IAM Engineer

Chetwood Bank; Wrexham; On-site; GBP 50,000 - 75,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

25 days holiday plus your birthday off

Pension contribution

Life Assurance

Private health insurance

Free breakfast

Job summary

Chetwood Bank is seeking an IAM Engineer to oversee identity and access management improvements. You will be a technical expert for Microsoft Entra, responsible for designing and optimizing identity services across various environments.

The candidate should have robust experience in access management and identity governance, as well as relevant certifications. The role offers benefits like 25 days holiday plus your birthday off, private health insurance, and a pension contribution.

Qualifications

• Strong expertise in Microsoft Entra, including ID and access management.
• Hands-on experience in identity governance and administration.
• Good understanding of modern identity technologies and principles.

Responsibilities

• Design and implement IAM services based on business and security requirements.
• Support secure access management capabilities such as SSO and MFA.
• Monitor and optimize identity platforms and respond to incidents.

Skills

Microsoft Entra ecosystem expertise

Access management experience

Identity governance administration

Zero Trust security principles knowledge

Scripting and automation (PowerShell, Microsoft Graph)

Education

Relevant IAM/PAM certifications (e.g., SC-300, SC-100, AZ-500, CISSP)

Job description

We’re a UK-based digital bank dedicated to getting the basics right and offering straightforward savings and mortgages.

As an IAM Engineer, you will lead the engineering and continuous improvement of Chetwood’s Identity and access management capability across access management, privileged access management and identity governance. As the technical subject matter expert for the Microsoft Entra ecosystem, you will design, implement, and optimise identity services across the bank’s cloud, SaaS, and on‑premises environments. Translating identity strategy into secure, scalable controls that strengthen Chetwood’s overall security posture.

Key Responsibilities

• Design, implement and continuously improve Chetwood’s identity and access management services in line with business, security and regulatory requirements.
• Engineer and support secure access management capabilities, including Microsoft Entra ID, SSO, federation, MFA, Conditional Access and directory services.
• Develop and maintain Identity governance administration capabilities, including automated lifecycle management, access reviews and role‑based access controls.
• Monitor, maintain and optimise identity platforms, responding to incidents and driving continuous service and security improvements.
• Act as the technical IAM subject matter expert, providing guidance, promoting best practice and supporting the wider security engineering function.

Skills, Knowledge & Expertise

• Strong expertise across the Microsoft Entra ecosystem, including Entra ID, conditional access, privileged identity management, identity protection and identity governance.
• Hands‑on experience delivering access management, privileged access management and identity governance and administration solutions.
• Good understanding of modern identity technologies, including SSO, federation and directory services.
• Knowledge of Zero Trust security principles and identity‑led security controls.
• Scripting and automation experience using PowerShell and Microsoft Graph is desirable.
• Relevant certifications such as Microsoft SC‑300, SC‑100, AZ‑500, CISSP or equivalent IAM/PAM certifications are desirable.

Benefits

• 25 days holiday PLUS your BIRTHDAY off
• Pension contribution with Royal London
• Life Assurance
• Private medical, dental and optical health insurance with Axa
• Free breakfast available

Data Protection

We anticipate that we will retain your data as part of the recruitment process for no longer than is necessary for the purpose for which it was collected unless we have sought your consent to keep your data for future suitable job vacancies.

The personal information we have collected from you will be shared with Cifas who will use it to prevent fraud, other unlawful or dishonest conduct, malpractice, and other seriously improper conduct. If any of these are detected you could be refused certain services or employment. Your personal information will also be used to verify your identity. Further details of how your information will be used by us and Cifas, and your data protection rights, can be found at https://www.cifas.org.uk/fpn.