Overview
In this role you will lead the end-to-end PAM transformation programme to replace CyberArk with a SaaS PAM solution across a large Azure/AWS estate. You will work with security, cloud, audit and compliance to define requirements, governance and deployment strategy. You’ll manage vendor selection, RFPs, POCs and a mass rollout while ensuring regulatory alignment and a secure migration path. This is a hands-on, cross-functional leadership role focused on delivering a scalable, compliant PAM solution that supports a FTSE 100 environment. You’ll be the catalyst for a secure, modern identity and access management capability that aligns with the company’s cloud strategy and governance framework.
Responsibilities
- Discovery and requirements governance for PAM transformation across security, cloud, audit and compliance
- Design and run RFP process, evaluate vendor responses, and lead POCs
- Drive procurement, contract negotiation and vendor onboarding with regulatory alignment
- Oversee solution design (Entra ID integration, connectivity, architecture) and manage pilot and mass rollout
- Define migration readiness, rollback plans, and go/no-go criteria
- Deliver training, runbooks, documentation, and readiness reporting
- Manage stakeholder communications and finalize decommissioning of CyberArk
- Ensure audit evidence, compliance closure, and project handover
Key requirements
- Delivery of PAM/IAM or security transformation programmes
- Strong experience in RFP, vendor selection, and POC delivery
- Cloud environments (Azure/AWS)
- Security frameworks (NIST, CIS, NIS2)
- Stakeholder, governance, and audit/compliance management
- stakeholder management
- communication
- cross-functional collaboration
- PAM/IAM transformation
- PAM solution design and rollout
- Entra ID integration
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