IAM Advisory Lead

Overview

In this role you will lead IAM strategy and transformation engagements for diverse clients, shaping end-to-end identity capabilities. You will blend advisory, architecture and hands-on governance to operationalise identity services across complex environments. You’ll collaborate with senior stakeholders to drive secure, auditable and scalable IAM programs. This is a chance to grow a UK&I IAM capability and address emerging identity challenges with practical governance.

Pay / Benefits

• Pension Scheme - contributions matched up to 10%
• Private medical cover
• Income protection
• Life assurance
• 25 days paid leave + national holidays
• Flex benefits program

Responsibilities

• Lead IAM strategy, maturity assessments, operating model design and transformation programs for public and private sector clients
• Assess current identity capabilities and pain points, turning findings into prioritised roadmaps
• Design end-to-end identity lifecycle processes (joiner/mover/leaver, provisioning, access reviews, deprovisioning)
• Advise on Identity Governance, Access Management, authentication, federation, SSO, MFA and passwordless authentication
• Lead or support Privileged Access Management assessments, vaulting, rotation, session controls and least-privilege governance
• Apply Zero Trust principles across users, admins, apps, workloads and third parties; develop practical architectures
• Develop current-state/target-state/reference architectures, high-level designs and business cases
• Support implementation governance, onboarding, migration, testing, and service transition
• Create artefacts such as governance models, RACIs, runbooks, KPIs and continuous-improvement plans
• Act as trusted adviser to stakeholders, communicating risks and decisions clearly
• Support bids, client workshops, statements of work and repeatable IAM offerings
• Coach colleagues and grow the UK&I identity community across advisory, architecture and delivery
• Work across identity domains: lifecycle governance, privileged access, access management, Zero Trust and non-human identities

Key requirements

• Substantial experience in Identity & Access Management within consulting, SI, architecture or large enterprise BAU
• Strong understanding of end-to-end IAM lifecycle across people, processes, governance and technology
• Practical experience with at least one platform (CyberArk, Evidian, Okta, SailPoint or Microsoft Entra)
• Experience designing or governing IAM processes and controls in complex enterprises
• Good knowledge of Privileged Access Management and identity-centric Zero Trust
• Experience producing assessments, architectures, roadmaps or service-transition outputs
• Ability to engage credibly with senior stakeholders and technical teams
• Strong written and verbal communication to translate complex concepts into practical recommendations
• Collaborative, commercially aware and client-focused mindset
• Right to work in the UK; occasional travel to client or company locations

• Collaborative
• Client-focused
• Strong communication
• Identity & Access Management lifecycle
• Privileged Access Management
• Zero Trust

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