Senior IAM & Cloud Security Architect

NineTech; United Kingdom; On-site; GBP 90,000 - 130,000; Full time

Job summary

NineTech is seeking a Security Architect to lead the senior architecture and delivery capability across IAM, IGA, and Cloud Security. You will translate a complex identity and cloud-security modernisation agenda into target-state architectures, governance artefacts and implementation roadmaps.

You will collaborate with IAM domain owners and cross-functional teams to drive risk-based, well-governed architectures for workforce, privileged, non-human and machine identities, ensuring integration

Qualifications

• Proven experience in security architecture within complex enterprises.
• Depth across IAM and cloud security domains.
• Experience designing IAM solutions with AD/Entra ID, federation, SSO and lifecycle management.
• Practical knowledge of PAM, access governance and identity lifecycle models.
• Familiarity with cloud security architectures and multi-cloud environments.
• Knowledge of NIST, ISO 27001, CIS, SOC 2 or similar frameworks.

Responsibilities

• Define and maintain the target-state IAM and Cloud Security architecture.
• Develop architecture for IGA and access certification, including risk-based models.
• Support design and rollout of IGA / Access Certification platforms with AD/Entra ID integration.
• Assess ID verification solutions for helpdesk, self-service and recovery journeys.
• Define Enterprise Password Management architecture and lifecycle governance.
• Develop non-human and machine identity architectures (service accounts, secrets, certificates).
• Create AI/agentic identity lifecycle management concepts and controls.
• Maintain IAM security patterns: Non-Human Identity, Agentic AI Identity, Federation and SSO, PAM, Identity Propagation, Mobile and Workload Identity.
• Develop cloud-security patterns: Landing Zones, Third-Party Compute, Cloud File Transfer, SaaS connectivity, Ingress/Egress.
• Ensure secure identity integration across Entra ID, AD, cloud platforms, SaaS apps, and third-party services.
• Design controls for AWS/Azure/GCP environments, including cross-account access and least privilege.

Skills

Senior Security Architect

IAM Architect

Cloud Security Architect

Enterprise Architecture

Tools

SailPoint

Saviynt

CyberArk

BeyondTrust

Microsoft Entra ID

Job description

NineTech is seeking a Security Architect to lead the senior architecture and delivery capability across IAM, IGA, and Cloud Security. You will translate a complex identity and cloud-security modernisation agenda into target-state architectures, governance artefacts and implementation roadmaps.

You will collaborate with IAM domain owners and cross-functional teams to drive risk-based, well-governed architectures for workforce, privileged, non-human and machine identities, ensuring integration