- Location
- Leeds
- Workplace
- Onsite
- Type
- Full-time
- Department
- IT
- Closing date
- Today
- Source
- Vincere
Description
Technical/Security Architect – Identity & Access Management (IAM)
📍 Leeds (on-site once every two weeks)
💰 £620 per day (Inside IR35)
📅 Contract until December 2026
🚀 Target start date: 23rd March 2026
Overview
We are seeking an experienced Technical Architect specialising in Identity and Access Management (IAM) to support the design and delivery of secure identity solutions across a complex enterprise environment.
This role will work closely with senior stakeholders, delivery teams and vendors to shape IAM architecture, guide technical decision-making, and ensure interoperability and security across platforms and services.
You will play a key role in translating complex technical challenges into clear architectural approaches, while providing assurance and oversight across IAM components and integrations.
Key Responsibilities
- Clarify and contextualise technical options for senior decision-makers, enabling informed strategic and architectural decisions
- Disambiguate complex technical situations and help stakeholders focus on the underlying problems and appropriate solutions
- Develop technical patterns and reference architectures covering authentication, authorisation, federation, identity lifecycle, and attribute management
- Bring together technical designs from multiple teams and create and maintain architecture decision records and decision logs
- Work closely with delivery teams, vendors and programmes to ensure interoperability and alignment with enterprise standards
- Provide technical assurance, risk assessment and architectural oversight across IAM components and integrations
- Contribute to the definition and evolution of IAM policies, standards and best-practice guidance
- Support engineering teams in embedding IAM capabilities into automated CI/CD pipelines to improve reliability, security and delivery velocity
Required Experience
- Strong experience designing and delivering Identity and Access Management architectures
- Experience working with modern authentication protocols such as OIDC, OAuth2 and SAML
- Experience with identity platforms and directory/identity data models
- Strong experience with Microsoft Entra (Azure AD)
- Experience designing solutions within Azure cloud environments
- Experience working within complex enterprise or large-scale environments
- Ability to communicate complex architectural concepts clearly to both technical and non-technical stakeholders
Desirable Experience
- Experience with AWS environments
- Understanding of networking concepts within large-scale enterprise architectures
- Experience working with federated identity and cross-platform authentication models
- Experience operating within multi-vendor environments and large delivery programmes
Apply now or email [email protected] for more information.
