IAM Engineer: Identity & Access Specialist (Hybrid, UK)

Edison Smart; Basingstoke; Hybrid; GBP 63,000 - 77,000; Full time

Job summary

Edison Smart is hiring an Identity & Access Management Engineer for our hybrid team in Basingstoke. You will own AD/AAD identity and access delivery, coordinating with delivery partners to ensure secure, compliant IAM solutions.

The role requires strong experience with Active Directory, Azure, SAML, OAuth, and OpenID Connect, plus a track record of delivering enterprise identity projects in global contexts. Salary up to £70k with a 10% annual bonus, three days onsite weekly.

Qualifications

• 2+ years of experience across identity technologies, including Privileged Access Management, Active Directory, SAML, OAuth, OpenID Connect, Azure AD Connect, Conditional Access and Entra ID governance.
• Experience leading technology projects within complex, global environments.
• Experience designing and delivering enterprise technology solutions.
• Experience working with public cloud architecture, such as Azure or GCP.
• Track record of executing large-scale, transformative strategic plans.
• Exceptional facilitation and organisational skills.
• Ability to communicate complex ideas clearly across all levels of IT and to third parties.

Responsibilities

• Own AD/AAD identity and access delivery and work with delivery partners to ensure fit-for-purpose delivery within the IAM space.
• Ensure documentation, change requests and related processes are accurate and compliant with SOX.
• Coordinate and facilitate QA and audit escalation issues with delivery partners, the Chief IAM Architect and QA/GRC.
• Act as the SME across various forums, ensuring projects and programmes are technically sound and deliver the expected outcomes.
• Build strong partnerships across the technical community, Information Security and application owners to identify opportunities and mitigate risk.
• Lead deep dives into key initiatives to resolve major incidents, complex problems and realise opportunities.
• Help embed security, privacy, data protection and quality assurance across IT.
• Partner with operational teams and Chief Architects to understand current and future IAM requirements.
• Work with L1-L3 IAM and identity support teams, including credential management, system review and access control actions in Azure PIM.
• Track emerging technology directions across the identity space.
• Engage with the wider identity community, internally and externally, to share, educate and inspire.

Skills

Active Directory

Azure

OAuth

OpenID Connect

SAML

GCP

Privileged Access Management

IAM

Cloud

Identity & Access Management

Tools

Azure PIM

Azure AD Connect

Job description

Edison Smart is hiring an Identity & Access Management Engineer for our hybrid team in Basingstoke. You will own AD/AAD identity and access delivery, coordinating with delivery partners to ensure secure, compliant IAM solutions.

The role requires strong experience with Active Directory, Azure, SAML, OAuth, and OpenID Connect, plus a track record of delivering enterprise identity projects in global contexts. Salary up to £70k with a 10% annual bonus, three days onsite weekly.