Senior PAM Solution Lead — Cloud, Vault & Zero Trust

McKesson’s Corporate; Irving (TX); On-site; USD 141,000 - 235,000; Full time

Job summary

McKesson is seeking a Solution Lead, PAM to advance and scale enterprise privileged access management capabilities.

This role will serve as the technical lead for the PAM service area, responsible for shaping PAM strategy, owning solution architecture and design patterns, identifying capability gaps, and helping drive practical solutions that protect privileged accounts, credentials, secrets, machine identities, and cloud privileges across hybrid environments.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree or equivalent in a related field.
• 10+ years of cybersecurity or security engineering experience.
• Hands-on with enterprise PAM platforms.

Responsibilities

• Lead design, implementation, and improvement of enterprise PAM capabilities across cloud and on-premises environments.
• Shape and evolve the PAM roadmap by identifying capability gaps, prioritizing initiatives, and driving strategic security outcomes.
• Partner with application teams and business stakeholders to understand requirements, shape practical and supportable PAM solutions, and ensure outcomes are delivered.
• Own solution architecture and lead implementation of controls for privileged accounts, credential vaulting, secrets management, session monitoring, service accounts, and machine identities.
• Serve as an escalation point for PAM operational issues and incidents, helping assess impact, guide resolution, and identify follow-up actions to reduce recurrence.
• Develop standards, automation, and operational processes that improve PAM adoption, supportability, scalability, and alignment with Zero Trust principles.
• Evaluate emerging technologies, industry trends, and threats related to privileged access, secrets management, cloud privilege management, and privileged identity security.
• Provide technical leadership, mentoring, and guidance across cybersecurity engineering initiatives.

Skills

Cybersecurity

PAM

IAM security

Security engineering

Leadership

Communication

Education

Bachelor's degree or equivalent

Master’s degree preferred

Tools

CyberArk

Delinea

BeyondTrust

HashiCorp Vault

Azure

AWS

GCP

Job description

McKesson is seeking a Solution Lead, PAM to advance and scale enterprise privileged access management capabilities.

This role will serve as the technical lead for the PAM service area, responsible for shaping PAM strategy, owning solution architecture and design patterns, identifying capability gaps, and helping drive practical solutions that protect privileged accounts, credentials, secrets, machine identities, and cloud privileges across hybrid environments.