IAM Advisory Lead

Atos; United Kingdom; Remote; GBP 90,000 - 130,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Pension scheme

Private medical cover

Income protection

Life assurance

25 days paid leave + holidays

Flex benefits program

Job summary

Atos UK&I IAM Lead role focuses on designing, transforming and operationalising mature IAM across complex enterprise environments. The candidate blends strategic advisory with practical governance and architecture, with a capability to own engagements and drive growth in IAM within consulting and large enterprise settings.

The role requires strong end-to-end IAM knowledge, credible interaction with senior stakeholders, and experience with leading IAM platforms.

Qualifications

• Substantial experience in Identity & Access Management within consulting, SI, architecture or large enterprise BAU.
• Strong understanding of end-to-end IAM lifecycle across people, process, governance and technology.
• Experience with at least one of CyberArk, Evidian, Okta, SailPoint or Microsoft Entra.
• Experience designing, improving or governing IAM processes and controls in complex environments.
• Knowledge of Privileged Access Management and identity-centric Zero Trust principles.
• Ability to translate assessments and roadmaps into actionable plans.
• Credible engagement with senior stakeholders, architects and engineers.

Responsibilities

• Help clients design, transform and operationalise mature IAM capabilities.
• Balance strategic advisory with architecture and practical governance.
• Engage across identity lifecycle domains: lifecycle governance, privileged access, access management.
• Develop end-to-end IAM propositions and delivery assets for UK&I.

Tools

CyberArk

Evidian

Okta

SailPoint

Microsoft Entra

Job description

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Atos is the Atos Group brand dedicated to AI-powered, secure, end-to-end digital services. Atos designs, develops, and operates critical digital environments that drive performance, resilience and sovereignty, helping public and private organizations worldwide retain control over their data and infrastructures, while meeting regulatory requirements.

With more than 52,000 employees serving over 4,500 clients across 54 countries, Atos helps modernize core IT systems, accelerate cloud and data transformation, strengthen cybersecurity, and deliver secure digital workplace environments to support its clients, its employees and society. Atos also provides consulting and advisory services through its Atos Amplify brand.

A trusted partner in operating complex and mission-critical environments, Atos supports organizations across highly regulated and sovereign contexts.

Atos Group is a global leader in digital transformation with c. 54,000 employees and annual revenue of c. €7.2 billion, operating in 54 countries under two brands - Atos for services and Eviden for products and systems. European number one in cybersecurity and a leader in cloud, Atos Group is committed to a secure and decarbonized future and provides tailored AI-powered, end-to-end solutions for all industries. Atos Group is listed on Euronext Paris.

Who we are

We are a team of passionate experts with a clear ambition: applying digital technology to advance what matters for our clients and society. Together, we create reliable and responsive digital foundations for the world’s businesses, institutions and communities.

Job in a nutshell

As our UK&I IAM Lead, you will help clients design, transform and operationalise mature IAM capabilities across complex enterprise environments. You will combine strategic advisory and architecture with a practical understanding of how identity services are governed, implemented, transitioned and run day to day.

This role could suit an established IAM consultant ready to take greater ownership of engagements and capability growth, or a senior practitioner from a large enterprise IAM function who wants to bring deep industry experience into consulting. You do not need to be an expert in every product. We are looking for strong end-to-end IAM knowledge, sound judgement and meaningful experience with at least one leading enterprise platform.

The identity domains you will work across

Identity lifecycle and governance: Joiner, mover and leaver processes; identity data; access requests and approvals; provisioning and deprovisioning; roles and entitlements; segregation of duties; access certification and recertification.

Privileged access: Privileged account governance; credential vaulting and rotation; session management and monitoring; just-in-time access; zero standing privilege; endpoint privilege management and emergency access.

Access management: Single sign-on; multi-factor and passwordless authentication; federation; conditional and risk-based access; external identity; directory modernisation and break-glass controls.

Zero Trust architecture: Identity as a policy enforcement point, continuous verification, least privilege, device and contextual signals, segmentation, monitoring and measurable control assurance.

Non-human and emerging identity: Service accounts, workload identities, certificates, secrets, APIs, machine identities and governance of AI agents and autonomous services.

Requirements

• Substantial experience in Identity & Access Management within consulting, systems integration, architecture, transformation or a large enterprise BAU environment.
• A strong understanding of the full end-to-end IAM lifecycle and how identity capabilities are operationalised across people, process, governance and technology.
• Practical experience with at least one of CyberArk, Evidian, Okta, SailPoint or Microsoft Entra, plus the ability to work conceptually and technology-agnostically across other platforms.
• Experience designing, improving or governing IAM processes and controls in complex enterprise environments.
• Good knowledge of Privileged Access Management and identity-centric Zero Trust principles.
• Experience producing clear assessments, architectures, roadmaps, operating-model artefacts or service-transition outputs.
• The ability to engage credibly with senior business stakeholders, security leaders, architects, engineers and operational teams.
• Strong written and verbal communication, with the ability to turn technical complexity into practical recommendations.
• A collaborative, commercially aware and client-focused approach.
• The right to work in the UK and flexibility to travel occasionally to client or company locations.
• Experience moving from IAM strategy or project delivery into sustainable BAU operations.
• Knowledge of machine identity, workload identity, PKI, certificate lifecycle management, secrets management or service-account governance.
• Understanding of identity and authorisation models for AI agents, autonomous services and other non-human identities.
• Experience of identity threat detection and response, attack-path analysis or identity security posture management.
• Experience supporting regulated, public sector or critical national infrastructure clients.
• Relevant identity, security, cloud, architecture or service-management certifications.
• Experience supporting bids, proposals, pre-sales discovery or consulting-offering development.

What success looks like

• Clients receive clear, actionable IAM strategies and roadmaps that can move confidently into implementation and operation.
• Identity processes and controls are secure, auditable, usable and sustainable in BAU.
• Advisory, architecture, implementation and managed-service teams work together through a consistent end-to-end lifecycle.
• Atos develops reusable IAM methods, propositions and delivery assets that support growth across the UK&I.
• Emerging identity challenges, including machine and AI-agent identities, are addressed with proportionate governance and practical controls.

Rewards and benefits

• A visible role with the opportunity to shape and grow our UK&I IAM advisory capability.
• Varied work across strategy, architecture, transformation, operational readiness and service improvement.
• Opportunities for professional development, continuous learning and career progression.
• Remote and hybrid working possibilities, subject to business and client requirements.
• The opportunity to participate in volunteering, charity, inclusion and sustainability initiatives.

Benefits:

• Pension Scheme - contributions matched up to 10%
• Private medical cover
• Income Protection
• Life Assurance
• 25 days paid leave + National Holidays
• Flex benefits program

Please note eligibility for SC clearance is essential for this role. As a Disability Confident employer, we encourage applications from all applicants, especially, differently abled applicants. We aim to ensure that those who meet the minimum criteria for this position will be offered an interview. We are committed and willing to making reasonable adjustments to the application and assessment process to accommodate your needs.

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