Agentic Identity & Access Security Architect

Our client is a leading global investment management company headquartered in London. It manages over $228 billion in assets and serves institutional investors, pension funds, wealth managers, and other sophisticated clients worldwide. The firm specializes in quantitative investing, alternative investments, systematic trading strategies, and technology-driven asset management. Data science, machine learning, and AI are core components of its investment and research processes. As part of our collaboration we will focus on two foundational capabilities required to enable safe and scalable AI adoption across the enterprise: Agentic Security and AI-Ready Data Foundations. What project we have for you: We define how autonomous agents authenticate, obtain scoped access, and operate safely across a large, regulated financial estate where the runtime security model genuinely does not exist yet. The value, and the danger, of agentic AI is set by what an agent can reach: an agent that inherits a full user context and long-lived secrets has an effectively unlimited blast radius. Your job is to close that gap. This is a hands-on senior role for a security architect who still ships code, working at the intersection of enterprise IAM, platform engineering, and the agentic-AI security frontier. You will design and build the IaC-driven, self-service identity patterns, credential flows, and onboarding standards that make the secure way the easy way, across high-velocity teams that have long governed themselves.