IDAM Specialist

Role Overview: The IDAM Specialist designs, implements, and operates identity and access management platforms and controls to ensure secure, reliable, and efficient access to systems, applications, and data. The role provides hands‑on technical expertise across identity lifecycle management, authentication, authorisation, and privileged access, supporting security requirements while enabling a positive user experience. Working closely with the Lead IDAM role, Cyber Security, Infrastructure, and Application teams, the IDAM Specialist delivers identity solutions aligned with organisational standards and policies. Your objectives and responsibilities will focus on… •Design, operate, and continually improve automated identity lifecycle processes, integrating identity platforms with HR and other authoritative sources to support joiners, movers, and leavers, and to prevent orphaned, dormant, or incorrectly provisioned accounts. •Implement and maintain role‑based access control (RBAC) and entitlement models, including application integrations, permission mappings, and least‑privilege and segregation‑of‑duties controls, ensuring accurate access catalogues and documentation. •Implement, configure, and support authentication and access technologies including Single Sign‑On (SSO), federation, Multi‑Factor Authentication (MFA), and password-less and conditional access solutions, resolving authentication and authorisation issues across supported platforms. •Support the operation of privileged access management (PAM) tooling, including configuration of privileged roles, approvals, access policies, account onboarding and offboarding, and auditing, monitoring, and logging of privileged activity to meet security and compliance requirements. •Provide operational support for IDAM services by resolving incidents and service requests, developing automation and scripting to improve reliability and efficiency, contributing to platform upgrades and new integrations, and participating in security incident response as an identity and access management subject matter expert.