Senior Business Analyst (Identity & Access Management)
Location: London (Hybrid)
Salary: £57,500 - £66,000 + Benefits
Type: Permanent
About the Role
We're recruiting for a Senior Business Analyst with Identity & Access Management (IAM) experience to join a growing digital transformation team delivering impactful projects across public and private sector organisations.
Working within multidisciplinary teams of business analysts, engineers, architects, product specialists and delivery professionals, you'll play a key role in helping clients modernise and improve their identity and access management capabilities.
This is an analysis-led role requiring strong stakeholder engagement, workshop facilitation and the ability to turn complex business and security requirements into clear, implementation-ready outcomes.
Active SC or CTC Clearance is required.
Key Responsibilities
- Facilitate discovery sessions with business, application, security and service owners.
- Gather and document IAM requirements, risks, dependencies and access processes.
- Run stakeholder workshops and build strong working relationships.
- Map current and future-state access journeys, including requests, approvals, provisioning, reviews, changes and deprovisioning.
- Analyse identity processes and recommend improvements aligned to best practice.
- Define onboarding and integration requirements for Microsoft Entra and other identity platforms.
- Produce clear documentation and implementation-ready outputs for engineering and delivery teams.
- Support testing and validation activities.
- Collaborate with multidisciplinary teams delivering identity and access management programmes.
Essential Skills & Experience
- Active SC or CTC Clearance.
- Proven Business Analysis or IAM Analysis experience.
- Experience within Identity & Access Management, security, access management or application onboarding environments.
- Strong understanding of:
- Identity lifecycle management
- Access requests and approvals
- Provisioning and deprovisioning
- Access reviews and recertification
- Excellent workshop facilitation and stakeholder management skills.
- Strong written and verbal communication skills.
- Experience working within Agile or iterative delivery environments.
- Experience managing governance, testing, approvals and handovers.
- Ability to present findings and recommendations using evidence and data.
- Willingness to travel to client sites when required.
Desirable Skills & Experience
- Microsoft Entra ID / Enterprise Applications.
- Entitlement Management and Access Packages.
- Group-based access assignments.
- Role-Based Access Control (RBAC).
- Segregation of Duties (SoD).
- Privileged Access Management (PAM).
- Access governance and audit controls.
- SaaS, cloud-hosted, legacy or bespoke application onboarding.
- Service design and process improvement techniques.
- Azure DevOps.
- IT Service Management (ITSM) tooling.
- Experience working in regulated or complex environments.
Benefits
- £57,500 - £66,000 salary
- Contributory pension scheme
- 25 days annual leave plus bank holidays
- Private healthcare options
- Private dental cover
- Life assurance and critical illness cover
- Flexible benefits package
- Wellbeing support
- Cycle to Work scheme
- Electric vehicle scheme
- Volunteer days
- Season ticket loans
- Ongoing professional development and training
Why Apply?
This is an excellent opportunity for a Senior Business Analyst with IAM expertise to work on complex Identity & Access Management programmes, helping organisations improve security, access governance and identity lifecycle processes while collaborating with experienced digital and technology teams.
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