Abbott is a global healthcare leader that helps people live more fully at all stages of life. Our portfolio of life-changing technologies spans the spectrum of healthcare, with leading businesses and products in diagnostics, medical devices, nutritionals and branded generic medicines. Our 114,000 colleagues serve people in more than 160 countries.

Working at Abbott

At Abbott, you can do work that matters, grow, and learn, care for yourself and family, be your true self and live a full life. You’ll also have access to:

• Career development with an international company where you can grow the career you dream of .

• Free medical coverage for employees* via the Health Investment Plan (HIP) PPO

• An excellent retirement savings plan with high employer contribution

• Tuition reimbursement, the Freedom 2 Save student debt program and FreeU education benefit - an affordable and convenient path to getting a bachelor’s degree.

• A company recognized as a great place to work in dozens of countries around the world and named one of the most admired companies in the world by Fortune.

• A company that is recognized as one of the best big companies to work for as well as a best place to work for diversity, working mothers, female executives, and scientists.

The Opportunity:

This position works out of either our LAKE COUNTY, IL or ST. PAUL, MN locations in the Business Technology Services organization.

As a Sr. Privileged Access Management Architect, you will be the lead architect for Abbott’s existing Privileged Access Management program. This role will focus on expansion and evolution of existing Privileged Access Management solutions at Abbott that are prioritized by risk and success demonstrated by metrics.

This role will be ultimately responsible for the architecture of all PAM solutions implemented by the IAM PAM team and ensure integrations with other IAM pillars are aligned resulting in secure and fully operationalized use case implementations. This role will also be responsible for evaluating other PAM solutions when required and creating / maintaining a PAM Strategy and Roadmap for Abbott.

What You’ll Work On:

• Lead technical projects and teams to Architect, design, develop, and implement PAM solutions using BeyondTrust PAM products and potentially other products as required to meet security requirements

• Evolve current PAM Governance Strategy to align with enterprise changing needs

• Consult on security policies, standards, and guidelines, working to make security requirements clear and accessible and develop reference architectures and reference implementation patterns

• Drive elimination of technical debt within the existing PAM Identity platform as part of a continuous modernization and optimization approach

• Ensure successful transition of project deliverables to support / maintenance /operations teams

Required Qualifications:

• Bachelor’s Degree in Computer Science/Information Systems/ Engineering or related field or equivalent experience

• Advanced degree/ relevant professional certification preferred

• Minimum of 5+ years implementing enterprise IAM solutions or related /similar environments

• Minimum of 5+ years developing technical strategies, architectures, and roadmaps

Preferred Qualifications:

• Experience in Privileged Access Management & Secrets Management via industry PAM solution leaders such as Beyond Trust (preferred) or Cyberark

• Working and practical knowledge of account/password management, privileged session management, Secrets / Key management, and endpoint password change automation

• A strong background in technical design / architecture

• Excellent oral and written communication, presenting, meeting facilitation, negotiation, decision making, and problem-solving skills

• Experience working in an FDA-regulated business (e.g. validated software related to medical, pharmaceutical, or life sciences products) is preferred

• Strong ability to know your audience and structure communication and presentations to Abbott application owners, and senior leadership on aspects of complex technical scenarios while maintaining appropriate functional and technical level for the audience

• Experience working in matrix global organization with strategic sourcing partners where success requires broad orchestration of resources and services

• Support business and technology strategy and planning by leveraging knowledge in both technical and business areas

• Assess issues/problem encountered and recommend an appropriate solution

• Able to articulate vision and strategy for complex and innovative technical undertakings

• Able to deal with ambiguity and make expert judgments in situations where no precedent exists

• Any exposure and knowledge with following are preferred; PKI, HSMs, Active Directory, Windows, *NIX, Venafi, Entrust, HashiCorp, Beyond Trust, AWS/Azure Identity Management systems & Key Vaults

• Experience with other Identity solutions such as SailPoint IdentityIQ, Microsoft FIM/MIM, Azure Active Directory, ADLDS, etc.

Learn more about our health and wellness benefits, which provide the security to help you and your family live full lives:  www.abbottbenefits.com

Follow your career aspirations to Abbott for diverse opportunities with a company that can help you build your future and live your best life. Abbott is an Equal Opportunity Employer, committed to employee diversity.

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The base pay for this position is $111,300.00 – $222,700.00. In specific locations, the pay range may vary from the range posted.