IDAM Architect

About IT Services

IT Services at The University of Manchester plays a crucial role in supporting the institution's technological infrastructure and enabling the delivery of world-class education, research, and administrative services.  The mission of IT Services is to provide innovative, reliable, and secure technology solutions that empower the university community to excel in teaching, learning, research, and administration. The vision is to be a leading provider of digital services, driving technological advancements and digital transformation across the institution.

The Team

The division of Information Security and Identity and Access Management (IS and IAM) is accountable for the cyber security operations across all areas of the University and its international centres. The division is comprised of two departments: Cyber Security Operations and Identity and Access Management.

The Role

The Identity and Access Management (IAM) Architect Is responsible for designing and implementing a comprehensive and scalable Identity and Access Management (IAM) solution to safeguard the organisation’s information assets, manage user identities and control access to critical systems and applications.

The IAM Architect ensures the IAM solutions will be cost effective and meet current and future University business and strategy requirements. 

The role involves collaborating with cross-functional teams to assess business requirements, design IAM strategies and ensure the secure and efficient management of user identities and access privileges across the enterprise.

The Person
You’ll have a broad range of technical knowledge of identity systems and approaches through the full identity lifecycle. You will have experience of designing identity solutions to fit the needs of a complex array of stakeholders while balancing organisational risk. You will possess extensive experience about IAM concepts e.g. lifecycle and governance; role-based access control; user provisioning; self-service management; password management; single sign-on, etc.

You’ll also have:

• Experience assuring outputs from either strategic change projects or third parties against architectural designs and ensuring adherence to policies, standards and practices.
• Experience designing and developing hybrid identity solutions across on-premises and multi-cloud environments.
• Experience of managing a wide range of internal and external stakeholders within a large and complex organisation.
• A solid understanding of the impact of emerging IAM technologies and trends on organisations and users.
• Assessed the feasibility of IAM solutions from a technology, people, and process perspective
• Developed IAM architecture artefacts (e.g., architecture diagrams, models, technical documentation, implementation guidelines, etc.) that can be used to leverage IAM capabilities in projects and operations. 

What you can expect in return 

• As well as a competitive salary, and working for an internationally recognised University 
• A generous annual leave entitlement plus bank holidays 
• Closure between the Christmas and New Year periods – this is in addition to your annual leave entitlement 
• Access to a comprehensive employee assistance programme, supporting your physical, mental, and financial health and legal advice 
• Leading pensions schemes, travel season tickets loans, workplace nursery, staff networking groups discounts for all the family to enjoy and so much more. 
• Training, career opportunities and career progression. 
• To see all of our benefits, visit Benefits of working at The University of Manchester 

Find out more about our organisation and values:

• IT Services: About us and ITS Practice Charter

When completing the additional information section of your application, please ensure you make reference to the job description and person specification above, as this will form an integral part of the shortlisting process.

As an equal opportunities employer we welcome applicants from all sections of the community regardless of age, sex, gender (or gender identity), ethnicity, disability, sexual orientation and transgender status.  All appointments are made on merit.

Our University is positive about flexible working – you can find out more here

Hybrid working arrangements may be considered.         

Please note that we are unable to respond to enquiries, accept CVs or applications from Recruitment Agencies.

Any recruitment enquiries from recruitment agencies should be directed to People.Recruitment@manchester.ac.uk.

Any CV’s submitted by a recruitment agency will be considered a gift.

Enquiries about the vacancy, shortlisting and interviews:

Name: Scott Storey

Email: scott.storey@manchester.ac.uk 

General enquiries:

Email: People.recruitment@manchester.ac.uk

Technical support:

https://jobseekersupport.jobtrain.co.uk/support/home

This vacancy will close for applications at midnight on the closing date.

Please see the link below for the Further Particulars document which contains the person specification criteria.