IAM Design SME (Zero Trust & Cloud Architecture)

Job title: IAM Design SME (Zero Trust & Cloud Architecture)

Rate: £540 per day inside ir35

Location: Sheffield - 3 days per week
Contract: 6 months rolling

We're looking for an experienced IAM Design SME to join a major transformation programme at a leading UK bank, delivering next-generation Identity and Access Management (IAM) capabilities.

This is a high-impact opportunity to take technical ownership of identity architecture, define secure cloud-native solutions and influence how identity services are designed, integrated and delivered across a complex global enterprise. You'll act as a technical authority across the programme, translating complex security, business and regulatory requirements into robust, scalable and supportable designs.

You'll be responsible for:

• Producing end-to-end High-Level and Low-Level Designs (HLDs/LLDs).
• Defining IAM architecture across Human, Agent and Workload Identity.
• Designing Zero Trust, authentication, authorisation and federation solutions.
• Developing cloud-native architectures across GCP, Kubernetes and service mesh environments.
• Defining secure API, service-to-service authentication and event-driven integration patterns.
• Designing Policy-as-Code, PKI, certificate lifecycle and secrets management solutions.
• Driving architecture governance, design...