Senior Privileged Access Management; PAM Specialist

Senior Privileged Access Management (PAM) Specialist – Canton, CT. Job Number: 26-00832

The Senior PAM Specialist is a key member of the Identity & Access Management organization responsible for overseeing the policies, controls, and technologies governing privileged accounts and elevated access across the enterprise. The role is responsible for engineering, administering and improving the enterprise PAM program, and has accountability for the full lifecycle of privileged identities, implementing technical controls to safeguard high‑risk accounts, leading major PAM platform initiatives and partnering with technology and business teams to ensure secure, compliant access to critical systems.

The position requires advanced technical expertise in PAM, IAM, analytical skills, and the ability to partner across security, infrastructure, audit, and application teams to maintain a secure and compliant privileged access ecosystem.

• Design, implement, and manage the enterprise PAM solution (e.g., password vaulting, session monitoring, credential rotation, credential relationships, and privileged access integrations with applications).
• Maintain, upgrade, and optimize PAM infrastructure and integrations across on‑prem, cloud, and SaaS environments.
• Ensure secure onboarding and lifecycle management of privileged accounts, service accounts, and application credentials.
• Lead governance of privileged access processes, including periodic access certifications, entitlement reviews, break‑glass monitoring, and elevated‑access lifecycle controls.
• Develop and manage PAM dashboards, KPIs, and reporting to measure control effectiveness, highlight risk trends, and ensure compliance with internal policies and regulatory requirements (SOX, NYDFS, etc.).
• Identify, document, and track PAM‑related issues; drive remediation efforts to closure in partnership with technology and application teams.
• Design and implement automated solutions for privileged access reporting, session monitoring, vaulting operations, and exception management using Power Shell, Python, SQL, or workflow tools.
• Serve as SME for PAM platforms such as Beyond Trust, Microsoft Entra Privileged Identity Management (PIM), or equivalent technologies.
• Oversee integration of PAM controls with enterprise systems, directories, cloud platforms, and critical applications; support onboarding of new privileged accounts and systems.
• Conduct trend analysis on PAM data to identify anomalies or unusual access patterns and escale for investigation.
• Provide advanced Tier II‑III troubleshooting for privileged access failures, vaulting issues, session monitoring, credential rotation, and privileged access integrations.
• Prioritize urgent PAM‑related requests, high‑risk access elevations, and break‑glass events.
• Maintain and enhance PAM operational documentation, workflows, and knowledge‑base content.
• Partner with Internal Audit, Cybersecurity, Infrastructure, and Application Owners to ensure privileged access processes meet regulatory and internal control expectations.
• Advise stakeholders on RBAC, least privilege design, SoD risk identification, and privileged access architecture.
• Participate in and contribute to security assessments, incident reviews, and access‑related investigations.
• Collaborate on IAM and PAM strategy, policies, and continuous‑improvement initiatives.
• Contribute to group projects, process redesign efforts, and enterprise PAM roadmap planning.
• Cross‑train team members to maintain operational continuity and uplift team capability.
• Provide informal mentoring to junior IAM/PAM team members.
• Provide technical direction, support and mentoring to junior team members, application development and architecture work in a collaborative manner.
• Participate in architecture reviews and contribute to long‑term identity security strategy.
• Operate with a high level of independence and technical judgment.
• Make recommendations on PAM design, control frameworks, and automation opportunities.
• Escalate systemic risks, policy gaps, and material access control findings.

• Strong expertise with one or more PAM platforms (Beyond Trust, Microsoft…