Senior Technical Architect — Identity and Access — £600 per day — Inside IR35
A UK central government programme is hiring a technical architect to design how external organisations, and the people who work for them, get access to departmental services that hold citizen data.
The problem you are solving Which types of organisation should be able to reach these services.
How you prove an organisation is who it says it is.
How you prove somebody works for it.
What each of them actually needs to see, and how that access is authorised and kept correct over time.
What you will do Work with multi-disciplinary teams to define organisation types and their access needs
Design organisation and user verification, and the authorisation model behind it
Produce the architecture, patterns and models, and take them through technical governance
Justify and communicate design decisions to technical and non-technical stakeholders
Assure other services and system quality against the wider government technical strategy
What you need Identity and Access Management, with OAuth and OIDC
Architecture design and modelling techniques, patterns, tools and standards
Event-based architecture including publish-subscribe and data streaming
Public cloud, cloud hosting, container and networking design patterns — especially AWS
Agile and DevOps delivery
Presenting to technical governance forums
Assuring other services and system quality
The package £600 per day, inside IR35
Three days a week on site at a northern hub
SC clearance preferred, or willingness to go through SC.
Existing clearance is not required