IAM Consultant

Role Title: IAM Consultant – (Entra ID SSO/App migration)

Location: Surrey (Hybrid – 2 days per week in office)

Day Rate: Outside IR35 – Up to £550/Day

Overview

* Coordinate and drive the readiness of bp applications for authentication using bp group

* employee accounts (Microsoft Entra B2B). The role works closely with application owners,

* stakeholders, identity teams and the SSO BAU team to define onboarding plans, manage

* communications and change activities, track readiness, and support the successful onboarding of

* applications within agreed timelines.

* The role also supports the migration of on-premises applications to Microsoft Entra ID, including

* application assessment, migration planning, progress tracking, and stakeholder status reporting.

Required Experience

* Proven experience in Azure AD / Microsoft Entra ID SSO onboarding, application integration, and Microsoft Entra B2B authentication, including SAML, OAuth, and OpenID

Connect implementations.

* Strong background in planning and executing SSO migration projects, ensuring minimal business disruption and adherence to security standards.

* Experience managing the full project lifecycle, including discovery, design, onboarding, migration, testing, deployment, and post-implementation support.

* Demonstrated ability to develop and execute migration strategies, project plans, risk assessments, and rollout communications.

* Excellent stakeholder management skills, with the ability to engage and influence business owners, application teams, security teams, and senior leadership.

* Strong communication and coordination skills, including conducting workshops, managing project updates, documenting requirements, and driving alignment across multiple teams.

* Experience managing dependencies, risks, issues, and escalations while ensuring successful delivery of identity and access management initiatives.

* Ability to work in complex enterprise environments and support large-scale application onboarding and migration programmes.

Key Responsibilities:

* Coordinate and drive the readiness of bp applications for authentication using Microsoft Entra B2B.

* Engage with application owners, business stakeholders, identity teams and the SSO BAU team to assess application readiness, understand requirements, and support onboarding activities.

* Define, maintain and track application onboarding plans, milestones and delivery timelines.

* Assess on-premises applications for migration to Microsoft Entra ID and support onboarding and migration planning activities.

* Coordinate onboarding and migration activities to ensure applications are delivered within agreed timelines.

* Track and report on application onboarding and migration progress, including status, milestones, risks, issues and dependencies.

* Identify, manage and escalate risks, issues and blockers that may impact delivery timelines or onboarding readiness.

* Manage cross-functional dependencies and coordinate activities across application, business, identity and support teams.

* Support communications and change management activities to ensure stakeholder awareness and engagement throughout the onboarding and migration process.

* Facilitate readiness reviews, workshops and stakeholder meetings to drive alignment and delivery progress.

* Provide regular status updates, progress reports and delivery communications to stakeholders.

* Work closely with the SSO BAU team to support the successful enablement and onboarding of applications.

* Ensure onboarding and migration activities align with agreed security requirements, standards and delivery objectives
Only candidates based in UK and eligible to work in UK are allowed