Senior Identity Consultant

Senior Identity Consultant
Join a consultancy team delivering complex identity transformation programmes across Active Directory, Microsoft Entra ID and hybrid environments. This customer-facing opportunity suits someone with strong consultancy, migration and stakeholder leadership skills.
This role is officially known as a Senior Consultant (Identity & Access)
If you've also worked in the following roles, we'd also like to hear from you: IAM Consultant, Identity & Access Management Consultant, Identity Consultant, Digital Identity Consultant, Senior IAM Consultant, IAM Delivery Consultant, Microsoft Identity Consultant, Active Directory Consultant, Identity Security Consultant, Entra ID Consultant
Benefits include 25 days' holiday plus bank holidays, income protection, a Health Cash Plan, death in service cover and training and development.
SALARY: Competitive + Benefits
LOCATION: Remote / Home Based - with UK and international customer-site travel and travel to Bristol HQ
JOB TYPE: Full-Time, Fixed-Term Contract until 31 March 2027
WORKING HOURS: Monday to Friday, 37.5 Hours per Week
JOB OVERVIEW
An excellent opportunity is available for a Senior Identity Consultant to shape complex identity transformation programmes and practical delivery plans.
The Senior Identity Consultant will lead discovery, design and planning, turning customer requirements, risks and dependencies into clear approaches.
Success as the Senior Identity Consultant will involve guiding Active Directory migration, Microsoft Entra ID and hybrid identity decisions with project, security, infrastructure, application and partner teams.
Remote working is supported, with UK and international customer-site travel and travel to Bristol HQ required.
DUTIES
Your duties as the Senior Identity Consultant include:
Discovery, Design and Planning: Lead customer workshops, assess current-state environments and shape clear target-state approaches
Active Directory Transformation: Plan forest and domain migrations, consolidations, separations, coexistence and cutover activity
Identity Architecture: Advise on trusts, DNS, OU structure, Group Policy, delegation, security baselines and migration readiness
Hybrid Identity Consultancy: Provide guidance across Microsoft Entra ID, Entra Connect, directory synchronisation, authentication methods, Conditional Access, Entra trust, Entra External ID, identity governance and related security controls
Migration Delivery: Support pilots, migration waves, validation, rollback and hypercare using appropriate migration tooling
Technical Documentation: Produce discovery findings, designs, migration approaches, workshop summaries, decision records, migration plans, runbooks, test plans, validation evidence and handover material
Stakeholder Communication: Adapt technical detail for technical and non-technical audiences and provide clear updates on progress, risks, issues and decisions
Cross-Functional Collaboration: Work with project managers, architects, security, infrastructure, application teams and external partners to support successful delivery
CANDIDATE REQUIREMENTS
ESSENTIAL
Strong customer-facing consultancy experience leading discovery, design and planning activity
Demonstrable experience delivering or advising on large-scale Active Directory migrations and restructures
Strong Active Directory knowledge
Strong Microsoft Entra ID and hybrid identity skills
Experience using migration tooling such as Quest On Demand Migration, Quest Migration Manager, ADMT or similar
Confident workshop leadership, requirements capture, decision-making and high-quality technical documentation
Clear communication with technical and non-technical stakeholders
Right to Work in the UK; visa sponsorship is not available for this role
Willingness to travel to customer sites in the UK and internationally and to Bristol HQ
DESIRABLE
Experience supporting merger, acquisition, divestment or tenant separation scenarios involving identity change
Understanding of Microsoft 365, endpoint management, Intune and device join considerations affected by identity transformation
Experience contributing to statements of work, estimates, pre-sales activity or technical proposals
Relevant Microsoft certifications in identity, security or Azure
BENEFITS
25 days' holiday plus bank holidays
Company pension
Income Protection
Health Cash Plan
Death in Service (4 x salary)
Training & Development
Employee discounts
Volunteer Day
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JOB REF: AWDO-C15265
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