Cyber IAM Design SME

We are a Global Recruitment specialist that provides support to the clients across EMEA, APAC, US and Canada. We have an excellent job opportunity for you.

Role Title: Cyber IAM Design SME
Location: Sheffield - 3 days onsite/week
Duration: 20th Dec 2026 (with the possibility of an extension)
Rate: £554 per day(PAYE through FCSA Umbrella)

Role Description:
The Design SME will play a key role in delivering and operating enterprise Identity & Access Management (IAM) capabilities. Provides technical leadership across the IDAM 2.0 workstream, defining the target architecture and ensuring successful delivery of secure, scalable and supportable identity services.
The position works closely with IAM architects, business stakeholders and technology partners.
Client are undergoing a transformation of its Identity and Access Management practices including the delivery of a set of net new tools to overhaul how IAM is carried out in the industry. We are seeking experienced and dynamic Design SME who have an excellent understanding of Identity Management, with a successful track record of working in complex global organisations at fast pace. The role will report to the program and be part of a dynamic and highly skilled team. You will also provide end-to-end engineering and technical design for the IDAM 2.0 programme, translating business, security and regulatory requirements into secure, scalable and supportable identity solutions. Acts as the technical authority across multiple workstreams, ensuring architectural consistency, integration and alignment with the enterprise target state.

In this role, you will:
Produce High Level Designs (HLDs) and Low Level Designs (LLDs) for identity capabilities.
Define end-to-end Technical Solutions across business, application, data and infrastructure domains.
Translate business, security and regulatory requirements into technical solutions.
Develop reference architectures, patterns and design standards for the programme.
Define integration patterns between identity platforms, applications and infrastructure.
Design cloud-native solutions for GCP and Kubernetes environments.
Define authentication, authorisation and federation architectures.
Design Agent Identity, Human Identity and Workload Identity capabilities.
Define Zero Trust security architecture and trust boundaries.
Design API security, service-to-service authentication and workload authentication patterns.
Develop event-driven integration architectures using messaging and asynchronous processing.
Design Policy Decision Point (PDP) and Policy Enforcement Point (PEP) architectures using Policy-as-Code.
Define secrets management, certificate life cycle and PKI integration patterns.
Design resilience, disaster recovery and high availability architectures.
Ensure solutions meet non-functional requirements for security, scalability, resilience and performance.
Produce architecture decision records (ADRs) and design documentation.
Support governance through Architecture Review Boards and Design Authorities.
Perform solution assurance and technical design reviews across supplier deliveries.
Identify technical risks, assumptions, constraints and dependencies.
Collaborate with Enterprise Architecture to ensure alignment with strategic architecture.
Work with Product Owners to refine technical requirements and delivery priorities.
Support engineering teams throughout implementation, testing and production readiness.
Mentor engineers and promote engineering best practice.
Evaluate new technologies and vendor products against programme requirements.
Contribute to roadmap planning and future-state architecture.

To be successful in this role, you should meet the following requirements:
Key Skills & Experience
Essential Skills
Enterprise Architecture
Identity and Access Management (IAM)
Authentication and Authorisation
Zero Trust Architecture
Agent Identity and Workload Identity
Identity Federation (OIDC, OAuth2, SAML, SCIM)
Cloud Architecture (GCP)
Kubernetes and Service Mesh
API Architecture and Security
Event-driven Architecture
Policy-as-Code (OPA/Cedar)
PKI, Certificates and Secrets Management
DevSecOps and CI/CD
High Availability and Resilience Design
Security Architecture
Architecture Governance
Stakeholder Management
Technical Leadership

If you are interested in this position and would like to learn more, please send through your CV and we will get in touch with you as soon as possible. Please note, candidates are often Shortlisted within 48 hours.