Technical/Security Architect – Identity & Access Management (IAM)

? Leeds (on-site once every two weeks)

? £620 per day (Inside IR35)

? Contract until December 2026

? Target start date: 23rd March 2026

Overview

We are seeking an experienced Technical Architect specialising in Identity and Access Management (IAM) to support the design and delivery of secure identity solutions across a complex enterprise environment.

This role will work closely with senior stakeholders, delivery teams and vendors to shape IAM architecture, guide technical decision-making, and ensure interoperability and security across platforms and services.

You will play a key role in translating complex technical challenges into clear architectural approaches, while providing assurance and oversight across IAM components and integrations.

Key Responsibilities

• Clarify and contextualise technical options for senior decision-makers, enabling informed strategic and architectural decisions
• Disambiguate complex technical situations and help stakeholders focus on the underlying problems and appropriate solutions
• Develop technical patterns and reference architectures covering authentication, authorisation, federation, identity lifecycle, and attribute management
• Bring together technical designs from multiple teams and create and maintain architecture decision records and decision logs
• Work closely with delivery teams, vendors and programmes to ensure interoperability and alignment with enterprise standards
• Provide technical assurance, risk assessment and architectural oversight across IAM components and integrations
• Contribute to the definition and evolution of IAM policies, standards and best-practice guidance
• Support engineering teams in embedding IAM capabilities into automated CI/CD pipelines to improve reliability, security and delivery velocity

Required Experience

• Strong experience designing and delivering Identity and Access Management architectures
• Experience working with modern authentication protocols such as OIDC, OAuth2 and SAML
• Experience with identity platforms and directory/identity data models
• Strong experience with Microsoft Entra (Azure AD)
• Experience designing solutions within Azure cloud environments
• Experience working within complex enterprise or large-scale environments
• Ability to communicate complex architectural concepts clearly to both technical and non-technical stakeholders

Desirable Experience

• Experience with AWS environments
• Understanding of networking concepts within large-scale enterprise architectures
• Experience working with federated identity and cross-platform authentication models
• Experience operating within multi-vendor environments and large delivery programmes

Apply now or email dom@briodigital.io for more information.