Senior Identity Consultant

Senior Identity Consultant

An excellent opportunity for a customer-focused Senior Identity Consultant to support complex enterprise identity transformation programmes across Active Directory, Microsoft Entra  hybrid identity environments on a fixed term contract basis.

If you've also worked in the following roles, we'd also like to hear from you:
Identity Consultant, IAM Consultant, Identity and Access Management Consultant, Digital Identity Consultant, Active Directory Consultant, Active Directory Migration Consultant, Identity Migration Consultant, Microsoft Identity Consultant, Microsoft Entra Consultant, Hybrid Identity Consultant, IT Consultant

SALARY: £60,000 - £75,000 per annum (dependant on experience) + Benefits

LOCATION: Remote / Home Based - with occasional travel to customer sites UK-wide and the Bristol office when required

JOB TYPE: 6 Month Full-Time, Contract

WORKING HOURS: Monday to Friday (37.5 Hours per Week)

JOB OVERVIEW

We have a fantastic new job opportunity for a Senior Identity Consultant with strong consultancy experience, excellent stakeholder communication skills and a solid background in Active Directory, Microsoft Entra  hybrid identity.

Working as the Senior Identity Consultant, you will lead discovery, design and planning activity with customers, partners and internal delivery teams, helping to turn complex technical requirements, risks and dependencies into clear, practical delivery approaches.

As the Senior Identity Consultant, you will support enterprise identity transformation work, including Active Directory migration and restructure activity, hybrid identity planning, customer workshops, technical documentation and delivery readiness.

This role would suit someone who is consultative, calm under pressure and confident leading complex identity conversations while producing clear outputs that support successful customer outcomes.

DUTIES

Your duties as the Senior Identity Consultant include:

• Lead Discovery and Design Activity: Work with customers, partners and internal teams to understand business drivers, technical requirements, risks, dependencies and delivery priorities
• Plan Identity Transformation: Shape practical approaches for Active Directory, Microsoft Entra  hybrid identity programmes
• Support Active Directory Migration: Advise on forest and domain migrations, consolidations, separations, coexistence and cutover planning
• Assess Current-State Environments: Review trusts, DNS, OU structure, Group Policy, delegation, security baselines and migration readiness
• Develop Target-State Designs: Produce clear recommendations that align identity decisions with infrastructure, endpoint, application and operational requirements
• Advise on Microsoft Entra : Provide consultancy input across Entra Connect, directory synchronisation, authentication, Conditional Access, Entra trust, External  identity governance
• Produce Technical Documentation: Create discovery findings, design documents, migration approaches, workshop summaries, decision records, runbooks, test plans, validation evidence and handover material
• Manage Stakeholder Communication: Communicate clearly with technical and non-technical audiences, adapting detail to suit the situation
• Support Delivery Governance: Provide updates on progress, risks, issues and decisions throughout the engagement lifecycle

CANDIDATE REQUIREMENTS

ESSENTIAL

• Strong consultancy experience in customer-facing environments
• Proven ability to lead discovery, design and planning activity
• Demonstrable experience delivering or advising on large-scale Active Directory migrations and restructures
• Strong knowledge of Active Directory, including trusts, DNS, OU structure, Group Policy, delegation and security baselines
• Strong Microsoft Entra  hybrid identity skills
• Experience using migration tooling such as Quest On Demand Migration, Quest Migration Manager, ADMT or similar
• Excellent communication skills with the confidence to work with technical and non-technical stakeholders
• Ability to produce high-quality written outputs including design documents, migration plans, runbooks and handover material
• Calm, structured and customer-focused approach to complex technical…