Senior Identity & Access Architect — Zero Trust IAM + Equity

Lilasciences; Cambridge; On-site; GBP 122,000 - 149,000; Full time

Job summary

Lila Sciences is looking for a Staff IT Systems Engineer, Identity to own the architecture and roadmap for identity and access management across the company. You will join the IT & Security team, mentor engineers, and drive security-focused identity engineering at scale.

The role requires deep experience in IT systems engineering or identity engineering with strong Okta expertise and cloud IAM knowledge. You will work on automating identity workflows, enabling secure access for employees,

Qualifications

• Deep IT systems engineering or identity engineering experience with ownership of IAM systems.
• Strong Okta experience: SSO, SAML, OIDC, SCIM, policies, workflow automation.
• Experience designing and scaling IAM/Zero Trust programs in complex environments.
• Solid understanding of cloud IAM across AWS, GCP, Entra ID or similar.
• Ability to build/operate automation with Python/Go, APIs, event-driven workflows, IaC.

Responsibilities

• Own architecture and roadmap for identity platform across major providers.
• Drive Zero Trust roadmap including MFA, continuous access evaluation, device trust.
• Build machine and AI-agent identity programs for service accounts and workloads.
• Design identity governance: access reviews, joiner/mover/leaver workflows.
• Set standards for SaaS identity integrations (G Workspace, Slack, Microsoft 365).
• Develop production-grade automation using Python/Go, Terraform, and AI tools.
• Partner with Security on threat modeling, incident response, and audits.
• Mentor engineers and act as escalation point for complex identity issues.
• Document architecture decisions, processes, and runbooks.

Skills

Okta

Zero Trust

Cloud IAM

Python/Go

Automation

Machine identity

Mentoring

Architecture

Tools

Terraform

Python

Job description

Lila Sciences is looking for a Staff IT Systems Engineer, Identity to own the architecture and roadmap for identity and access management across the company. You will join the IT & Security team, mentor engineers, and drive security-focused identity engineering at scale.

The role requires deep experience in IT systems engineering or identity engineering with strong Okta expertise and cloud IAM knowledge. You will work on automating identity workflows, enabling secure access for employees,