Privileged Access Management (PAM) Senior Specialist (HashiCorp Vault experience required)

Bank of America Corporation; Denver (CO); On-site; USD 140,000 - 180,000; Full time

Job summary

Bank of America is seeking a Senior Privileged Access Management Specialist to lead adoption of CyberArk and HashiCorp Vault across applications in a large enterprise. You will partner with security, development, and infrastructure teams to design scalable vault-enabled solutions.

You will manage onboarding roadmaps, establish governance, and drive delivery discipline to ensure secure access and secrets management across the organization.

Qualifications

• 10+ years leading security, IAM, PAM, secrets, or app security in a large enterprise.
• Strong understanding of CyberArk, HashiCorp Vault, PAM, secrets management, and app security principles.
• Ability to work with application development teams and understand modern architectures, APIs, integration patterns.
• Demonstrated ability to drive complex cross-functional initiatives from planning through execution.
• Technical depth to review solution designs and ensure alignment with security standards.
• Strong organizational, communication, stakeholder management, and influence skills.
• Detail-oriented execution mindset with governance and delivery discipline.

Responsibilities

• Drive adoption of CyberArk and HashiCorp Vault across application portfolios.
• Develop onboarding plans, roadmaps, and milestones to accelerate platform adoption.
• Coordinate cross-functional delivery across application, infrastructure, security, product, and platform teams.
• Track metrics, risks, dependencies, and blockers to ensure execution discipline and measurable progress.
• Partner with application teams to design and implement vault-aware solutions aligned to security standards.
• Provide technical guidance on secrets management, privileged access integration, credential modernization, and secure implementation practices.
• Review solution designs and integration patterns to ensure alignment with enterprise standards.
• Identify opportunities to simplify adoption through automation, scalable integrations, and repeatable practices.
• Build trusted relationships with technology leaders, architects, developers, and business partners.
• Communicate status, risks, dependencies, and recommendations to senior stakeholders.
• Influence teams to align around enterprise security objectives, adoption priorities, and delivery timelines.

Skills

CyberArk & Vault

IAM & PAM leadership

Application security

APIs & integration

Cross-functional influence

Tools

HashiCorp Vault

CyberArk

Job description

Privileged Access Management (PAM) Senior Specialist (HashiCorp Vault experience required)

Boston, Massachusetts;Washington, District of Columbia; Denver, Colorado; Jersey City, New Jersey; Chicago, Illinois

Job Description

At Bank of America, we are guided by a common purpose to help make financial lives better through the power of every connection. We do this by driving Responsible Growth and delivering for our clients, teammates, communities and shareholders every day.

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Overview

At Bank of America, we are guided by a common purpose to help make financial lives better through the power of every connection. We do this by driving Responsible Growth and delivering for our clients, teammates, communities and shareholders every day.

Being a Great Place to Work is core to how we drive Responsible Growth. This includes our commitment to being an inclusive workplace, attracting and developing exceptional talent, supporting our teammates’ physical, emotional, and financial wellness, recognizing and rewarding performance, and how we make an impact in the communities we serve.

Bank of America is committed to an in-office culture with specific requirements for office-based attendance and which allows for an appropriate level of flexibility for our teammates and businesses based on role-specific considerations.

At Bank of America, you can build a successful career with opportunities to learn, grow, and make an impact. Join us!

Position Summary

This role reports directly to the Technology Executive overseeing Privileged Access Management governance and operations for the bank and will play a key role in advancing enterprise adoption of CyberArk and HashiCorp Vault by establishing scalable operating routines, adoption models, and delivery discipline across the organization. The individual must be highly driven and technically proficient, with the ability to lead strategic and execution-focused initiatives that onboard applications to privileged access and secrets management platforms while ensuring alignment with enterprise security standards.

The successful candidate will serve as a key liaison across security, application development, infrastructure, and API management teams, driving seamless integration of security capabilities into business services. This individual must be comfortable operating at both strategic and technical levels, influencing cross-functional teams, shaping adoption strategies, and establishing scalable execution practices that can support future growth of the function.

Key Responsibilities

Enterprise Adoption & Execution

• Drive adoption of CyberArk and HashiCorp Vault across application portfolios.
• Develop onboarding plans, roadmaps, and milestones to accelerate platform adoption.
• Coordinate cross-functional delivery across application, infrastructure, security, product, and platform teams.
• Track metrics, risks, dependencies, and blockers to ensure execution discipline and measurable progress.

Application Integration & Technical Enablement

• Partner with application teams to design and implement vault-aware solutions aligned to security standards.
• Provide technical guidance on secrets management, privileged access integration, credential modernization, and secure implementation practices.
• Review solution designs and integration patterns to ensure alignment with enterprise standards.
• Identify opportunities to simplify adoption through automation, scalable integrations, and repeatable practices.

Stakeholder Engagement & Influence

• Build trusted relationships with technology leaders, architects, developers, and business partners.
• Communicate status, risks, dependencies, and recommendations to senior stakeholders.
• Influence teams to align around enterprise security objectives, adoption priorities, and delivery timelines.

Required Qualifications

• 10+ years’ experience leading security, IAM, PAM, secrets management, or application security initiatives in a large enterprise environment.
• Strong understanding of CyberArk, HashiCorp Vault, privileged access management, secrets management, and application security principles.
• Ability to work directly with application development teams and understand modern application architectures, APIs, and integration patterns.
• Demonstrated ability to drive complex cross-functional initiatives from planning through execution.
• Technical depth to review solution designs, implementation approaches, and alignment with enterprise security standards.
• Strong organizational, communication, stakeholder management, and influence skills.
• Detail-oriented execution mindset with the ability to establish structure, governance, and delivery discipline.

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience with cloud-native architecture, DevSecOps, CI/CD pipelines, and automation.
• Knowledge of secure software development lifecycle practices.
• Familiarity with identity security, machine identities, and enterprise-scale authentication and authorization patterns.
• Experience operating in highly regulated or large enterprise environments.

Shift

1st shift (United States of America)

Hours Per Week

40

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