Identity and Access Management Architect

Response Informatics; Greater London; On-site; GBP 90,000 - 130,000; Full time

Job summary

Response Informatics Limited is seeking a senior IAM Architect to lead and design enterprise identity and access management on critical, live platforms. The role requires strong governance, API and microservices experience, and the ability to drive architecture decisions across teams.

Applicants should demonstrate excellent stakeholder communication and deep knowledge of identity lifecycles, data flows, and secure-by-design principles.

Qualifications

• Strong enterprise IAM experience in secure or regulated environments.
• Proven track record as a lead/senior architect on complex live platforms.
• Experience with identity lifecycle, governance, and integration patterns.
• Ability to simplify complex technical landscapes for pragmatic decisions.

Skills

Enterprise IAM

Lead/Senior Architect

Security governance

Identity lifecycle

APIs & microservices

Live-service support

Stakeholder management

SC clearance

Job description

Essential Experience

• Strong enterprise identity and access management experience.
• Proven experience as a lead or senior architect on complex live platforms.
• Experience working in secure government, public sector or similarly regulated environments.
• Strong understanding of identity lifecycle, access management, workflow, audit, governance and integration patterns.
• Demonstrable ability to work at detailed technical level across identity schemas, data flows, APIs, microservices, platform configuration and live-service support issues.
• Experience working across application development, data, infrastructure, service operations and supplier teams.
• Ability to simplify complex technical landscapes and make pragmatic architecture decisions.
• Strong stakeholder management and communication skills.
• Active SC clearance.

Desirable Experience

• Experience with enterprise IAM platforms such as OpenText / NetIQ, SailPoint, Microsoft Entra, ForgeRock, CyberArk, Okta or similar.
• Microsoft Entra / Azure AD / M365 identity integration experience.
• AWS-hosted application or platform experience.
• API gateway, LDAP, directory services, data feeds and enterprise integration experience.
• Experience with microservices, ETL patterns, workflow engines or complex integration platforms.
• Experience of service transition, BAU readiness and operational handover.
• Experience modernising or simplifying legacy-to-cloud services.
• Familiarity with secure-by-design principles, auditability and regulated-service operation.

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