Identity & Access Management (IAM) Technology Analyst in Manchester

Are you passionate about cybersecurity, identity management, privileged access management, and protecting critical business systems? We're looking for an Identity & Access Management (IAM) Technology Analyst to join our growing security team and play a key role in supporting, enhancing, and maturing IAM and Privileged Access Management (PAM) capabilities across a complex enterprise environment. In this role, you'll help ensure the right people have the right access to the right resources at the right time, with a particular focus on ensuring privileged access is granted securely, used appropriately, and governed effectively.

Responsibilities

• Support the design, implementation, and enhancement of Identity and Access Management solutions, with a particular focus on Privileged Access Management controls across privileged accounts, service accounts, administrative access paths, enterprise platforms, and critical applications.
• Collaborate with security, infrastructure, application, and PAM/IAM teams to ensure services align with security standards, business requirements, and strategic objectives.
• Assist with onboarding applications, privileged accounts, service accounts, and platforms into the IAM and PAM ecosystem, ensuring secure and compliant access controls are established.
• Troubleshoot and resolve complex IAM and PAM-related issues across a variety of technologies, platforms, and environments, including privileged access failures, vaulting, password rotation, session management, and temporary access processes.
• Conduct access, privileged access, and risk assessments, helping identify security risks, control gaps, and practical remediation options.
• Develop and maintain technical documentation, standards, and procedures to support IAM and PAM operations, governance, audit readiness, and control monitoring.
• Contribute to the development of automation capabilities that improve the efficiency and effectiveness of access management and privileged access management processes.
• Analyse recurring IAM and PAM incidents, identify root causes, and help implement preventative measures to improve service stability, control effectiveness, and security posture.
• Drive continuous improvement initiatives by identifying opportunities to enhance processes, technologies, privileged access controls, and security outcomes.
• Support special projects and contribute to broader cybersecurity, IAM, PAM, and technology transformation initiatives.

What it takes

• Required Experience working in Information Security, Identity & Access Management, Privileged Access Management, Network Administration, or a related IT discipline.
• Understanding of identity lifecycle management, authentication, authorization, access controls, least privilege, privileged account lifecycle management, and secure administration practices.
• Experience supporting enterprise technology platforms and troubleshooting complex technical issues, ideally involving privileged access, administrative accounts, access controls, or security tooling.
• Strong analytical and problem-solving skills, with the ability to identify access and privileged access risks and recommend practical solutions.
• Excellent communication skills and the ability to collaborate across technical and non-technical teams, including security, infrastructure, application, audit, and business stakeholders.
• Undergraduate degree in Information Technology, Computer Science, Cybersecurity, or a related field, or an equivalent combination of education and experience.

Preferred

• Experience with IAM and PAM platforms such as Microsoft Entra ID (Azure AD), Privileged Identity Management, SailPoint, CyberArk, BeyondTrust, Delinea, Okta, Ping Identity, or similar technologies.
• Knowledge of Single Sign-On (SSO), Multi-Factor Authentication (MFA), Privileged Access Management (PAM), Identity Governance and Administration (IGA), vaulted credentials, password rotation, just-in-time access, session monitoring, and privileged access reviews.
• Familiarity with Active Directory, LDAP, role-based access controls, privileged groups, service accounts, and security best practices.
• Experience with automation, scripting, workflow technologies, reporting, or control monitoring capabilities that support IAM and PAM operations.

Special Factors

• This is a hybrid position and would require you to work in the office 3 days per week (Tuesday, Wednesday & Thursday).

Why Vanguard?

Vanguard is a different kind of investment company. It was founded in the United States in 1975 on a simple but revolutionary idea: that an investment company should manage its funds solely in the interests of its clients. This is a philosophy that has helped millions of people around the world to achieve their goals with low-cost, uncomplicated investments. It's what we stand for: value to investors.

Inclusion Statement

Vanguard’s continued commitment to diversity and inclusion is firmly rooted in our culture. Every decision we make to best serve our clients, crew (internally employees are referred to as crew), and communities is guided by one simple statement: “Do the right thing.” We believe that a critical aspect of doing the right thing requires building diverse, inclusive, and highly effective teams of individuals who are as unique as the clients they serve.

How We Work

Vanguard has implemented a hybrid working model for the majority of our crew members, designed to capture the benefits of enhanced flexibility while enabling in-person learning, collaboration, and connection.