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About the job

Job summary

The Opportunity

Parliamentary Digital Services are seeking a highly skilled and experienced Principal Engineer: Digital Identity to join our team within the Platforms Directorate. As the Principal Engineer for Digital Identity, you will play a critical role in the design, implementation, and maintenance of core infrastructure platforms. You will provide expert technical guidance and leadership to ensure secure, highly available, reliable, and performant digital identity platforms, enabling both Houses of Parliament to meet their strategic and business objectives.

Job description

On a daily basis, you will provide leadership across a variety of technologies supported by our team, including Active Directory, Entra ID or PKI services.

• Lead the design, implementation, and maintenance of digital identity platforms, aligned with the department's strategic objectives and focused on providing an excellent customer service.
• Provide expert technical guidance on digital identity technologies, methodologies, and best practices.
• Collaborate with stakeholders to understand business requirements and design scalable and resilient digital identity solutions.
• Evaluate emerging technologies and industry trends in digital identity, assessing their potential benefits and making recommendations for adoption.
• Define and enforce security measures and standards to protect infrastructure assets and data, ensuring compliance with parliamentary policies and standards.
• Develop and maintain digital identity strategies, standards, and guidelines to support the organization's digital infrastructure.
• Act as a point of escalation for complex technical issues, providing guidance and resolution to ensure minimal disruption to services.
• Lead and mentor a team of digital identity engineers, promoting best practice, knowledge sharing and professional development.
• Ownership of strong working relationships with 3rd party suppliers and managed service providers contracted to deliver services to Parliament.
• Represent Digital Infrastructure at PDS forums and liaise with other teams and 3rd parties as required

Please note the above duties are not intended to be an exhaustive list. You may be required to undertake other duties that are appropriate to your role and pay band, as agreed with your line manager.

Person specification

Criterion 1

You are a technical subject matter expert with hands-on operational experience and can demonstrate the following key technical knowledge: 

• Digital identity management and lifecycle utilising RBAC, PIM, PAM, CCM, etc.
• Management and implementation of Active Directory, AD management tools such as Active Roles, and Azure AD.
• Public and Private Cloud IAM (Identity & Access Management). Familiarity with IaaS, PaaS solutions such as Entra ID and AWS as well as securing SaaS.
• Single Sign-on and Federation using standard protocols and frameworks such as Kerberos, SPNEGO, SAML 2.0, ADFS, OpenID Connect, Azure AD B2B and B2C, etc.
• Public Key Cryptography PKI and administration of Certification Authority services.
• Modern Authentication techniques and Device Authentication & Profiling. 
• Remote Access Solution such as Windows Direct Access and/or Always On VPN.
• Zero Trust Architecture concepts for Identity and Access Management.
• PowerShell scripting would be desirable.

Criterion 2

You set the technical direction, developing strategy, and supporting roadmaps which strive for continuous improvement of digital identity services. You are a highly effective leader with experience of building and maintaining a high performing and actively engaged team, whilst upholding the values of equality, diversity, and inclusion. You have recent experience of leading a team and building a supportive and collaborative team culture, empowering others to take ownership, deliver and develop.

Criterion 3

You have an expert level of experience in successfully managing digital identity platform lifecycle and the ability to resiliently respond to cyber security threats. You implement highly effective operational & BCDR plans, ensuring a robust and resilient approach for digital identity, utilising external suppliers where appropriate.

Criterion 4

You can think creatively, ask the right questions, and critically evaluate and communicate findings to a larger team, sometimes working through conflicting information. You can lead investigative work into problems and opportunities in existing processes and create recommendations for improvements. You make decisions at the appropriate time, considering the needs of the situation, priorities, constraints, and the availability of necessary information.

Criterion 5

You have first-hand experience of owning relationships with third-party solutions or managed service providers to deliver user friendly and cyber secure solutions which are cost effective and sustainable. You are an effective contract manager and proactively manage resources and budgets. 

Criterion 6

You have strong stakeholder management skills and evidence of your ability to translate business requirements and user/stakeholder needs into effective work plans and practical working solutions. You proactively forge collaborative working relationships with other digital leaders to deliver strategic outcomes. You can influence people at all levels within the organisation including a challenging customer base

Benefits

Please refer to our Candidate Information Pack for a full list of our benefits which include:

• up to 35 days annual leave in addition to bank holidays
• generous maternity pay policy up to 6 months full pay
• great pension scheme options (contributory and non-contributory)
• on-site subsidised gym, nursery, catering, post office, travel office and GP
• flexible options including hybrid working and family friendly policies

Contact point for applicants

Job contact :

• Name : The Resourcing team
• Email : digitalrecruitment@parliament.uk

Recruitment team

• Email : digitalrecruitment@parliament.uk