Identity leadership

Give identity a senior owner.
Across every control boundary.

A fractional Identity Lead gives organisations accountable specialist direction across IAM strategy, architecture, roadmap, governance and delivery.

Identity is a connected discipline

Workforce, privileged, customer, machine and digital identity decisions must align even when platforms and delivery teams differ.

Capability

Lead the complete identity agenda.

This service is designed for organisations whose identity programme has outgrown available internal leadership capacity.

STRATEGY

IAM strategy and roadmap

Set priorities, target state, investment sequence, measures and the identity operating model.

ARCHITECTURE

Identity architecture

Own patterns across Entra, directories, federation, authentication, authorisation, lifecycle and integration.

GOVERNANCE

IGA, PAM and RBAC

Connect lifecycle, entitlement ownership, roles, privileged access, reviews and separation of duties.

CUSTOMER

CIAM and external identity

Guide customer, partner, guest and B2B/B2C identity journeys, recovery, consent and lifecycle.

SECURITY

Authentication and identity security

Direct passkeys, MFA, Conditional Access, risk, recovery and privileged authentication.

DELIVERY

Programme ownership

Coordinate vendors, internal teams, delivery dependencies, assurance and knowledge transfer.

Engagement outcomes

Make the next decision and delivery step clearer.

OWNERSHIP

One accountable direction

Identity decisions connect to a named leader and an agreed operating model.

ROADMAP

Prioritised programme

Security, lifecycle, customer and platform work is sequenced around material risk.

COHERENCE

Architecture coherence

Projects use consistent identity principles and integration boundaries.

CAPABILITY

Internal uplift

Teams gain the context and practices needed to sustain the programme.

Expected outputs

Useful artefacts for the people who must act.

Outputs are agreed for the engagement scope and written for the leaders, architects, engineers, operators and assurance teams who will use them.

IAM strategyIdentity roadmapTarget architectureOperating modelGovernance forumsProgramme assuranceCapability plan

From advice through implementation

Enter at the stage where support is needed.

MAITS can provide one bounded stage or remain involved across design, delivery, validation and capability transfer.

01 / DISCOVER

Understand the decision

Clarify the people, systems, obligations, constraints, ownership and outcome involved.

02 / ASSESS

Establish current state

Review evidence, architecture, controls, risk, capability and delivery readiness.

03 / DESIGN

Define the target

Set principles, architecture, policy, operating ownership and a practical change sequence.

04 / DELIVER

Implement the change

Configure, integrate, automate, migrate and roll out alongside accountable teams.

05 / VALIDATE

Test the outcome

Review behaviour, evidence, exceptions, recovery, readiness and residual risk.

06 / UPLIFT

Transfer capability

Embed knowledge, governance, runbooks, measures and an owned improvement path.

Related capability

Continue with the service that matches the next decision.

Start a conversation

Start with the requirement, risk or decision.

Tell us what needs senior attention and what outcome the organisation needs. We’ll agree an engagement shape around the work.