Cyber - Digital Identity SME - Senior - Consulting

Position: Cyber - Digital Identity SME - Senior - Consulting - Location OPEN 1

Cyber - Digital Identity SME - Senior - Consulting - Location OPEN 1

Join EY in this Senior consulting role focused on digital identity and privileged access management (PAM). Join EY and help shape a better working world.

Location: Anywhere in Country

Overview: In a rapidly changing IT environment, clients from all industries look to us for trusted solutions for their increasingly complex risks and vulnerabilities. As part of our digital identity (DI) and privileged access management (PAM) teams you’ll be at the heart of that goal, helping clients gain insight and context to their PAM environments and assessing, improving, and building infrastructure, processes, and policies to meet the client’s current and next generation PAM needs.

You’ll use your technical and business skills to drive this mission and impact cyber security globally.

The opportunity: Lead projects or elements of multiple client engagements, including service delivery, business development, and related activities.

Your key responsibilities

• Current state privileged access management assessments
• Capability maturity and benchmarking assessments
• Developing PAM strategy and road maps
• Target operating model and governance
• PAM policies, procedures, and standards
• Vendor analysis and assessments
• Design and architecture for PAM transformation
• PAM process and policies design and re-engineering
• Implementation, expansion, and integrations
• PAM solution migrations
• Discovery, remediation and onboarding of privileged accounts and secrets
• Operation process automation

Skills And Attributes For Success

• Effectively lead and motivate client engagement teams and provide technical leadership in assessment, design, and implementation of security and IT risk solutions.
• Foster an innovative and inclusive team‑oriented work environment; counsel and mentor junior consultants.
• Consistently deliver quality client services and drive high‑quality work products within expected time frames and on budget.
• Use knowledge of the current IT environment and industry trends to identify engagement and client service issues; communicate effectively with teams and clients.

To qualify for the role, you must have

• Bachelor’s degree in a related field and approximately 5 years of related work experience; or a graduate degree and approximately 4 years of related work experience.
• Experience in one or more of the following:
• Privileged access management solutions including design or implementation of PAM technologies (e.g., Cyber Ark, Beyond Trust, Delinea, Hashi Corp).
• Role‑based access control including design and development of user access roles.
• Secret management solutions and understanding of Dev Ops (Ansible, Jenkins, Gitlab, Kubernetes, Terraform) and cloud (Azure, AWS, GCP).
• Operating systems Windows, Linux, and Unix.
• IGAs such as SailPoint or Saviynt.
• Scripting and programming languages (Power Shell, Java, C#) and Microsoft Office (Word, PowerPoint, Visio).
• An understanding of access control concepts including directory services, SAML, LDAP, PKI.
• Experience in process definition, workflow design, and process mapping.
• Valid driver’s license in the US and a valid passport; willingness and ability to travel internationally (40‑60%).

Ideally, you’d also have

• Strong presentation and communication skills and ability to speak with director and VP levels.
• CISSP, CISM, CISA, CIPT, CIPM, CRISC or other relevant certification desired; non‑certified hires required to become certified within one year.
• Vendor certifications for Cyber Ark, Beyond Trust, Delinea, Hashi Corp desired.

What We Look For

We’re interested in intellectually curious people with a genuine passion for cyber security. With your broad exposure across PAM, we’ll turn to you to speak up with innovative new ideas that could make a lasting difference.

What We Offer You

• Comprehensive compensation and benefits package with base salary range in the US from $104,800 to $192,200, and higher ranges for select markets.
• Medical and dental coverage, pension and 401(k), paid time off, flexible vacation policy.
• Hybrid work model with 40‑60% in‑person client engagement.

Are you ready to shape your future with confidence? Apply today.

EY accepts applications for this position on an ongoing basis.

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EY focuses on high‑ethical standards and integrity among its employees and expects all candidates to demonstrate these qualities.

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