Engineering-L2-Bengaluru-Vice President-Security Engineering

Goldman Sachs Bank AG; Bengaluru; On-site; INR 1,200,000 - 2,000,000; Full time

Job summary

Goldman Sachs Bank AG is seeking an experienced PAM program lead in Bengaluru to drive strategic roadmap, governance, and multi-team coordination across IAM, infrastructure, and cloud. The role focuses on privileged access, risk reporting, and regulatory alignment in a complex enterprise environment.

The candidate will mature PAM capabilities, build executive dashboards, and partner with Technology Risk, Compliance, and Audit to remediate findings while advancing MFA and RBAC controls across

Qualifications

• 7+ years of experience in Cybersecurity, IAM, PAM, Information Security, Technology Risk, or Security Engineering.
• Strong understanding of PAM, IAM, Zero Trust, RBAC, secrets management, MFA, and cloud security (AWS, Azure, GCP).
• Experience leading cross-functional initiatives with engineering, risk, compliance, and audit teams.
• Bachelor’s degree as specified or equivalent practical experience.

Responsibilities

• Drive strategic roadmap and execution of the enterprise PAM program.
• Establish and maintain firm-wide privileged access standards, controls, and operating procedures.
• Lead cross-functional initiatives spanning IAM, Infrastructure, Cloud, Application Engineering, and Technology Risk teams.
• Develop and execute multi-year PAM capability uplift programs.
• Define and oversee governance processes for privileged accounts, privileged roles, break-glass access, and privileged activities.
• Ensure alignment with internal security standards, regulatory requirements, and industry frameworks such as NIST.
• Partner with Technology Risk, Compliance, Internal Audit, and regulators to address PAM-related findings and remediation activities.
• Build and maintain KRIs and KPIs for executive reporting
• Partner with engineering teams to implement PAM controls within enterprise platforms and applications.
• Drive automation for onboarding, provisioning, certification, monitoring, and de-provisioning privileged access.
• Support cloud and hybrid environments, ensuring secure management of privileged identities across modern infrastructure.
• Influence architectural decisions that improve security while maintaining operational efficiency.
• Develop executive dashboards measuring PAM coverage, privileged account inventory, JIT adoption, MFA coverage, review completion rates, and control effectiveness.
• Provide regular updates to senior management committees and leadership.
• Translate technical risk into business-focused insights and recommendations.

Skills

PAM knowledge

IAM

Zero Trust

Executive communication

Cross-functional leadership

Education

Bachelor’s degree in CS / Cybersecurity

Tools

CyberArk

BeyondTrust

HashiCorp Vault

AWS IAM

Entra ID PIM

Job description

Roles and Key Responsibilities

• Drive strategic roadmap and execution of the enterprise PAM program.
• Establish and maintain firm-wide privileged access standards, controls, and operating procedures.
• Lead cross-functional initiatives spanning IAM, Infrastructure, Cloud, Application Engineering, and Technology Risk teams.
• Develop and execute multi-year PAM capability uplift programs.
• Define and oversee governance processes for privileged accounts, privileged roles, break-glass access, and privileged activities.
• Ensure alignment with internal security standards, regulatory requirements, and industry frameworks such as NIST.
• Partner with Technology Risk, Compliance, Internal Audit, and regulators to address PAM-related findings and remediation activities.
• Build and maintain Key Risk Indicators (KRIs) and Key Performance Indicators (KPIs) for executive reporting
• Partner with engineering teams to implement PAM controls within enterprise platforms and applications.
• Drive automation for onboarding, provisioning, certification, monitoring, and de-provisioning privileged access.
• Support cloud and hybrid environments, ensuring secure management of privileged identities across modern infrastructure.
• Influence architectural decisions that improve security while maintaining operational efficiency.
• Develop executive dashboards measuring PAM coverage, privileged account inventory, JIT adoption, MFA coverage, review completion rates, and control effectiveness.
• Provide regular updates to senior management committees and leadership.
• Translate technical risk into business-focused insights and recommendations.

Required Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in computer science, Cybersecurity, Information Systems, Engineering, or equivalent practical experience.
• 7+ years of experience in Cybersecurity, IAM, PAM, Information Security, Technology Risk, or Security Engineering.
• Strong understanding of Privileged Access Management (PAM), Identity and Access Management (IAM), Zero Trust security principles, role-based access controls and privileged role governance, secrets management and vault technologies, modern authentication and MFA, security monitoring and detection engineering, and cloud security across AWS, Azure, and GCP environments.
• Strong stakeholder management and executive communication skills.
• Experience driving cross-functional initiatives involving engineering, risk, compliance, and audit teams.

Preferred Qualifications

• Familiarity with security and regulatory frameworks such as NIST CSF, NIST 800-53, ISO 27001, FFIEC, SOX, or similar standards, with experience supporting regulatory exams or audit engagements.
• Experience with CyberArk, BeyondTrust, HashiCorp Vault, AWS IAM, Entra ID PIM, or equivalent PAM technologies is an advantage.
• Relevant security certifications, such as CISSP, CISM, CRISC, CCSP, or PAM/IAM-related credentials, are highly desirable.

Why Join Us

This is an opportunity to build and scale one of the firm's most strategic cybersecurity programs. You will work with senior leaders, security architects, engineers, and risk professionals to shape the future of privileged

Healthcare & Medical Insurance

We offer a wide range of health and welfare programs that vary depending on office location. These generally include medical, dental, short-term disability, long-term disability, life, accidental death, labor accident and business travel accident insurance.

Financial Wellness & Retirement

We offer competitive vacation policies based on employee level and office location. We promote time off from work to recharge by providing generous vacation entitlements and a minimum of three weeks expected vacation usage each year.

Health Services

We offer a medical advocacy service for employees and family members facing critical health situations, and counseling and referral services through the Employee Assistance Program (EAP). We provide Global Medical, Security and Travel Assistance and a Workplace Ergonomics Program. We also offer state-of-the-art on-site health centers in certain offices.

Fitness

To encourage employees to live a healthy and active lifestyle, some of our offices feature on-site fitness centers. For eligible employees we typically reimburse fees paid for a fitness club membership or activity (up to a pre-approved amount).

Child Care & Family Care

We offer on-site child care centers that provide full-time and emergency back-up care, as well as mother and baby rooms and homework rooms. In every office, we provide advice and counseling services, expectant parent resources and transitional programs for parents returning from parental leave. Adoption, surrogacy, egg donation and egg retrieval stipends are also available.

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