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A leading firm seeks an Identity & Access Management Senior Architect to enhance their digital trust team. In this pivotal role, you will design and improve IAM strategies, ensuring security across all digital platforms while leveraging Microsoft identity technologies and managing a dedicated team. This position promises a dynamic environment with significant responsibility in steering identity governance and access management initiatives.
Job Description
We have an exciting new opportunity for an Identity & Access Management Senior Architect to join the A&O Shearman London office.
About the team
The firm's ability to keep our clients' data secure is a bedrock for our reputation as a trustworthy professional services partner to many of the world's large and prestigious organisations. Information security is not an afterthought; it is core to all that we do, to protect not only our data but that of our clients, and has the unwavering support of the Board.
Led by our new CISO, the in-house Information Security team is a core part of our technology services structure with mature or evolving capability across all areas of digital security and cyber defence. We align our efforts to the NIST framework and other recognised certifications including ISO27001 and SOC2 and strive to keep pace with the continually evolving threat landscape, in support of A&O Shearman's strategy to lead where global complexity creates opportunity.
In addition, you will have the opportunity to share and gain intel from the firm's cybersecurity lawyers. The global team have experience advising clients on hundreds of incidents. Leveraging this experience, they feedback practical lessons learned into clients' cyber risk management and incident response programmes.
What you will do
The Identity and Access Senior Architect will be part of the Digital Trust team, and will be responsible for maintaining the identity and access management (IAM) security of the firm's assets. This role is critical in translating the organisation's IAM vision into a workable, mature and optimized function and service. This role requires extensive experience across all IAM core disciples including identity management, identity governance and administration, privileged access, and conditional access. This role will support the transformation of IAM into a modern, automated, predictable and customer-oriented function. The ideal candidate will excel at Microsoft Entra ID technologies, CyberArk, machine identity management, and translation of identified requirements into practical identity architecture and design.
This will include:
IAM Strategy and Architecture
IAM Risk and Change Management
Leadership & Team Development
What you will have
You will stand out if you bring
Should you require additional support at any stage of the recruitment process due to a disability or a health condition, please do not hesitate to contact a member of our recruitment team who will work with you to provide any adjustments as required.
We are an equal opportunities recruiter and do not discriminate on the basis of race, colour, sex, religion, sexual orientation, national origin, disability, or any other protected characteristic.
We recognise that our people are our most valuable asset, which is reflected in the wide range of benefits that are available to our employees. Some of these benefits include: our occupational pension scheme, group income protection cover, private medical insurance, mental health resources and free apps, health and wellbeing services encompassing an onsite gym, wellbeing centre and GP service, emergency back-up care support, parental and special leave, holiday entitlement increasing with length of service, holiday trading, season ticket loans and online discounts and lifestyle management services.
Our approach to hybrid working seeks to combine and maximise the benefits of effective remote working with the benefits of being in the office. Our current hybrid working arrangements require office based working for a minimum of 60% of your time (i.e. three days per week for a full time role) in accordance with our hybrid working policy.