IAM Solutions Architect Contract

Solution Architect - Identity & Access Management (IAM)

Hybrid Sheffield - 3 days per week onsite

£575 - 600 per day Inside IR35

Initial contract until end of the year with view to extend long-term

We're looking for an experienced Solution Architect to join a major financial services transformation programme focused on modernising enterprise Identity & Access Management (IAM) capabilities.

This is an opportunity to play a key technical leadership role in designing the next generation of identity services, helping shape secure, scalable and cloud-native solutions within a large, complex enterprise environment.

Working closely with architects, engineering teams, security specialists and business stakeholders, you'll define solution architecture, establish technical standards and guide delivery across a large-scale IAM transformation programme.

What You'll Be Doing

• Define end-to-end solution architecture across business, application, data and infrastructure domains.


• Produce High Level Designs (HLDs), Low Level Designs (LLDs) and Architecture Decision Records (ADRs).


• Translate business, security and regulatory requirements into secure technical solutions.


• Design modern IAM capabilities covering:


• Authentication and Authorisation


• Human, Agent and Workload Identity


• Identity Federation


• API Security


• Policy-as-Code


• Secrets Management and PKI


• Design cloud-native architectures using Google Cloud Platform (GCP) and Kubernetes.


• Define integration patterns between identity platforms, applications and infrastructure.


• Develop resilient, highly available and scalable architectures.


• Support Architecture Review Boards and technical governance.


• Review supplier designs and provide technical assurance across multiple workstreams.


• Work closely with Product Owners and engineering teams throughout delivery.


• Mentor engineers and promote architectural best practice.


• Evaluate new technologies and contribute to the long-term architecture roadmap.

Essential Skills & Experience

• Strong background in Enterprise Solution Architecture


• Extensive experience delivering Identity & Access Management (IAM) solutions


• Authentication, Authorisation and Identity Federation (OIDC, OAuth2, SAML, SCIM)


• Zero Trust Architecture


• Agent Identity and Workload Identity


• Cloud Architecture, particularly Google Cloud Platform (GCP)


• Kubernetes and Service Mesh


• API Architecture and API Security


• Event-Driven Architecture


• Policy-as-Code (OPA, Cedar or similar)


• PKI, Certificates and Secrets Management


• DevSecOps and CI/CD


• High Availability, Disaster Recovery and Resilience Design


• Security Architecture


• Architecture Governance and Design Reviews


• Strong stakeholder management and technical leadership experience

If you're an experienced Solution Architect with a strong IAM background and enjoy designing secure, enterprise-scale cloud solutions, we'd love to speak with you.

Cathcart Technology is acting as an Employment Business in relation to this vacancy.

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