PRIVILEGED ACCESS MANAGEMENT (PAM) ARCHITECT

An exciting opportunity for a Privileged Access Management (PAM Architect) or Lead Cyber Engineer looking to step up and join a growing global financial services business to define and lead the privileged access strategy, target architecture and solution designs across a hybrid estate — reducing the risk carried by privileged human, administrative and service identities.

Key Responsibilities

• Set the target architecture — principles, standards, reference designs and the roadmap to reach them
• Embed privileged access controls consistently across on-premises infrastructure, AWS, Azure and SaaS
• Oversee implementations and provide design assurance, without owning day-to-day operations
• Align privileged access to Zero Trust and the wider enterprise identity strategy
• Balance security against usability — controls administrators can't live with don't survive
• Carry designs through Security, Cloud, Infrastructure and Risk without positional authority.

Key Skills / Experience

• Enterprise PAM architecture ownership — you personally defined a target state, not just ran the platform
• CyberArk architecture and deployment experience, self-hosted or Privilege Cloud, with implementation oversight
• CyberArk Sentry certification or higher, backed by hands-on deployment evidence
• Strong Active Directory and Microsoft Entra ID foundations, with real AWS and Azure exposure
• Regulated or high-consequence control experience — risk, audit, evidence
• Senior stakeholder influence: the ability to get a design adopted, not just approved
• Financial services background,
• CyberArk Guardian, CISSP / CCSP / SC-300,
• Privilege Cloud migration,
• secrets management and non-human identity,
• endpoint privilege management,
• cloud-native just-in-time access,
• automation via PowerShell, APIs or Terraform.