Chief Identity & Trust Architect

Iceberg; England; On-site; GBP 150,000 - 220,000; Full time

Job summary

Iceberg is seeking a senior leader to define and drive the enterprise Identity Trust strategy across a global financial services organisation. The role combines strategic ownership with operational accountability for critical identity services, uniting authentication, authorisation, governance and threat detection across Technology, Architecture and the wider business.

The candidate will shape approaches to non-human identities, AI agents and machine identities, while ensuring resilience,

Qualifications

• Significant experience leading enterprise identity, digital trust or a closely related cyber capability within a large, complex organisation.
• Strong technical understanding of modern authentication, authorisation and identity governance.
• Experience across identity threat detection, identity intelligence, machine/non-human identity and risk-based policy.
• The ability to set strategy and translate it into practical delivery.
• Experience influencing senior stakeholders across Technology, Security and the wider business.
• Experience leading critical services through transformation, major incidents and competing investment priorities.
• An interest in emerging areas such as AI agents, autonomous systems and machine identities.

Responsibilities

• Define and lead the organisation's enterprise Identity Trust strategy.
• Own identity as a security control across the organisation, integrating identity architecture, authentication, authorisation, governance and threat detection.
• Collaborate across Technology, Architecture, Engineering, Cyber Defence and the business to standardise identity and trust.
• Oversee non-human and machine identities, AI agents and autonomous systems at scale.
• Ensure identity services remain resilient and scalable while the function evolves.

Skills

Enterprise identity

Identity governance

Stakeholder engagement

Strategy development

Leadership

Job description

Iceberg is seeking a senior leader to define and drive the enterprise Identity Trust strategy across a global financial services organisation. The role combines strategic ownership with operational accountability for critical identity services, uniting authentication, authorisation, governance and threat detection across Technology, Architecture and the wider business.

The candidate will shape approaches to non-human identities, AI agents and machine identities, while ensuring resilience,