Jobs · Pennsylvania

Associate Director, Cybersecurity Engineering

Merck · West Point, PA · 3 wk ago
$142k–$224k/yrFull-time

About the role

The Privileged Access Management (PAM) Team Lead owns the strategy, engineering execution, service health, and continuous improvement of our company's privileged access and secrets management capabilities. The role leads a global PAM engineering team and partners with the IAM Product team, architecture, cybersecurity, and business stakeholders to advance Zero Trust and meet business, regulatory, and operational needs. This role combines people leadership, engineering delivery, technical strategy, and governance to reduce cyber risk and strengthen enterprise identity security.

Responsibilities

  • Own and execute the enterprise PAM roadmap aligned with company's cybersecurity strategy, Zero Trust objectives, and identity security initiatives.
  • Define and maintain PAM standards and governance practices in partnership with security, risk, and architecture teams.
  • Develop and present PAM posture, risk metrics, and remediation plans to leadership, governance, and audit stakeholders.
  • Partner across teams to prioritize PAM adoption, expand privileged access controls and remediate risk.
  • Lead the design and delivery of enterprise PAM and secrets management capabilities.
  • Modernize privileged access through risk-based, least-privilege, and just-in-time access models.
  • Translate PAM strategy into scalable designs, standards, and patterns across all environments.
  • Lead evaluations of new PAM technologies based on need, risk, architectural fit, and cost.
  • Oversee remediation of PAM vulnerabilities, control gaps, audit findings, and

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