Director - IAM Lifecycle Design and Architecture

Job description

GSK remains committed to achieving bold commercial ambitions for the future. By 2031, we aim to deliver £40 billion in annual sales, leveraging our existing strong performance momentum to significantly increase our positive impact on the health of billions of patients globally. Our Ahead Together strategy is centered on early intervention to prevent and alter the course of disease, thereby protecting people and supporting healthcare systems. Our diverse portfolio consists of vaccines, specialty medicines, and general medicines. Through continuous innovation and a dedicated focus on scientific and technical excellence, we strive to develop and launch new, groundbreaking treatments that address critical health challenges. Job Purpose: The Director, IAM Lifecycle Design and Architecture will lead the design and modernisation of enterprise identity lifecycle capabilities across global hybrid environments. The role owns the target-state lifecycle architecture, reusable solution patterns, lifecycle automation, access governance, and controls for human and non-human identities. This role will partner closely with CSO leadership team, technology executives, platform engineering, security operations, HR technology, risk, audit, and application owners to deliver scalable, secure, and compliant identity services across human, contingent workforce, machine, service, and AI agent identities. Key responsibilities: This role will provide you the opportunity to lead key activities to progress your career. These responsibilities include some of the following: Define and govern the enterprise identity lifecycle target-state architecture, roadmap, design standards, and reusable patterns across cloud, hybrid, SaaS, on-premises, custom application, and agentic ecosystems. Accountable for end-to-end identity lifecycle design for employees, contingent workers, privileged users, service accounts, machine identities, non-human identities, AI agents, and digital workers, from identity creation and access fulfilment through change, review, suspension, and retirement. Own AI engineering delivery for IAM across agentic framework build, AI solution engineering, platform infrastructure and the data fabric pipeline Drive automated Joiner-Mover-Leaver processes using authoritative HR sources, identity governance tools, directory services, workflow platforms, and application integration patterns. Own architecture standards for access provisioning, deprovisioning, RBAC, ABAC, entitlement management, access certifications, segregation of duties, and audit evidence generation. Provide technical leadership for IAM platforms, HR systems, and enterprise IAM products. Partner with CSO teams and risk stakeholders to translate threat models, audit findings, regulatory expectations, and control gaps into funded initiatives and engineering backlogs. Establish governance for privileged access, secrets lifecycle, credential rotation, least privilege, service account ownership, and machine identity risk reduction. Build and mentor high-performing architecture and engineering teams, promoting secure-by-design practices, agile delivery, DevSecOps ways of working, and operational excellence. Basic Qualifications: 20+ years of progressive IT, security, identity, or enterprise architecture experience, including leadership responsibility for IAM lifecycle design, architecture, engineering enablement, and governance. Deep experience designing and operating enterprise IAM, Identity lifecycle management and IGA capabilities across large-scale regulated environments. Hands-on architecture exposure to IAM platforms, secrets management, HR source integration, and custom IAM solutions. Strong architecture and implementation experience across identity standards and modern technology stacks, including SAML, OIDC, OAuth 2.0, SCIM, LDAP, Kerberos, federation, SSO, REST APIs, GraphQL, Next.js, hybrid identity patterns, agentic implementations, Agent-to-Agent (A2A) protocol, and Microsoft Agent 365 (A365), with the ability to translate these technologies into secure, reusable identity lifecycle integration patterns. Demonstrable design experience with LLM orchestration, agentic systems, RAG patterns or API security for AI services. Experience creating access governance models, lifecycle automation, access certification workflows, privileged access controls, SoD controls, and audit-ready compliance evidence. Proven ability to influence executive stakeholders, advise CSO-level leadership, manage large global teams, and convert risk priorities into pragmatic engineering execution. Bachelor’s degree in computer science engineering, Information Security, or a related discipline. Preferred Qualifications: Experience designing IAM solutions with SailPoint, Saviynt or a comparable platform. Architecture framework experience such as TOGAF or SABSA. Experience with cloud identity architecture across Azure, AWS or GCP. Familiarity with governance frameworks for agentic AI. Relevant certification such as CISSP, CISSP-ISSAP, SailPoint or Saviynt certification, TOGAF. Experience in pharmaceutical, life sciences or another highly regulated industry. #AGTech Skills Account Lifecycle Management, Agentic AI, Authentication Systems, Automation Technology, Certificate Management, Cloud Based Services, Cloud IAM, Computer Programming, Configuration Management (CM), Database Management, Directory Services, Executive Influence, Identity Access Management (IAM), Identity Lifecycle Management, Information Technology (IT) Risk Management, Infrastructure Security, Privileged Access Management (PAM), Process Architecture, Product Lifecycle, Security Controls, System Monitors, Troubleshooting Why GSK? Uniting science, technology and talent to get ahead of disease together. GSK is a global biopharma company with a purpose to unite science, technology and talent to get ahead of disease together. We aim to positively impact the health of 2.5 billion people by the end of the decade, as a successful, growing company where people can thrive. We get ahead of disease by preventing and treating it with innovation in specialty medicines and vaccines. We focus on four therapeutic areas: respiratory, immunology and inflammation; oncology; HIV; and infectious diseases – to impact health at scale. People and patients around the world count on the medicines and vaccines we make, so we’re committed to creating an environment where our people can thrive and focus on what matters most. Our culture of being ambitious for patients, accountable for impact and doing the right thing is the foundation for how, together, we deliver for patients, shareholders and our people. Inclusion at GSK: As an employer committed to Inclusion, we encourage you to reach out if you need any adjustments during the recruitment process. Please contact our Recruitment Team at IN.recruitment-adjustments@gsk.com to discuss your needs. 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