Identity Architect

Salary: £80,000–£85,000

Location: Corsham (Hybrid – 2 days onsite per week)

Security Clearance: Active SC Clearance is mandatory

Start: Immediate

We're looking for an experienced Senior/Lead Identity Architect with strong Enterprise IAM expertise across platforms such as SailPoint, Microsoft Entra (Azure AD), Okta, ForgeRock, NetIQ/OpenText or CyberArk. You'll provide technical leadership across identity lifecycle, integrations, APIs, microservices, directories, workflows and live service support within a secure government environment.

Key Responsibilities

Architecture Leadership

Own the end-to-end architecture across development, data and service support workstreams.

Provide technical direction across identity workflows, lifecycle processes, integrations, data flows, platform behaviour and operational supportability.

Act as the senior architecture point of contact for delivery teams, service teams, suppliers and customer stakeholders.

Maintain architectural coherence across live-service change, backlog delivery, technical debt reduction and roadmap activity.

Ensure design decisions are pragmatic, supportable and aligned to business value.

Identity Platform Architecture

Lead architecture across enterprise identity and access management capabilities.

Provide oversight of identity lifecycle processes including onboarding, profile changes, role and access changes, recertification, leaver handling, audit and reporting.

Understand complex identity integrations across directories, authoritative sources, workflow systems, cloud-hosted services and downstream platforms.

Support simplification of identity journeys, data feeds, interfaces and platform components.

Identify opportunities to reduce avoidable customisation and use existing platform capability where appropriate.

Technical Depth and Design Ownership

Platform Improvement and Roadmap

Service Supportability