Cyber Design SME

Company Description

Who is HelloKindred?

HelloKindred are specialists in staffing marketing, creative and technology roles, offering a range of talent solutions that can be delivered on-site, remotely or hybrid.

Our vision is to make work accessible and people’s lives better. We do this by disrupting traditional employment barriers – connecting ambitious talent to flexible opportunities with trusted brands.

Job Description

Anticipated Contract End Date/Length: December 20, 2026
Work Set Up: Hybrid (3 days per week in office, 2 days remote)

Our client in the Information Technology and Services industry is looking for an Cyber Design SME to provide technical leadership for an enterprise IAM transformation programme. This role will define target architecture and deliver end-to-end technical designs for secure, scalable, and supportable identity services across complex enterprise environments.

The successful candidate will translate business, security, and regulatory requirements into technical solutions, ensuring architectural consistency, integration, and alignment with enterprise strategy. Working closely with IAM architects, business stakeholders, product owners, and technology partners, this individual will guide multiple workstreams, support engineering teams, and drive the adoption of modern identity and access management capabilities.

Responsibilities

• Produce High-Level Designs (HLDs) and Low-Level Designs (LLDs) for identity capabilities.
• Define end-to-end technical solutions across business, application, data, and infrastructure domains.
• Translate business, security, and regulatory requirements into secure, scalable, and supportable technical solutions.
• Develop reference architectures, reusable patterns, and design standards for the programme.
• Define integration patterns between identity platforms, applications, and infrastructure.
• Design cloud-native solutions for Google Cloud Platform (GCP) and Kubernetes environments.
• Define authentication, authorisation, and identity federation architectures.
• Design Agent Identity, Human Identity, and Workload Identity capabilities.
• Define Zero Trust security architecture, trust boundaries, and security controls.
• Design API security, service-to-service authentication, and workload authentication patterns.
• Develop event-driven integration architectures using messaging and asynchronous processing.
• Design Policy Decision Point (PDP) and Policy Enforcement Point (PEP) architectures using Policy-as-Code.