Privileged Access Management – Platform Engineering Lead

🕒 May 8

🌽 Illinois – Remote

🌽 Illinois – Remote

💵 $109.5k - $208.5k / year

⏰ Full Time

🟠 Senior

🏗️ Platform Engineer

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AbbVie

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10,000+ employees

Founded 2013

💊 Pharmaceuticals

🧬 Biotechnology

⚕️ Healthcare Insurance

Pharmaceuticals • Biotechnology • Healthcare Insurance

AbbVie is a global pharmaceutical company that discovers and delivers innovative medicines and solutions to enhance lives. With a focus on addressing the world's toughest health challenges, AbbVie operates in over 175 countries, providing a wide range of products across areas like immunology, oncology, neuroscience, and aesthetics. Committed to scientific innovation, AbbVie invests heavily in research and development, aiming to produce first-in-class medicines. The company also emphasizes workplace diversity, sustainability, and patient support initiatives, ensuring positive impact for both its patients and the broader community.

📋 Description

• Owning and executing the PAM product roadmap, balancing current operational needs with longer-term strategic goals for privileged access and secrets management across the enterprise • Proactively identifying and prioritizing use cases for human and non-human privileged access—including service accounts, non-human identities (NHI), agentic/automated workflows, and secure secrets management for cloud and DevOps environments • Anticipating evolving business, security, and technology trends—including AI-driven and agentic access scenarios—and translating them into actionable product features, policies, and program initiatives • Overseeing the design, optimization, and engineering of workflows for privileged account vaulting, lifecycle management, just-in-time (JIT) access, session monitoring, and automated credential rotation across hybrid environments • Driving integration of PAM with related platforms such as IAM, IGA, SIEM, cloud providers (AWS, Azure, GCP), and CI/CD pipelines to support secure automation and enterprise agility • Leading, mentoring, and developing a high-performing PAM engineering team, fostering a culture of innovation and continuous improvement in a rapidly evolving threat landscape • Monitoring PAM platform maturity, industry trends, and emerging standards to continuously sharpen the program's strategic direction • Serving as the internal subject matter expert (SME) for privileged access—advising security, architecture, compliance, and business teams on PAM capabilities, gaps, and best practices • Responding to and remediating audit findings related to privileged access controls and secrets management • Managing budget planning, resource allocation, and vendor relationships for all PAM technologies and solutions • Developing and maintaining documentation, standards, and operating procedures that make PAM understandable and adoptable across the organization

🎯 Requirements

• Bachelor's degree with 7 years of experience, OR Masters Degree and 6 years of experience OR PhD and 2 years of experience • Hands-on experience implementing and operating enterprise Privileged Access Management solutions • Proven product ownership or program management experience with enterprise PAM platforms (e.g., BeyondTrust) • Deep technical knowledge of privileged account governance, credential vaulting, session management, and secrets management across hybrid on-premises and cloud environments • Strong engineering experience integrating PAM with IAM/IGA, directory services, SIEM, cloud platforms, and DevOps ecosystems • Demonstrated expertise in non-human identity (NHI) controls, agentic access, just-in-time (JIT) access, and privileged access automation • Ability to translate complex business, security, and regulatory requirements—including emerging AI-driven scenarios—into actionable platform features and roadmap priorities • Effective stakeholder management and communication skills across both technical and executive audiences • Proven ability to lead teams, drive continuous improvement, and manage strategic transformation in a fast-moving threat environment • Beneficial: Familiarity with cloud-native IAM and secrets management services (e.g., AWS Secrets Manager, Azure Key Vault, HashiCorp Vault) • Experience with scripting and automation (e.g., PowerShell, Python) to support PAM workflow engineering • Knowledge of compliance frameworks and audit requirements related to privileged access (SOX, PCI-DSS, HIPAA, NIST) • Industry certifications such as CISSP, CyberArk Defender/Sentry, BeyondTrust certified professional, or equivalent • Experience in the pharmaceutical or life sciences industry

🏖️ Benefits

• paid time off (vacation, holidays, sick) • medical/dental/vision insurance • 401(k) to eligible employees • eligible to participate in long-term incentive programs