Information Security

Zero Trust Solution Architect

Barclay Simpson Corporate Governance Recruitment

London · Greater London · United Kingdom

Overview

In this role you will drive Zero Trust strategy and enterprise IAM architecture for a global insurance firm. You will shape secure, scalable enterprise solutions across security, cloud, and data teams to enable a global data ecosystem. You will develop roadmaps, governance models, and blueprints that align with business transformation initiatives, while influencing senior stakeholders. This is a high-impact opportunity to define secure-by-design architectures and advance modern authentication across large, complex environments.

Responsibilities
  • Define and deliver an enterprise-wide Zero Trust architecture strategy
  • Develop security roadmaps aligned to business and technology objectives
  • Lead architecture design across IAM, access governance, privileged access, and identity federation
  • Design secure frameworks supporting a global data lake and enterprise data platforms
  • Partner with data, cloud, and infrastructure teams to ensure secure-by-design principles
  • Produce architecture blueprints, standards, and governance models
  • Support transformation initiatives involving cloud security, segmentation, and modern authentication
  • Influence senior stakeholders across technology and business functions
  • Evaluate emerging technologies and provide strategic recommendations
Key requirements
  • Proven experience as a Solutions Architect, Security Architect, or Enterprise Architect
  • Strong expertise in Zero Trust principles and implementation
  • Deep understanding of IAM architecture, identity governance, SSO, MFA, PAM, and federation
  • Experience securing large-scale data environments and global data platforms
  • Knowledge of enterprise cloud environments (Azure, AWS, or GCP)
  • Strong Knowledge of Data Lakes
  • Strong background in defining technology roadmaps and strategy
  • Experience working within complex global organisations
  • Excellent stakeholder management and communication skills
  • stakeholder management
  • communication
  • strategic thinking
  • Zero Trust
  • IAM architecture
  • identity governance

Reference: WJ-747_31237028 · Posted 05 Nov 2026

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