Identity Security Authority - Leadership Role
Posted 1 day ago by RiverSafe
Negotiable
Undetermined
Remote
London Area, United Kingdom
Summary: The Identity Security Authority is a senior leadership role responsible for overseeing Identity and Access Management (IAM), Identity Governance and Administration (IGA), and related security frameworks. This position focuses on setting strategic direction and governance rather than operational tasks, providing technical leadership across various teams and partners. The role requires a comprehensive understanding of identity security principles and the ability to influence without direct authority. Candidates must be based in the UK and are expected to travel to the London office as needed.
Key Responsibilities:
- Define and maintain the identity security strategy, control framework, and target-state roadmap.
- Assess current IAM, IGA, PAM, CIAM, and non-human identity controls, identifying risks, gaps, and duplication.
- Set requirements for end-to-end identity lifecycle management, including joiner, mover, leaver, and deprovisioning.
- Govern access reviews, role management, segregation of duties, and entitlement governance.
- Champion least privilege, just-in-time access, strong authentication, and privileged access governance.
Key Skills:
- Significant proven experience in senior identity security, IAM architecture, identity governance, or PAM.
- Comprehensive understanding of IAM, IGA, PAM, CIAM, and non-human identity security.
- Strong grasp of Zero Trust principles, conditional access, MFA, and segregation of duties.
- Experience applying a risk-based approach across complex enterprise environments and cloud services.
- Strong strategic leadership and influencing skills, able to set direction without direct line authority.
Salary (Rate): undetermined
City: London
Country: United Kingdom
Working Arrangements: remote
IR35 Status: undetermined
Seniority Level: undetermined
Industry: Other
Senior identity security leader to act as the enterprise authority for Identity and Access Management (IAM), Identity Governance and Administration (IGA), Privileged Access Management (PAM), Customer Identity and Access Management (CIAM), and non-human identity controls. This is an authority-level role, setting direction, standards and assurance rather than purely operational ownership, and providing technical and governance leadership across teams, delivery partners and systems integrators.
Skills: Significant proven experience in senior identity security, IAM architecture, identity governance or PAM Comprehensive understanding of IAM, IGA, PAM, CIAM and non-human identity security Strong grasp of Zero Trust principles, conditional access, MFA and segregation of duties Experience applying a risk-based approach across complex enterprise environments and cloud services Strong strategic leadership and influencing skills, able to set direction without direct line authority
Role: Define and maintain the identity security strategy, control framework and target-state roadmap Assess current IAM, IGA, PAM, CIAM and non-human identity controls, identifying risks, gaps and duplication Set requirements for end-to-end identity lifecycle management, including joiner, mover, leaver and deprovisioning Govern access reviews, role management, segregation of duties and entitlement governance Champion least privilege, just-in-time access, strong authentication and privileged access governance ** This role is predominantly remote. However, candidates must be willing to travel to the London office when required. Applicants must be based in the UK.