Identity & Access Management Lead

We are seeking an Identity & Access Management Lead with deep expertise in Microsoft Entra and modern authentication technologies to lead the strategy, design, and execution of enterprise identity capabilities across our digital platforms and services. You will play a key role in delivering secure, scalable, and seamless identity solutions that support employees, partners, customers, and external users across our environments.

In this role, you will oversee the management and evolution of our Microsoft Entra identity platforms, enabling secure authentication, application integration, privileged access controls, and identity governance aligned to security and compliance requirements. Experience with Customer Identity and Access Management (CIAM), including Azure AD B2C / Entra External ID, is beneficial.

You will work closely with infrastructure, security, engineering, product, and business teams to ensure identity services remain resilient, compliant, and aligned with enterprise architecture and Zero Trust principles.

Please be advised that this position requires attendance at Asda House in Leeds for a minimum of three days per week. We’re really looking forward to having you around!

What You’ll Love

Identity Strategy & Governance

• Define and execute the enterprise Identity & Access Management (IAM) strategy leveraging Microsoft Entra technologies.
• Act as the subject matter expert for authentication, authorisation, federation, and identity governance services.
• Establish and enforce identity governance standards including lifecycle management, access reviews, privileged access controls, and role-based access models.
• Drive alignment with Zero Trust security principles and enterprise security architecture standards.

Identity Platform Management (Microsoft Entra)

• Configure and manage Microsoft Entra ID environments including Identity Protection, authentication methods, federation services, and enterprise applications.
• Manage and support authentication services including MFA, passwordless authentication, Single Sign-On (SSO), self-service password reset, and hybrid identity integrations.
• Administer enterprise application registrations, service principals, secrets, certificates, token lifecycles, and key rotation processes.
• Oversee certificate-based authentication, secure secret storage, and integrations with Azure Key Vault and related security tooling.
• Support integrations across cloud platforms, SaaS applications, APIs, internal systems, and third-party services.
• Exposure to CIAM platforms such as Azure AD B2C / Entra External ID would be advantageous.
• Support identity governance and administration processes, ideally leveraging SailPoint solutions for joiner/mover/leaver workflows, access certifications, and role management.

Security, Compliance & Risk Management

• Implement and support modern authentication and federation standards including OAuth 2.0, OpenID Connect (OIDC), SAML, and SCIM.
• Partner with security teams to strengthen identity protection, privileged access management, and threat detection capabilities.
• Ensure compliance with regulatory and security requirements including GDPR, PCI-DSS and internal governance standards.
• Monitor and respond to identity-related risks including authentication anomalies, certificate expirations, secret rotations, and privileged access concerns.
• Support audit readiness, compliance reporting, and access certification activities.

Collaboration & Leadership

• Partner with engineering, infrastructure, architecture, security, compliance, and business stakeholders to deliver identity-related initiatives and platform improvements.
• Act as the primary escalation point for identity platform incidents, operational support, and authentication issues.
• Lead and mentor a small team of identity engineers
• Contribute to roadmap planning, platform modernization, and continuous improvement of IAM capabilities.

What You’ll Need

• Strong hands-on experience with Microsoft Entra ID including Identity Protection, federation, and hybrid identity solutions.
• Experience managing certificates, secrets, application registrations, and secure authentication integrations.
• Strong understanding of OAuth 2.0, OpenID Connect, SAML, SCIM, JWTs, and modern identity architecture patterns.
• Familiarity with Azure Key Vault, Privileged Identity Management (PIM), and Zero Trust security models.
• Experience with identity governance and administration (IGA) platforms, preferably SailPoint ISC.
• Experience integrating identity services across cloud-native applications, APIs, infrastructure platforms, and SaaS technologies.
• Exposure to Customer Identity platforms such as Azure AD B2C / Entra External ID is desirable.
• Excellent stakeholder management and cross-functional leadership skills.

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To ensure we balance moments where we know we need to collaborate together and the need for flexibility, Asda has a hybrid way of working with a minimum 3 days a week in one of our Home Offices. Over and above this, each area of Asda may have additional requirements which may require spending more days in the office, visiting suppliers, stores or depots.

You will also get an excellent benefits package including:

• Discretionary company bonus

• Company pension up to 7% matched

• Company Car allowance of £5,700

• 15% colleague discount in store and online

• Free access to wellbeing services such as Stream, 24/7 virtual GP, counselling, health and dental cash plans and a 24/7 employee assistance helpline, alongside discounts across a range of services and activities, from airport parking, enhanced to theme parks and cinemas.

• Asda Allies Inclusion Networks – helping colleagues to make sure everybody is included and that our differences are recognised and celebrated

• Excellent parental leave policies, including maternity & adoption leave, paternity leave, shared parental leave, neonatal care leave, and support for those doing fertility treatments.

We want all colleagues to be able to bring their best and true selves to work, every day. Simply put, we want our colleagues to be Proud to be Asda and proud to be themselves