Identity & Entra ID Specialist - IAM Migration Lead

Sword Group; United Kingdom; Hybrid; GBP 70,000 - 110,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Career development

Flexible working

Benefits package

Job summary

Sword Group is seeking an experienced Identity and Access Management specialist in the UK to drive hands-on delivery for a major identity consolidation and cloud migration. You will own end-to-end identity changes, retire legacy environments, and strengthen Entra ID readiness for scale.

The role requires strong Entra ID skills, experience with tenant migrations, RBAC implementation, and collaboration with HR and ITSM systems.

Qualifications

• Must have hands-on identity and access management experience, ideally with Microsoft Entra ID environments.
• Experience delivering a tenant-to-tenant migration or identity consolidation.
• Strong Entra ID skills: Conditional Access, MFA, PIM, app registrations/enterprise apps, B2B, Entra Connect/Cloud Sync, and hybrid AD.
• Experience automating joiner/mover/leaver with HR and ITSM systems (prefer ServiceNow) and implementing RBAC.
• Knowledge of SAML, OIDC, OAuth and SCIM; scripting with PowerShell / Microsoft Graph.
• Ability to produce technical docs, runbooks and support external MSPs.

Responsibilities

• Plan and execute identity changes end to end across the estate with internal teams, MSP and project teams.
• Implement recommendations from IAM assessments and deliver targeted improvements.
• Migrate users, groups, applications/SSO, B2B guest accounts, devices from legacy to Entra ID tenant.
• Prepare cut-over and rollback plans; validate outcomes and retire legacy environments.
• Configure and harden Entra ID ahead of cloud migration: CA, MFA, app integrations, Entra Connect/Cloud Sync and hybrid AD.
• Automate joiner/mover/leaver processes with HR systems and ServiceNow; implement RBAC.

Skills

Identity & access management

Entra ID

Tenant-to-tenant migration

RBAC

Tools

PowerShell scripting

Job description

Sword Group is seeking an experienced Identity and Access Management specialist in the UK to drive hands-on delivery for a major identity consolidation and cloud migration. You will own end-to-end identity changes, retire legacy environments, and strengthen Entra ID readiness for scale.

The role requires strong Entra ID skills, experience with tenant migrations, RBAC implementation, and collaboration with HR and ITSM systems.