jira and engagements in Jira Service DeskAbility to adapt and understand new technologies - being self-motivated to learnStrong interpersonal, influencing, communication and report-writing skillsAbility to interact appropriately with users of various technical skill levelsAbility to work in a multi country, culturally diverse and time-zone separated role.

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Responsibilities will include

Experience automating application build, configuration, and maintenance within a Windows environmentStrong Ansible, PowerShell, Github and REST skillsStrong Windows operating system experience knowledgeStrong troubleshooting skillsProven experience of working in a global scale highly regulated environment with focus on security, resilience, and automationStrong skills in Windows operating systems and support of large infrastructures at a senior levelStrong experience in developing with at least one scripting languageCandidates should be self-motivated, able to work on tasks unsupervised and have strong communication skillsBe a positive team player working as part of a large programmeBe Accountable for deliverables and proven track record of delivering to the schedule

Skills required (Previous Hands-on Experience)

Creating PowerShell scripts from the startManaging code repositories within GitHubBuilding automation tasks to be deployed using AnsibleWriting API's to obtain parameters or send parameters to and from target systems

Desirable skills

Strong skills and experience with PAM tools, Delinea Secret Server preferredMS-SQL experienceExperience working with global teams within a large banking organisationExperience of using HashiCorp Vault or similar Secrets Management Solution

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