Retained advisory

Keep specialist context.
Keep decisions moving.

A recurring MAITS relationship gives leaders and delivery teams regular access to senior advice without requiring a permanent specialist hire.

Continuity matters

Regular involvement retains programme context, tracks decisions and provides a consistent architecture and assurance perspective as work changes.

Capability

Specialist oversight that stays connected to delivery.

The role and cadence are shaped around the organisation’s governance, programme and internal capability.

TECHNICAL LEAD

Fractional Technical Lead

Own technical direction, architecture decisions, delivery risk and executive advice across a programme or portfolio.

IDENTITY LEAD

Fractional Identity Lead

Maintain IAM strategy, roadmap, architecture and governance across Entra, IGA, PAM, CIAM and authentication.

SECURITY

Security adviser

Provide recurring security architecture, uplift prioritisation, control review and programme governance support.

ARCHITECTURE

Architecture adviser

Review designs, exceptions, integrations, vendors and technical debt against agreed principles.

DIGITAL IDENTITY

Digital identity adviser

Guide credential use cases, trust models, privacy boundaries, standards and ecosystem decisions.

DELIVERY

Implementation support

Stay available to resolve design questions and keep implementation aligned with the intended controls.

Engagement outcomes

Make the next decision and delivery step clearer.

CONTEXT

Context retention

Less time re-explaining the environment, history and reasons behind decisions.

ACCESS

Specialist access

Senior capability is available when material decisions or escalations arise.

GOVERN

Regular governance

Architecture, risk and delivery decisions have a consistent review cadence.

CAPACITY

Flexible capacity

Add specialist depth without immediately recruiting a permanent niche role.

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.

Decision logArchitecture reviewsRisk and issue adviceRoadmap updatesGovernance participationImplementation guidance

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.