Manager, Privileged Access Management (PAM)

<p><b><span><span>ROLE SUMMARY</span></span></b></p><p><span> </span></p><p><span><span>Technology impacts everything we do. Pfizer’s digital and ‘data first’ strategy focuses on implementing impactful and innovative technology solutions across all functions from research to manufacturing. Whether you are digitizing drug discovery and development, identifying solutions, or making our work easier and faster, you will be making a difference to countless lives.</span></span></p><p><span><span>Pfizer’s CISO organization delivers proactive cyber defense for Pfizer global enterprise.  Our mission is to secure all of Pfizer’s digital information assets ranging from our scientific breakthroughs to the manufacturing floor, and out to the patients we serve.  We achieve this mission through a combination of world-class talent, top-tier technologies, industry leading best practices, and the promotion of a cybersecurity ownership culture across the company.  </span></span></p><p></p><p><span><span>Strong identity and privileged access controls are vital to Pfizer’s cybersecurity posture and operational resilience. The Manager, Privileged Access Management (PAM), is responsible for supporting the strategy, delivery, and ongoing management of enterprise PAM technologies across Pfizer Digital. This role drives innovation to reduce privileged access risk, strengthen least-privilege controls, and improve the user experience across enterprise, cloud, application, and machine-to-machine environments.</span></span></p><p></p><p><span><span>This is a hands-on technical role responsible for modernizing and operating privileged access capabilities that support evolving business and security requirements. The role will help advance Pfizer’s PAM services across privileged user access, service accounts, machine identities, API secrets, cloud controls, session management, credential rotation, and break-glass access while ensuring the platform remains secure, scalable, reliable, and easy to use.</span></span></p><p></p><p><span><span>The Manager will support enhancements, continuous improvement initiatives, and the work activities of technical resources supporting PAM services. Responsibilities include oversight of contingent workers, requirements definition, solution design, technical specification, development, testing, implementation support, and break/fix activities for PAM platforms and related services. This role interprets internal and external business challenges, applies industry best practices, and recommends improvements to products, processes, services, and controls.</span></span></p><p></p><p><span><b>ROLE RESPONSIBILITIES</b></span></p><ul><li><span>Support the management of enterprise Privileged Access Management services, helping ensure platform reliability, security, scalability, and compliance.</span></li><li><span>Develop, deploy, and maintain PAM solutions that meet business, technical, cybersecurity, and regulatory requirements.</span></li><li><span>Work independently on well-defined tasks and escalate ambiguous or cross-team issues to senior leadership as needed.</span></li><li><span>Support the integration of applications, infrastructure targets, service accounts, and secrets into PAM services, including upgrades and ongoing lifecycle support.</span></li><li><span>Coordinate the day-to-day work of technical resources, including contingent staff, supporting enhancements and service improvements.</span></li><li><span>Partner with service owners, application teams, cloud teams, and cybersecurity stakeholders to help translate business needs into secure and scalable PAM solutions.</span></li><li><span>Maintain service patterns, technical workflows, architecture diagrams, implementation documentation, and operational runbooks.</span></li><li><span>Build and maintain automation using APIs, scripting, and industry-standard PAM technologies to improve efficiency and user experience.</span></li><li><span>Develop and maintain Infrastructure as Code solutions, including Terraform, to support cloud infrastructure automation.</span></li><li><span>Follow code quality, security, and maintainability standards, including participating in reviews, documentation, and testing.</span></li><li><span>Execute unit, smoke, functional, and regression testing to support reliable code deployment.</span></li><li><span>Identify and support continuous improvement opportunities that reduce manual work, strengthen controls, and improve service reliability.</span></li><li><span>Support business-as-usual operations, including service health monitoring, planned maintenance, and escalation support as needed.</span></li><li><span>Assist in managing incidents, problems, and service risks using ITIL-aligned practices, including root cause analysis and remediation support.</span></li><li><span>Communicate clearly with technical and non-technical stakeholders and contribute to mentoring junior team members.</span></li></ul><p><span> </span><span> </span>