Senior Identity Consultant

Senior Identity Consultant Join a consultancy team delivering complex identity transformation programmes across Active Directory, Microsoft Entra  hybrid environments. This customer-facing opportunity suits someone with strong consultancy, migration and stakeholder leadership skills. This role is officially known as a Senior Consultant (Identity & Access) If you've also worked in the following roles, we'd also like to hear from you: IAM Consultant, Identity & Access Management Consultant, Identity Consultant, Digital Identity Consultant, Senior IAM Consultant, IAM Delivery Consultant, Microsoft Identity Consultant, Active Directory Consultant, Identity Security Consultant, Entra  Benefits include 25 days' holiday plus bank holidays, income protection, a Health Cash Plan, death in service cover and training and development.

SALARY:
Competitive  Benefits

LOCATION:

Remote / Home Based - with UK and international customer-site travel and travel to Bristol HQ JOB TYPE:
Full-Time, Fixed-Term Contract until 31 March 2027

WORKING HOURS:

Monday to Friday, 37.5 Hours per Week JOB OVERVIEW An excellent opportunity is available for a Senior Identity Consultant to shape complex identity transformation programmes and practical delivery plans. The Senior Identity Consultant will lead discovery, design and planning, turning customer requirements, risks and dependencies into clear approaches. Success as the Senior Identity Consultant will involve guiding Active Directory migration, Microsoft Entra  hybrid identity decisions with project, security, infrastructure, application and partner teams.

Remote working is supported, with UK and international customer-site travel and travel to Bristol HQ required. DUTIES Your duties as the Senior Identity Consultant include:
Discovery, Design and Planning:
Lead customer workshops, assess current-state environments and shape clear target-state approaches Active Directory Transformation:
Plan forest and domain migrations, consolidations, separations, coexistence and cutover activity Identity Architecture:
Advise on trusts, DNS, OU structure, Group Policy, delegation, security baselines and migration readiness Hybrid Identity Consultancy:
Provide guidance across Microsoft Entra , Entra Connect, directory synchronisation, authentication methods, Conditional Access, Entra trust, Entra External , identity governance and related security controls Migration Delivery:
Support pilots, migration waves, validation, rollback and hypercare using appropriate migration tooling Technical Documentation:
Produce discovery findings, designs, migration approaches, workshop summaries, decision records, migration plans, runbooks, test plans, validation evidence and handover material Stakeholder Communication:
Adapt technical detail for technical and non-technical audiences and provide clear updates on progress, risks, issues and decisions

Cross-Functional Collaboration:

Work with project managers, architects, security, infrastructure, application teams and external partners to support successful delivery CANDIDATE REQUIREMENTS ESSENTIAL Strong customer-facing consultancy experience leading discovery, design and planning activity Demonstrable experience delivering or advising on large-scale Active Directory migrations and restructures Strong Active Directory knowledge Strong Microsoft Entra  hybrid identity skills Experience using migration tooling such as Quest On Demand Migration, Quest Migration Manager, ADMT or similar Confident workshop leadership, requirements capture, decision-making and high-quality technical documentation Clear communication with technical and non-technical stakeholders Right to Work in the UK;

visa sponsorship is not available for this role Willingness to travel…