Identity Architect​/IAM Architect

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.

Own the end-to-end architecture across development, data and service support work streams.

Provide technical direction across identity workflows, life cycle 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.

Lead architecture across enterprise identity and access management capabilities.

Provide oversight of identity life cycle 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.

Understand and challenge detailed identity designs, including schemas, attributes, data models, workflow rules, provisioning logic and integration behaviour.

Review APIs, data feeds, directory integrations, microservices, ETL/transformation logic and platform configuration.

Work with developers, data specialists, Dev Ops engineers and service teams to diagnose complex issues and make practical design decisions.

Provide architecture support during defect analysis, root-cause investigation, service support and backlog refinement.

Move comfortably between architecture diagrams, backlog items, logs, schemas, interface specifications and implementation detail.

Identify where existing components should be retained, simplified, consolidated, retired or replaced with simpler patterns.

Ensure architectural decisions are technically sound, supportable in live service, and understood by the teams who need to build and run them.

Review existing platform complexity, including interfaces, microservices, custom components and integration patterns.

Shape practical options for reducing complexity and improving supportability.

Support API-based integration patterns where they reduce complexity and improve resilience.

Work with cloud/platform specialists to identify monitoring, resilience, containerisation and operational improvement opportunities.

Provide architectural input into future identity patterns, including Microsoft Entra-aligned options where appropriate.

Reduce complexity without driving unnecessary re-engineering or business disruption.

Work closely with Service Operations, L2/L3 support, Data, Dev and Dev Ops teams to improve ownership and reduce dependency on specialist intervention.

Support the development of runbooks, operational models, support routes and knowledge-transfer material.

Ensure the architecture is supportable by BAU, not just deliverable by project teams.

Help distinguish between application, data, infrastructure, supplier and service-operation ownership.

Support incident and problem analysis where architectural input is required.

Strong enterprise identity and access management experience.

Proven experience as a lead or senior architect on complex live platforms.

Experience working in secure…