Head of Privileged and Infrastructure Access Management, Managing Director

Global Cybersecurity (GCS) protects State Street and its clients from the impact of cyber-attacks against systems by understanding the risks these attacks present and mitigating them through a robust, continuously evolving, cybersecurity program and control environment.

Reporting to the Head of Identity & Access Management, the Head of Privileged and Infrastructure Access Management, MD will lead the strategic direction, development, and implementation of the bank's Privileged and Infrastructure Access program. This role is critical in ensuring the secure management of privileged and machine identities, authentication, and authorization across all infrastructure platforms channels. The successful candidate will work closely with various departments, including Platform Engineering, End User Computing, Production management and the application development community to enhance the bank's privileged access management program.

Responsibilities:

• Strategic Leadership: Develop and lead the global Infrastructure Access Management strategy aligned with enterprise cybersecurity, IAM, and risk management objectives. Represent PAM in internal governance forums and external regulatory engagements.
• Program Ownership: Own the end-to-end lifecycle of privileged and infrastructure access, including onboarding, provisioning, session management, monitoring, and deprovisioning. Drive modernization and automation initiatives, including vaulting, just-in-time (JIT) access, and zero trust implementations.
• Technology & Architecture: Oversee the architecture, engineering, and operations of PAM platforms. Partner with infrastructure, cloud, and DevSecOps teams to integrate PAM into hybrid and cloud-native environments.
• Risk & Compliance: Ensure alignment with global regulatory requirements (e.g., FFIEC, EBA, MAS, APRA, etc.) and internal policies. Manage audit readiness, response, and remediation related to privileged access.
• People & Stakeholder Management: Lead and develop a high-performing, globally distributed PAM team. Partner with application owners, IT operations, risk, and compliance to embed PAM controls across the enterprise.
• Metrics & Continuous Improvement: Define and track KPIs and KRIs for PAM effectiveness and risk reduction. Continuously assess and improve PAM processes, technology posture, and user experience.

Required Qualifications:

• Education & Certification: Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Information Security, Computer Science, or a related field. Relevant certifications (e.g., CISSP, CISM, CRISC, GIAC, or vendor certifications like CyberArk Defender/Sentry).
• Experience: 10+ years in information security, with 5+ years specifically leading privileged access or identity security functions in complex, regulated environments. Demonstrated success leading PAM in a multinational financial institution or critical infrastructure context. Deep knowledge of PAM technologies, zero trust principles, and identity governance integration.
• Skills: Strong understanding of regulatory expectations in financial services related to identity and access. Ability to influence across technical and executive audiences globally. Exceptional communication, strategic thinking, and execution skills.

Key Competencies:

• Leadership: Ability to lead and inspire a team to achieve strategic goals.
• Customer Focus: Commitment to enhancing the customer experience through secure and efficient identity management.
• Transformation: Ability to drive transformation in a complex environment.
• Collaboration: Strong ability to work collaboratively with various stakeholders.

Location: UK, Ireland

Are you the right candidate? Yes! We truly believe in the power that comes from the diverse backgrounds and experiences our employees bring with them. Although each vacancy details what we are looking for, we don’t necessarily need you to fulfil all of them when applying. If you like change and innovation, seek to see the bigger picture, make data driven decisions and are a good team player, you could be a great fit.

Why this role is important to us: Our technology function, Global Technology Services (GTS), is vital to State Street and is the key enabler for our business to deliver data and insights to our clients. We’re driving the company’s digital transformation and expanding business capabilities using industry best practices and advanced technologies such as cloud, artificial intelligence and robotics process automation.

We offer a collaborative environment where technology skills and innovation are valued in a global organization. We’re looking for top technical talent to join our team and deliver creative technology solutions that help us become an end-to-end, next-generation financial services company. Join us if you want to improve your technical skills, solve real problems and make your mark in our industry.

About State Street: What we do. State Street is one of the largest custodian banks, asset managers and asset intelligence companies in the world. From technology to product innovation, we’re making our mark in the financial services industry. For more than two centuries, we’ve been helping our clients safeguard and steward the investments of millions of people. We provide investment servicing, data & analytics, investment research & trading and investment management to institutional clients.

Work, Live and Grow: We make all efforts to create a great work environment. Our benefits packages are competitive and comprehensive. Details vary by location, but you may expect generous medical care, insurance and savings plans, among other perks. You’ll have access to flexible Work Programs to help you match your needs. And our wealth of development programs and educational support will help you reach your full potential.

Inclusion, Diversity and Social Responsibility: We truly believe our employees’ diverse backgrounds, experiences and perspectives are a powerful contributor to creating an inclusive environment where everyone can thrive and reach their maximum potential while adding value to both our organization and our clients. We warmly welcome candidates of diverse origin, background, ability, age, sexual orientation, gender identity and personality. Another fundamental value at State Street is active engagement with our communities around the world, both as a partner and a leader. You will have tools to help balance your professional and personal life, paid volunteer days, matching gift programs and access to employee networks that help you stay connected to what matters to you.

State Street is an equal opportunity and affirmative action employer.