IAM Design Lead: Zero-Trust & Cloud Identity Architect

Webologix Ltd/ INC; Sheffield; On-site; GBP 70,000 - 110,000; Full time

Job summary

HSBC is seeking a Design SME to lead and operate enterprise IAM capabilities within the IDAM 2.0 programme. You will produce High/Low Level Designs, translate requirements into secure solutions, and set reference architectures across cloud and on-prem environments.

You will partner with IAM architects, stakeholders and technology peers, mentoring engineers and ensuring architectural consistency, integration and alignment with the enterprise target state.

Qualifications

• Extensive experience designing and delivering IAM solutions in large, complex organisations.
• Proven ability to translate security and regulatory requirements into technical designs.
• Hands-on experience with cloud-native architectures, GCP and Kubernetes.

Responsibilities

• Produce High Level Designs (HLDs) and Low Level Designs (LLDs) for identity capabilities.
• Define end-to-end Technical Solutions across business, application, data and infrastructure domains.
• Translate business, security and regulatory requirements into technical solutions.
• Develop reference architectures, patterns and design standards for the programme.
• Define integration patterns between identity platforms, applications and infrastructure.
• Design cloud-native solutions for GCP and Kubernetes environments.
• Define authentication, authorisation and federation architectures.
• Define Zero Trust security architecture and trust boundaries.
• Design API security, service-to-service authentication and workload authentication patterns.
• Develop event-driven integration architectures using messaging and asynchronous processing.
• Define PDP/PEP architectures using Policy-as-Code.
• Define secrets management, certificate lifecycle and PKI integration patterns.
• Design resilience, disaster recovery and high availability architectures.
• Ensure solutions meet non-functional requirements for security, performance and scalability.
• Support governance through Architecture Review Boards and Design Authorities.
• Perform solution assurance and design reviews across supplier deliveries.

Skills

IAM

Authentication & Authorization

Zero Trust

Agent Identity

Identity Federation

Kubernetes

API Security

Policy-as-Code

PKI & Secrets

Job description

HSBC is seeking a Design SME to lead and operate enterprise IAM capabilities within the IDAM 2.0 programme. You will produce High/Low Level Designs, translate requirements into secure solutions, and set reference architectures across cloud and on-prem environments.

You will partner with IAM architects, stakeholders and technology peers, mentoring engineers and ensuring architectural consistency, integration and alignment with the enterprise target state.