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