Identity & Access Management Architect (SC Cleared)

The role requires someone who can set direction with senior stakeholders, provide clear design authority, and work closely with engineering, data and service teams on detailed technical issues. This includes identity schemas, attributes, data flows, APIs, microservices, integration patterns, workflow behaviour, platform configuration and live-service supportability.

The successful candidate will help ensure the platform remains stable, supportable and capable of evolving over time, while reducing avoidable complexity across processes, integrations and technical components.

Security Clearance: Active SC Clearance (Mandatory)
Location: Hybrid (2 days per week onsite)

Architecture Leadership

• Own the end-to-end architecture across development, data and service support workstreams.
• Provide technical direction across identity workflows, lifecycle processes, integrations, data flows, platform behaviour and operational supportability.
• Act as the senior architecture point of contact for delivery teams, service teams, suppliers and customer stakeholders.
• Maintain architectural coherence across live-service change, backlog delivery, technical debt reduction and roadmap activity.
• Ensure design decisions are pragmatic, supportable and aligned to business value.

Identity Platform Architecture

• Lead architecture across enterprise identity and access management capabilities.
• Provide oversight of identity lifecycle processes including onboarding, profile changes, role and access changes, recertification, leaver handling, audit and reporting.
• Understand complex identity integrations across directories, authoritative sources, workflow systems, cloud-hosted services and downstream platforms.
• Support simplification of identity journeys, data feeds, interfaces and platform components.
• Identify opportunities to reduce avoidable customisation and use existing platform capability where appropriate.