Role-Based Access Control (RBAC) Lead - #2160434

RBAC Lead – Contract Opportunity

Location: Bristol – 2 days per week

Contract: Until 31 March 2027

Day Rate: £600 per day (Umbrella)

IR35: Inside IR35

Security Clearance: SC Clearance required

The Opportunity

We are currently seeking an experienced RBAC Lead to join a major enterprise transformation programme and provide authority-side leadership, governance, oversight and assurance across Role-Based Access Control and Identity & Access Management.

This is a senior role for someone who can operate confidently across business, technology, security, architecture, data, service management and delivery partners, ensuring that RBAC is designed and governed consistently across a complex technology landscape.

The successful candidate will play a key role in establishing a secure, controlled, auditable and operationally sustainable RBAC approach across multiple applications, platforms and integrations.

What You'll Be Doing

As the RBAC Lead, you will:

• Lead the overall RBAC strategy, governance and assurance approach.
• Establish and maintain RBAC principles, standards, controls and governance frameworks.
• Provide independent oversight and constructive challenge to implementation and delivery partners.
• Ensure consistency of RBAC approaches across business functions, applications and technical environments.
• Oversee the definition of Business RBAC across functional areas.
• Work closely with technical teams responsible for Technical RBAC, including privileged, integration, automated and service-support access.
• Ensure least privilege and segregation of duties are embedded within RBAC models.
• Provide oversight of IAM operations, access provisioning and automated role allocation.
• Support effective Joiner, Mover and Leaver processes.
• Oversee access reviews, audits and compliance activities.
• Ensure appropriate audit trails and evidence are maintained.
• Provide oversight of access-related security incidents and associated remediation.
• Identify and manage RBAC risks, issues, dependencies and decisions.
• Work closely with suppliers, systems integrators and delivery partners.
• Provide clear reporting, assurance and advice to senior stakeholders.

What We're Looking For

We're looking for an experienced RBAC/IAM professional with a strong background in governance, assurance and enterprise transformation.

You should have:

• Proven experience leading RBAC, IAM or access-governance activities within a complex enterprise environment.
• Strong knowledge of RBAC principles, governance and operating models.
• Experience providing leadership and assurance rather than focusing solely on technical configuration.
• Strong understanding of IAM and identity lifecycle management.
• Experience with access provisioning and automated role allocation.
• Experience overseeing Joiner, Mover and Leaver processes.
• Experience with access reviews, audits and compliance.
• Strong understanding of least privilege and segregation of duties.
• Experience working across complex technology estates involving multiple applications and integrations.
• Experience working with senior business, technology, security and architecture stakeholders.
• Experience providing governance and assurance over systems integrators or delivery partners.
• Strong risk, governance and stakeholder-management skills.
• Experience within a large-scale transformation or modernisation programme.
• Current SC Clearance.

Desirable

Experience in one or more of the following would be advantageous:

• Oracle Fusion or large-scale Oracle environments.
• ERP or corporate-services transformation programmes.
• IAM/RBAC across cloud, SaaS, data and integration environments.
• UK Government, Defence or another highly regulated environment.
• Privileged Access Management (PAM).
• Service accounts, integration identities and automated access.
• Developing RBAC governance frameworks and assurance models.
• Complex programmes involving multiple delivery partners.

Why This Role?

This is an opportunity to take a senior authority-side position within a major enterprise transformation programme, helping shape how RBAC and IAM are governed across a complex technology estate.

You will have the opportunity to influence RBAC strategy, governance, security controls, assurance and operational readiness, working with senior stakeholders and multiple delivery partners.

This is not a hands-on RBAC configuration role. The focus is on leadership, governance, oversight, assurance and providing constructive challenge to delivery teams.

If you are an experienced RBAC / IAM Lead with strong governance and assurance experience, and you hold SC Clearance, we would be interested in hearing from you.