IAM – Managing Consultant

Turnkey Consulting

The Role

We are looking for a highly capable and experienced Managing Consultant who can lead the delivery of complex IAM programmes while contributing to the continued growth of the IAM practice.

The successful candidate will combine strong technical expertise with delivery leadership, ensuring high-quality implementation of IAM solutions across our client engagements.

In addition, the role acts as a senior delivery and architecture counterpart to practice leadership, taking ownership of delivery complexity and enabling senior leaders to focus on strategic, advisory, and growth activities.

This role will involve:

• Leading delivery of core IAM services for clients
• Acting as a primary escalation point for IAM delivery, resolving issues without requiring escalation to senior leadership
• Owning technical delivery and architecture across IAM engagements
• Supporting pre-sales and business development activities
• Mentoring and leading team members across engagements
• Contributing to the development of scalable delivery capability within the practice

Delivery of Core Services

The ideal candidate will act as a Subject Matter Expert (SME) in designing and delivering identity and access management solutions across the following areas:

• Enterprise Identity and Access Management solutions
• Identity Governance and Administration
• Access Management (SSO, MFA, Federation)
• Privileged Access Management
• Integration across enterprise platforms and applications

With strong practical knowledge of:

• End-to-end identity lifecycle processes (Joiner, Mover, Leaver)
• Role-based access control and entitlement management
• IAM implementation and delivery methodologies (Agile, Waterfall)
• Managed services and operational transition
• Information security principles and IAM alignment to frameworks such as NIST

Key Technologies

The candidate will have experience in two or more of the following platforms:

• SailPoint (ISC or IIQ) - essential
• Microsoft Entra ID
• Okta CIAM
• CyberArk
• Delinea

Additional exposure to other IAM or security technologies is beneficial but not essential. Integration of IAM solutions with SAP technologies is highly regarded.

Key Responsibilities

Delivery Leadership

• Lead end-to-end IAM delivery programmes, from design through to implementation and stabilisation
• Manage technical delivery across multiple IAM workstreams
• Ensure delivery quality, timelines, and risk management across engagements
• Own delivery outcomes with accountability for independent, high-quality execution without reliance on senior SME intervention

Architecture Ownership

• Own solution architecture and design decisions across IAM engagements
• Define and enforce technical standards and design quality
• Act as the design authority within agreed governance thresholds
• Lead integration of IAM solutions across enterprise systems, including directories, HR systems, and applications

Escalation, Governance and Boundaries

• Act as the primary escalation point for IAM delivery across engagements
• Resolve delivery and technical challenges without unnecessary escalation
• Establish and enforce clear delivery and escalation boundaries across client and team interactions
• Ensure issues are resolved at the appropriate level before escalation

Team Leadership and Capability Uplift

• Mentor and support junior consultants and team members
• Build architecture-capable consultants able to make independent design decisions
• Drive structured capability uplift to reduce dependency on central expertise
• Promote principle-led thinking, not tool-led execution

Practice and Pre-Sales Contribution

• Support pre-sales activities, including solution shaping, RFP responses, and proposal development
• Present IAM solutions and architecture approaches to prospective clients and stakeholders
• Partner with practice leadership to scale advisory and pre-sales capacity
• Contribute to thought leadership, innovation, and practice development
• Develop accelerators, tools, and reusable delivery assets

Managed Services and Operational Transition

• Support transition to managed services and ongoing operational delivery
• Ensure delivery models are scalable and sustainable beyond initial implementation

Success Measures

Success in this role will be defined by:

• Reduction in delivery escalations to senior leadership
• Increase in independent delivery across teams
• Consistent delivery of high-quality outcomes without senior SME intervention
• Improved capacity of practice leadership to focus on advisory, sales, and growth
• Demonstrated uplift in team architectural capability and autonomy

Key Attributes and Experience

• Minimum 10 years of experience in IAM delivery and implementation
• Proven track record delivering large-scale IAM programmes
• Strong experience in technical delivery leadership, including planning, execution, and governance
• Ability to lead teams and manage stakeholders across business and technology functions
• Strong understanding of IAM processes and enterprise security controls
• Experience working in professional services or consulting environments
• Excellent communication and client engagement skills

Desirable Experience

• Relevant certifications such as CISSP, CISM, ITIL
• Vendor certifications across IAM platforms (SailPoint, Microsoft, CyberArk, Okta, etc.)
• Experience supporting pre-sales and business development
• Experience defining IAM strategies and roadmaps
• Familiarity with enterprise delivery methodologies and frameworks

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