Security Analyst/Architect - IAM

Posted 11 August 2026
Salary £550 - £600
LocationSheffield
Job type Contract
Discipline Technology

Job description

​In this role, you will:

  • Produce High Level Designs (HLDs) and Low Level Designs (LLDs) for identity capabilities.

  • Define end-to-end solution architecture 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 lifecycle 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 Solution 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 this position is of interest to you, apply now!