Identity & Access Architect – Cloud-Native & Zero Trust Lead

Webologix Ltd/ INC; Sheffield; On-site; GBP 90,000 - 130,000; Full time

Job summary

HSBC is seeking an experienced Design SME to lead the architecture and delivery of enterprise Identity & Access Management (IAM) capabilities. You will provide technical leadership across the IDAM 2.0 workstream, define target architecture and ensure secure, scalable identity services for a global organisation.

You will work with IAM architects, business stakeholders and technology partners to translate requirements into robust designs, reference architectures and patterns.

Qualifications

• Experience delivering IAM architecture for enterprise-scale programmes.
• Strong understanding of cloud-native IAM in multi-cloud environments.
• Ability to translate security/regulatory requirements into technical designs.

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.
• Define integration patterns between identity platforms, applications and infrastructure.
• Design cloud-native solutions for GCP and Kubernetes environments.
• Define authentication, authorisation and federation architectures.
• Design Agent Identity, Human Identity and Workload Identity capabilities.
• 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 policies and decision points 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, scalability, resilience and performance.
• Produce ADRs and design documentation.
• Support governance through Architecture Review Boards and Design Authorities.
• Perform solution assurance and technical design reviews across supplier deliveries.
• Identify technical risks, assumptions, constraints and dependencies.
• Collaborate with Enterprise Architecture to ensure alignment with strategic architecture.
• Work with Product Owners to refine technical requirements and priorities.
• Support engineering teams throughout implementation, testing and production readiness.
• Mentor engineers and promote engineering best practice.
• Evaluate new technologies and vendor products against programme requirements.
• Contribute to roadmap planning and future-state architecture.

Skills

Enterprise Architecture

Identity and Access Management

Authentication and Authorisation

Zero Trust Architecture

Agent Identity

Workload Identity

Identity Federation

Cloud Architecture (GCP)

Kubernetes

API Architecture

Event-driven Architecture

Policy-as-Code

PKI/Secrets Management

DevSecOps/CI-CD

High Availability & Resilience

Security Architecture

Architecture Governance

Stakeholder Management

Technical Leadership

Job description

HSBC is seeking an experienced Design SME to lead the architecture and delivery of enterprise Identity & Access Management (IAM) capabilities. You will provide technical leadership across the IDAM 2.0 workstream, define target architecture and ensure secure, scalable identity services for a global organisation.

You will work with IAM architects, business stakeholders and technology partners to translate requirements into robust designs, reference architectures and patterns.