Senior Consultant - Identity & Access - (Remote, Fixed-Term Role)

Areti Group | B Corp™; West of England; Hybrid; GBP 70,000 - 110,000; Part time

Job summary

Areti Group is seeking a Senior Consultant - Identity & Access to lead identity and access activities across a large enterprise transformation programme. You will design and implement Entra ID solutions, lifecycle management, governance controls, and conditional access across a global migration, working with stakeholders and architects.

The role is hands-on, customer-facing and requires delivering secure identity services, workshops, and technical leadership across HR-driven lifecycle events and

Qualifications

• Experience delivering identity transformation in enterprise environments.
• Strong hands-on with Microsoft Entra ID and hybrid identity.
• Experience with large-scale identity governance and user migration programmes.
• Excellent stakeholder management and workshops leadership.

Responsibilities

• Lead Identity & Access workstreams across large-scale transformation programmes.
• Deliver identity discovery, assessment, and design activities.
• Design and implement Microsoft Entra ID solutions, including lifecycle management and governance controls.
• Translate HR-driven events into secure identity processes and workflows.
• Design and implement Conditional Access, Identity Protection, MFA, SSO, and PIM solutions.
• Produce high-quality technical documentation and governance artefacts.

Skills

Microsoft Entra ID (Azure AD)

IAM / Identity & Access

Identity governance

Conditional Access & MFA

SSO & PIM

Active Directory / Hybrid Identity

Workshops & stakeholder engagement

Enterprise IAM programs

Identity lifecycle management

Microsoft 365 environments

Saviynt

ServiceNow

SAP

SuccessFactors

Azure AD administration

Tools

Saviynt

ServiceNow

SAP

SuccessFactors

Microsoft Defender

Microsoft Purview

Azure AD

Job description

• Location: UK Remote (Bristol HQ – Travel Once Per Month)


• Global travel to client site for handover of work (Northern Europe, South Africa, USA).


• Role: Fixed-Term Employment (31st March Completion – Very Likely Extension)


• The Business: Microsoft Cloud & Infrastructure Consultancy


• Start Date: ASAP

Key Experience:

• Microsoft Entra ID (Azure AD), Identity & Access Management (IAM), and Identity Governance expertise.


• Strong understanding of Authentication, Conditional Access, MFA, SSO, and Privileged Identity Management.


• Active Directory and Hybrid Identity experience.


• Experience delivering identity transformation, access governance, or user migration programmes.

Areti are partnering with a growing Microsoft consultancy delivering cloud, infrastructure, security, and workplace transformation projects across the UK. We're seeking an experienced Senior Consultant - Identity & Access to join a high-profile Microsoft transformation programme supporting a global manufacturing organisation.

This is a hands-on, customer-facing consultancy role where you will lead Identity & Access activities across a large-scale enterprise transformation programme. The wider programme includes a global Microsoft 365 tenant-to-tenant migration, with the successful consultant responsible for ensuring identity, access, governance, provisioning, authentication, and user migration activities are delivered securely and effectively throughout the programme lifecycle.

The successful consultant will have a proven track record delivering enterprise Identity & Access solutions across complex transformation initiatives. You'll be comfortable operating as a trusted advisor, leading workshops, influencing technical decisions, coordinating stakeholders, and providing technical leadership throughout delivery.

Key Responsibilities

• Lead Identity & Access workstreams across large-scale transformation programmes.


• Deliver identity discovery, assessment, and design activities.


• Design and implement Microsoft Entra ID solutions, including identity lifecycle management and governance controls.


• Translate HR-driven lifecycle events, including joiners, movers, and leavers, into secure identity processes and workflows.


• Design and implement Conditional Access, Identity Protection, MFA, SSO, and Privileged Identity Management solutions.


• Review identity integrations, provisioning processes, access governance models, and authentication requirements.


• Support user migration planning, readiness activities, validation, service transition, and operational handover.


• Produce high-quality technical documentation, implementation guides, and governance artefacts.


• Provide technical leadership and guidance to customers throughout project delivery.


• Work collaboratively with Architects, Project Managers, Security Teams, HR Teams, and customer stakeholders.


• Proven experience delivering Identity & Access Management solutions within enterprise environments.


• Strong expertise with Microsoft Entra ID (Azure AD).


• Experience implementing Conditional Access, Identity Protection, MFA, SSO, and Privileged Identity Management (PIM).


• Strong understanding of identity governance, authentication, provisioning, directory services, and access management.


• Experience supporting identity transformation, user migration, application migration, or access governance programmes.


• Experience working within Microsoft 365 environments, including Exchange Online, SharePoint Online, OneDrive, Teams, Intune, and Entra ID.


• Experience with identity lifecycle management, user provisioning, and access control processes.


• Strong customer-facing consultancy and stakeholder management experience.


• Ability to lead workshops, gather requirements, and translate business needs into technical solutions.


• Experience managing technical delivery across multiple workstreams and regional stakeholders.


• Experience with identity governance and administration platforms such as Saviynt.


• Experience working with enterprise platforms such as ServiceNow, SAP, and SuccessFactors.


• Active Directory consolidation, directory synchronisation, or hybrid identity experience.


• Experience supporting global transformation programmes.


• Experience within a Microsoft Partner, Consultancy, or MSP environment.


• Knowledge of Microsoft Defender, Microsoft Purview, and broader Microsoft Security technologies.


• Relevant Microsoft certifications including SC-300, SC-100, AZ-104, or equivalent.

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