Vacancies

Identity & Directory Principal Engineer

Main Responsibility

• Implement and operate an HR lead Identity Governance and Administration (IGA) platform
• Accountable and responsible for day-to-day health and evolution of identity services based on Active Directory, LDAP, Entra ID, etc. Key arears of focus will be a) platform availability, resilience, and performance b) secure configuration and baseline management c) monitoring and incident response for identity services d) certificate, trust and federation configurations e) service lifecycle management (upgrades, depreciation, migrations)
• Structure and behavior of directories - specifically domain design and trust relationships, OU and delegation model, group policy design and maintenance, group structures, naming standards and attribute consistency and schema management,
• How users authenticate and gain initial access which will include authentication protocols (OpenID connect, SAML, Kerberos, etc.), Conditional Access technical implementation, legacy authentication control and reduction.
• Identity Security and hardening – Tiered admin models, Privilege Access hardening (PAW, break-glass accounts), identity security posture management, depreciate legacy authentication and weak protocols.
• Establish an appropriate directory source for external 3rd parties and contractors, etc. so accounts can be tracked. 
• Maintain and enforce workstyle profiles whilst also establishing an authoritative source for commercial licensing.
• Work with Infrastructure teams to implement and test appropriate Disaster Recovery scenarios.
• Generate and maintain appropriate support & design documentation
• Have accountable for identity provisioning for all employees, contractors and 3rd parties.
• Simply landscape where possible and decommission aged solutions such as ADFS.
• Implement and maintain solutions that securely enable end user to perform self-service actions such as reset passwords
• Work with Senior Solution Architect to define, implement new enterprise-wide capabilities and configurations that align with Roadmap items

The Ideal Candidate

• 5+ years working in IT 
• Deep knowledge around Directories and authentication standards
• Background in solution design
• Application development capabilities with experience of APIs 
• Proven experience in delivering complex solutions across both on premise and cloud.
• Effective communicator with good interpersonal and analytical skills
• Manage complex deliverables

Well are proud to be a diverse and inclusive employer. If you have any specific requirements, we'll do everything we can to support you. Whether it is to find a pharmacy that is accessible, or if it is a part time position you are looking for, we can help find the role that is right for you. If you need us to make any reasonable adjustments to our recruitment process, we will be happy to accommodate you.

Please be aware that due to the high number of applications we receive it may not be possible for us to provide an outcome to all applicants. If you are not contacted within 28 days of your submission unfortunately you will have been unsuccessful.

Package Description

• Competitive salaries
• Excellent training & development opportunities
• Paid Holidays
• Workplace pension scheme
• Staff Discount
• Travel Loans and more….. 

About the Company

For over 70 years, we’ve been looking after the health and wellbeing of communities across the UK. Well Pharmacy (part of Bestway Healthcare) is the second largest pharmacy chain in the UK with c.760 pharmacies and a team of around 7,000 colleagues based across our Community Pharmacies, Online Pharmacy, Healthcare Services Centre, Community Drivers, Bestway Medhub & Wardles team and our Support Centre team.

Our mission is to be here for the wellbeing of our patients and customers, to provide the best community pharmacy experience in the UK for everyone, for our patients, our customers, our people, and our NHS.

The pharmacy of the future will look very different from the one we know today. It will play a huge role in transforming primary healthcare and we will play a central role in bringing it to life.

We will use our clinical expertise and technological ambition to take advantage of the potential this future has to offer us. Making medicines, advice, services and care available in the places and spaces that people need and want it most.

We want to be a great business. To be recognised as delivering a community pharmacy experience that is the best there is. To do this we want our teams to feel proud about the positive impact they make, feel valued as part of a close-knit and expert community, and feel confident in their role in a business that is stable, innovative, and caring.

‘Together we make a difference’