Identity Management Consultant

Synechron; Sheffield; Hybrid; GBP 110,000 - 150,000; Full time

Job summary

Synechron is seeking an IAM Technical Lead to support Project Orbit – NextGen, a global Identity Security transformation. You will own the technical design for the IAM workstream, driving secure, scalable identity services across the organization.

The role requires leadership across architects, engineers, security and operations, with strong Zero Trust experience and hands-on delivery in regulated environments.

Qualifications

• Strong experience in enterprise Identity and Access Management and identity security.
• Experience leading IAM transformation and security engineering.
• Knowledge of Zero Trust architectures and identity-first security.
• Experience with policy-as-code, API security, cloud-native security, and event-driven identity integrations.
• Familiarity with Agile delivery, backlog management, and stakeholder engagement.

Responsibilities

• Own the technical solution and architecture for the IAM workstream.
• Define and maintain High-Level Designs (HLDs) and Low-Level Designs (LLDs).
• Lead technical decisions, technology selection, and solution reviews.
• Ensure alignment with Enterprise Architecture, security, regulatory, and technology standards.
• Drive adoption of Zero Trust and identity-first design principles.
• Provide technical leadership, coaching, and mentoring to engineering teams.
• Review designs, code, infra changes, and implementation plans.
• Manage risks, assumptions, dependencies, and delivery constraints.
• Coordinate integration with internal teams and third-party suppliers.
• Support planning, estimation, backlog, and delivery governance.
• Define non-functional requirements covering availability, resilience, performance, scalability, observability, and security.
• Ensure production-readiness and operability.
• Support architecture governance and technical steering groups.
• Champion engineering best practices, DevSecOps, automation, and improvement.
• Facilitate discussions, workshops, walkthroughs, and stakeholder reviews.
• Contribute to documentation and operating procedures.

Skills

Identity and Access Management

IAM transformation leadership

Authentication & Authorization

Zero Trust

Policy as code

Cloud-native security

DevSecOps

Stakeholder management

Agile delivery

Job description

Synechron is a leading digital consulting firm with 17,000+ collaborative employees in 55+ global offices across 17+ countries.

From our solid financial services industry foundation, we have become a prominent global digital consulting firm for large financial services and technology firms.

With a key focus on trust, and in partnership with our clients, we’re leading modernization and digital optimization journeys with expertise that spans Consulting, Data, Design, Cloud and Engineering across various industries.

We can provide you with customized end-to-end solutions that drive business value.

We are looking for an experienced and motivated IAM Technical Lead – Identity Security & Zero Trust to support Project Orbit – NextGen, a global Identity and Access Management transformation initiative.

The program will modernize IAM capabilities across the organization, covering authentication, authorization, elevated access, human identities, non-human identities, workload identities, and emerging agent identities. This is a long-term transformation program involving significant change across technology, architecture, security, operations, and global business teams.

Department: Identity and Access Management (IAM)

Job Description:

The Technical Lead will provide technical leadership across the IAM transformation workstream, defining target architecture and ensuring the delivery of secure, scalable, resilient, and supportable identity services.

The role will work closely with IAM architects, business stakeholders, engineering teams, security, operations, enterprise architecture, and third-party technology partners.

Responsibilities:

• Own the technical solution and architecture for the assigned IAM workstream.
• Define and maintain High-Level Designs (HLDs) and Low-Level Designs (LLDs).
• Lead technical decision-making, technology selection, and solution reviews.
• Ensure alignment with Enterprise Architecture, security, regulatory, and technology standards.
• Drive adoption of Zero Trust and identity-first design principles.
• Provide technical leadership, coaching, and mentoring to engineering teams.
• Review solution designs, code, infrastructure changes, and technical implementation plans.
• Manage technical risks, assumptions, dependencies, and delivery constraints.
• Coordinate integration activities across internal technology teams and third-party suppliers.
• Support technical planning, estimation, backlog management, and delivery assurance.
• Define and assure non-functional requirements covering availability, resilience, performance, scalability, observability, and security.
• Ensure solutions are production-ready, operationally supportable, and aligned with service-management expectations.
• Support architecture governance, design authorities, and technical steering groups.
• Champion engineering best practices, DevSecOps, automation, and continuous improvement.
• Facilitate technical discussions, requirements workshops, solution walkthroughs, and stakeholder reviews.
• Contribute to technical documentation, knowledge sharing, operating procedures, and delivery governance.

Required Skills & Experience:

• Strong experience in enterprise Identity and Access Management and identity security.
• Experience providing technical leadership for IAM transformation, security engineering, or enterprise identity platform delivery.
• Strong understanding of authentication, authorization, identity lifecycle management, and access governance.
• Experience with human and non-human identities, workload identity, agent identity, secrets management, or certificate lifecycle management.
• Knowledge of Zero Trust Architecture and identity-first security principles.
• Experience with policy-as-code, API security, cloud-native security, and event-driven identity integrations.
• Understanding of observability, monitoring, audit logging, secure software development, DevSecOps, and automation.
• Experience defining technical designs, reviewing solutions, managing dependencies, and coordinating delivery across multiple teams.
• Strong understanding of availability, resilience, performance, scalability, security, and production-readiness requirements.
• Experience working in a regulated financial-services environment.
• Familiarity with Agile delivery, product ownership, backlog management, requirements engineering, and business analysis.
• Strong stakeholder management, communication, facilitation, report-writing, and influencing skills.
• Ability to work effectively across multiple countries, cultures, and time zones.

Preferred Experience:

• Experience with IAM or security platforms such as Microsoft Entra ID/Azure AD, SailPoint, CyberArk, Okta, Ping Identity, ForgeRock, Saviynt, or BeyondTrust.
• Experience working with privileged access management, identity governance, authentication modernization, or elevated-access solutions.
• Experience supporting large-scale banking, financial-services, or other regulated-enterprise transformation programs.
• Experience coordinating internal engineering teams, architecture, security, operations, and third-party technology suppliers.
• Relevant certifications in IAM, cybersecurity, cloud security, enterprise architecture, Agile delivery, or technology risk.

What you will bring:

• A strong technical and security mindset.
• The ability to translate complex IAM requirements into practical, scalable solutions.
• Confidence in making technical decisions and influencing senior stakeholders.
• A collaborative approach to working across architecture, engineering, security, operations, and suppliers.
• A commitment to secure, resilient, supportable, and continuously improving identity services.

Awards:

2022: Voted in Top 25 Best Companies to Work for by the Business Intelligence Group

2021: Winner of the Gold Globee Award for Employer Excellence in Career Growth, Development & Training

2021: Synechron recognized with a Silver Level Award for COVID-19 Support Strategy

2020: Winner of the Team of the Year Award at the US FinTech Awards

2020: Synechron FinLabs won a Gold Stevie Award at the Asia-Pacific Stevie Awards

We are proud to be an equal opportunity employer. Our Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion initiative, Same Difference, is committed to fostering an inclusive culture that promotes equality, diversity, and respect.

We encourage applicants from diverse backgrounds, races, ethnicities, religions, ages, marital statuses, genders, sexual orientations, and abilities to apply.

We offer flexible workplace arrangements, mentoring, internal mobility, and learning and development programs to support our global workforce. Empowerment and collaboration are at the core of how we operate