IDAM Technical Architect (SC)

Our client is an international Digital Transformation organization who require an IDAM Technical Architect for one of their key projects with a customer based in Wiltshire.

START: ASAP
DURATION: 6 months
RATE: £500-£600 PER DAY (OUTSIDE IR35)
LOCATION: HYBRID (1 DAY ON-SITE PER WEEK)
CLEARANCE: SC

Description

The ideal candidate will be someone with experience of delivering large scale Identity and access management capabilities preferably in secure public sector environments.

Experience and skills:

* Effective decision making and the ability to understand, solve and resolve technical challenges across varying levels of complexity and risk
* Takes responsible for leading the technical design of systems and services, justify and communicate design decisions
* Has experience of the identity and access management domain, including authentication protocols (OAuth, OpenID Connect and SAML) and account life cycle
* Comfortable with Java application stacks, REST API, Linux virtual server environments, cloud hosting (eg AWS or Azure), IP Networking, configuration of ports and Firewalls, DNS, certificates
* Provide technical leadership to the build teams and drive the value delivery in iterative dev/test cycles.
* Undertake structured analysis of technical issues and translating this analysis into technical designs that describe the required solution
* Identify opportunities to collaborate and reuse components, communicating with both technical and non-technical stakeholders
* Excellent communication and presentation skills and the ability to collaborate with senior stakeholders and 3rd parties providing technical direction and establishing agreements
* Able to provide technical leadership, guide and mentor the development team to build solutions according to the design
* Able to assimilate vendor product integration requirements and make design and technical decisions for optimal use of off-the-shelf and custom Java components, ensuring high performant systems, scalability and maintainability.
* Technical governance and the assurance of required digital identity services ensuring best practices are followed
* Good working knowledge of open source and Java technologies, including APIs and microservices
* Able to interact with and guide a skilled DevSecOps team
* Agile development methods - Scrum, Kanban, TDD, BDD, etc.

Due to the nature and urgency of this post, candidates holding or who have held high level security clearance in the past are most welcome to apply. Please note successful applicants will be required to be security cleared prior to appointment which can take up to a minimum 10 weeks. LA International is a HMG approved ICT Recruitment and Project Solutions Consultancy, operating globally from the largest single site in the UK as an IT Consultancy or as an Employment Business & Agency depending upon the precise nature of the work, for security cleared jobs or non-clearance vacancies, LA International welcome applications from all sections of the community and from people with diverse experience and backgrounds.

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