Technical Lead NextGen

Role: Technical Lead NextGen

Sheffield, UK

6 Months contract

Rate: 65 GBP per hour Inside IR35

Experience 7 to 11

Responsibilities

• Own the technical solution architecture for the assigned IAM workstream
• Define maintain and govern HighLevel Designs HLDs and LowLevel Designs LLDs
• Lead technical decisionmaking architecture reviews and technology selection activities
• Ensure alignment with enterprise architecture security standards and regulatory requirements
• Drive adoption of Zero Trust and Identityfirst architecture principles
• Provide technical leadership guidance and mentoring to engineering teams
• Review solution designs application code and infrastructure changes
• Manage technical risks assumptions dependencies and integration challenges
• Coordinate technical activities across internal teams and thirdparty suppliers
• Support planning estimation solution delivery and implementation activities
• Define and validate nonfunctional requirements including availability resilience performance scalability observability and security
• Ensure solutions are productionready supportable and operationally compliant
• Participate in architecture governance forums design authorities and technical steering committees
• Promote engineering excellence DevSecOps practices and continuous improvement initiatives
• Collaborate with Architecture Engineering Security Operations and business stakeholders

To be successful in this role you should have:

• Strong technical leadership and solution architecture experience
• Experience delivering complex enterprise IAM solutions
• Knowledge of Enterprise Identity and Access Management IAM
• Experience with Authentication Authorization and Identity Lifecycle Management
• Understanding of Human Identity NonHuman Identity Agent Identity and Workload Identity
• Strong knowledge of Zero Trust Architecture principles
• Experience with PolicyasCode and security governance practices
• Knowledge of Secrets Management and Certificate Lifecycle Management
• Experience securing APIs and implementing API Security controls
• Understanding of EventDriven Architectures and Identity Integrations
• Knowledge of CloudNative Security and modern cloud platforms
• Experience with Observability Monitoring Logging and Auditing solutions
• Strong understanding of Secure Software Development Lifecycle SSDLC
• Experience with DevSecOps Automation and Production Readiness practices
• Strong Stakeholder Management Communication and Facilitation skills
• Experience working in regulated Financial Services environments
• Ability to lead crossfunctional teams across Architecture Engineering Security Operations and external suppliers