IAM Solutions Architect Contract

Solution Architect - Identity & Access Management (IAM)

Hybrid Sheffield - 3 days per week onsite

£(Apply online only) 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
Only candidates based in UK and eligible to work in UK are allowed