Identity & Access Lead — Security Governance

National Highways; Cambridgeshire and Peterborough; Hybrid; GBP 90,000 - 110,000; Full time

Job summary

National Highways, a leading UK transport network operator, seeks a Lead Identity Manager to drive Identity and Access Management across its digital operations. You will oversee governance, privilege access, and vetting services while ensuring aligned policies and controls across business environments.

You will champion identity lifecycle management, manage teams, and report on identity threats and controls to stakeholders, with a hybrid work model and UK-wide travel as required.

Qualifications

• Experience leading security or technology functions.
• Experience developing policies, strategies and processes.
• Experience building or leading teams in a technology environment.
• Experience in first and second-line support of operational services (e.g., ServiceNow).

Responsibilities

• Provide develop and maintain sufficient management of Identity Systems and Standard Operating Procedures.
• Lead resources to prevent, detect, respond to and mitigate security threats to prevent loss of confidentiality, integrity or availability of business systems and assets.
• Ensure strategic alignment of the team's objectives to business strategies, governance and policies, by providing operational leadership and lifecycle management, strengthening security posture and reducing security risk, while maintaining compliance.
• Lead the implementation and delivery of operational Identity Services to ensure they are delivered effectively, meet quality expectations, and provide value to users and stakeholders.
• Maintain and develop Standard Operating Procedures, Identity processes and knowledge-based articles ensuring alignment with policy, change and business processes.
• Provide regular reporting of Identity threats, risks and controls to internal and external stakeholders.
• Lead the delivery and transition of systems into Identity Assurance Governance and Privileged Access Management monitoring to ensure access to National Highways assets and systems are controlled, monitored and access is authorised.
• Lead National Highways Identity and Access Service to maintain compliance with relevant security standards, legislation and monitor requirements, including those recommended or sponsored by UK Government
• Lead and influence the strategic direction of Identity Management functions to develop improvements that secures protection of corporate information and assets that contribute to a reduction of risk, improved business outcomes and alignment to business objectives

Skills

Identity management

Access governance

Privileged access

Security leadership

Team leadership

Policy development

ServiceNow

Tools

ServiceNow

Job description

National Highways, a leading UK transport network operator, seeks a Lead Identity Manager to drive Identity and Access Management across its digital operations. You will oversee governance, privilege access, and vetting services while ensuring aligned policies and controls across business environments.

You will champion identity lifecycle management, manage teams, and report on identity threats and controls to stakeholders, with a hybrid work model and UK-wide travel as required.