Head of Identity & Access Management (IAM) - Financial Services
(Excellent Base Salary + Performance Bonus + Comprehensive Benefits)
We are partnering with a highly successful global organisation operating within a complex, environment to appoint a Head of Identity & Access Management.
This is a strategic leadership position for an experienced IAM professional who combines strong engineering credentials with the ability to lead teams, influence senior stakeholders and drive enterprise-wide identity transformation.
Rather than being a hands-on engineering role, this is a player-manager opportunity where your technical background will enable you to challenge architecture, guide engineering decisions and lead the delivery of a modern Identity and Privileged Access Management strategy.
Working across a highly complex technology estate, you will be responsible for shaping the future of authentication, identity governance, privileged access and access lifecycle management while leading a high-performing engineering function.
The Role
As Head of IAM, you will own the strategic direction and operational delivery of the organisation's Identity & Access Management capability.
You'll work closely with Engineering, Architecture, Infrastructure, Security, Platform and Technology leadership to ensure identity services are secure, scalable and engineered to support a modern cloud-first environment.
This is a highly visible leadership role with regular interaction across senior technology leadership, providing strategic guidance whilst ensuring engineering teams continue to deliver robust, resilient and secure identity platforms.
Key Responsibilities
- Lead and develop the Identity & Access Management engineering function.
- Define and execute the enterprise IAM and Privileged Access Management strategy.
- Drive the evolution of authentication services across modern and legacy platforms.
- Own the Joiner, Mover and Leaver (JML) lifecycle and identity provisioning strategy.
- Deliver improvements across Identity Governance and Administration (IGA), access certification and role-based access controls.
- Lead the engineering roadmap across authentication, authorisation and privileged access technologies.
- Partner with Security Architecture to design scalable identity solutions.
- Drive automation across identity lifecycle management and privileged access workflows.
- Ensure IAM platforms remain highly available, resilient and secure.
- Build strong relationships with senior stakeholders across Technology, Security and Engineering.
- Provide technical leadership while empowering engineering managers and technical specialists.
- Develop engineering standards, governance and best practices across the IAM estate.
- Lead strategic transformation initiatives across cloud identity, zero trust and modern authentication.
You’ll be working within a modern, cloud-first engineering environment leveraging technologies such as Kubernetes, containerised platforms, modern authentication protocols (OAuth2, OIDC, SAML), Microsoft Entra ID, Active Directory, IAM, PAM, DevSecOps, CI/CD and API-driven identity services.
Experience with platforms such as CyberArk, SailPoint, Saviynt, ForgeRock or similar enterprise IAM technologies would be highly advantageous.
Most importantly, you’ll possess the technical depth to challenge engineering decisions while providing strategic leadership across a critical security capability.
The role offers significant executive exposure, genuine ownership of the IAM strategy and the opportunity to shape the future of identity security across a highly advanced technology estate.
An excellent salary, bonus and comprehensive benefits package are available for the successful candidate.
Head / Director of Identity & Privileged Access Management : London / Insurance employer: Entasis Partners
Join a leading consulting practice in London, where you will be at the forefront of large-scale cyber transformation programmes as a Microsoft Security Design Architect. Our collaborative work culture fosters innovation and professional growth, offering clear career progression alongside a competitive salary and comprehensive benefits package. Embrace the opportunity to make a meaningful impact on enterprise security while working with cutting-edge Microsoft E5 technologies in a hybrid environment.
