Identity & Access Lead: Entra ID Consolidation & Migration

Sword Group; Glasgow; On-site; GBP 80,000 - 120,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Competitive salary

Flexible working

Career development

Private health

Pension scheme

Job summary

Sword Group is leading a hands‑on identity engineering role to drive a programme of identity change across the estate. The objective is to consolidate two Entra ID environments into one tenant and prepare for a global cloud migration, with security, automation and scalability at the forefront.

Reporting to the Platform, Cloud & Identity Manager, you will work with the in‑house identity team and a managed service provider to deliver end‑to‑end changes, implement secure access controls and produce

Qualifications

• Hands-on identity and access management experience, ideally in Entra ID environments.
• Experience consolidating identities or tenant migrations post‑merger.
• Strong Entra ID skills: Conditional Access, MFA, PIM, app registrations, B2B, Entra Connect/Cloud Sync, hybrid AD.
• Experience automating joiner/mover/leaver with HR and ITSM systems and RBAC.
• Knowledge of SAML/OIDC/OAuth/SCIM; PowerShell scripting; Microsoft Graph.
• Clear documentation skills and experience working with MSPs.

Responsibilities

• Plan and execute identity changes across the estate end to end; coordinate with in-house team, MSP and project teams.
• Implement IAM assessment recommendations and deliver tactical improvements.
• Migrate users, groups, apps/SSO, B2B, devices to the Entra ID tenant; validate outcomes.
• Prepare cut‑over and rollback plans; safely decommission legacy environment.
• Configure Entra ID: CA, MFA/passwordless, app integrations, Entra Connect/Cloud Sync, hybrid AD.
• Automate joiner/mover/leaver with HR and ServiceNow; implement access reviews and RBAC.
• Implement privileged access controls (PIM, admin tiering) and cloud prerequisites.
• Produce identity documentation, standards and runbooks; provide audit evidence.
• Transfer knowledge to in‑house team and MSP to sustain capability.

Skills

Identity IAM

Entra ID

RBAC

PIM

SAML/OIDC

PowerShell

Graph API

ServiceNow

Tools

ServiceNow

Job description

Sword Group is leading a hands‑on identity engineering role to drive a programme of identity change across the estate. The objective is to consolidate two Entra ID environments into one tenant and prepare for a global cloud migration, with security, automation and scalability at the forefront.

Reporting to the Platform, Cloud & Identity Manager, you will work with the in‑house identity team and a managed service provider to deliver end‑to‑end changes, implement secure access controls and produce