Your new company
Hays Technology are recruiting an Identity and Access Management Lead/Manager on a permanent basis to join an ambitious and growing public sector organisation based in York. This role requires an experienced IAM Manager to build the newly established team's expertise and capability during a time of change and transformation.
Your new role
In this new role you will be leading a small specialist team consisting of identity developers and support staff, but will be working within the larger Cyber Security Team. You will need to gain an understanding of the organisations identity legacy and be the lead on how to consolidate and simplify IAM approach throughout projects and services.
This means reaching out across the organisation to understand where to integrate, retire legacy components and work with nuances of local identity stores. As the ongoing service owner, you will be working with a wide range of IT colleagues, such as developers and application owners, to educate, develop and train to ensure integrations are developed in line with standard patterns that you will create.
As the key point of contact with the service supplier, you will be keeping up to date on their product suite, managing their service commitments and looking at how IAM can be developed into the future. As the Team Manager, you will provide IAM subject matter expertise; leading and guiding the IAM Team to ensure the development, maintenance and administration of the identity service is inline with requirements and vendor and industry standard.
As an IAM SME within the Cyber Security Team you will support the Head of Cyber Security in the technical development and use of the IAM service, and as primary provider of operational support on the service provide guidance to other operational colleagues for service use and onboarding of applications.
What you'll need to succeed
- Knowledge of identity management and authentication technologies, plus architectures and tools to support authorisation and accountability in both isolated and distributed systems.
- Ability to deliver Identity and Access Management as a service for the organisation and promote the product across multiple disciplines and subject areas.
- Experience of managing, motivating and developing team members and managing vendors and third parties
- Experience of continuous development and integration, and improving or introducing new practices into teams.
- Excellent communication skills are essential for the position.
- Software Development practice and Agile knowledge would be advantageous but not essential.
What you'll get in return
This exciting position is paying up to £62,000 negotiable on experience and offers an excellent work life balance including: hybrid working, very generous annual leave, fantastic public sector employer contribution pension scheme, flexibility, training, and development opportunities.
What you need to do now
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