Privileged Access Management Expert | S3 | CISO | Milton Keynes

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Privileged Access Management Expert | S3 | CISO | Milton Keynes

Country: United Kingdom

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At Santander we’re driven by our purpose - to help people and businesses prosper.  We help our customers at the moments that matter most and champion businesses to help them to grow sustainably. That’s why we’re building a community to be a digital bank with a human touch and deliver an outstanding customer experience living our values of Simple, Personal and Fair. 

As a member of the IAM leadership team you will embody the Bank’s T.E.A.M.S behaviours and by acting as a role model who demonstrates high levels of accountability and a strong work ethic. You will be acting as a subject matter expert and mentor, you will bring out the best from your team by inspiring, educating and empowering each person to grow in an environment that welcomes diversity in all its forms.

This is a technical and strategic role that will support in the management and coverage of the PAM controls and work in conjunction with the wider Technology & Operations function.

The difference you’ll make:

• Focusing on security improvement through change and overseeing the smooth running of the operations for this core function
• Defining & delivering the strategic direction for the UK business, outlining key PAM initiatives to strengthen the UK control environment, aligned to regulatory and compliance requirements and to Group objectives
• Working on excellence for Privileged Access within the CISO function and developing subject matter expertise for all elements of external authentication.  Work in conjunction with our BISO and Product Security teams to ensure patterns and practices are consistently embedded into our infrastructure, applications and services
• Fostering relationships with Group and applicable business stakeholders to support their understanding of PAM control requirements
• Overseeing adoption and increasing coverage of PAM solution notably CyberArk across a diverse portfolio of applications and within public and private cloud environments
• Defining our technology and its adoption approach for Zero Trust services in collaboration with other technology and governance teams

What you’ll bring:

• Strong technical experience in cyber security in a large corporate environment, preferably in a regulated industry
• Knowledge of key IAM areas, including privileged access management (PAM), Identity, governance & administration (IGA), and identity as applied to public cloud services (AWS mainly)
• Full project lifecycle experience especially agile and Project Management using tools such as MS Project, JIRA, Confluence etc
• Leading, managing and developing colleagues, including supporting their wellbeing
• Experience with managing applications credentials, and Privileged User Access policy management, experience in performing Privileged Access reviews, compliance reporting, Access Control processes, and other associated tasks within Privileged User management
• Knowledge of tools, techniques, approaches, and processes of cybersecurity risk management in the identity domain

It would also be nice for you to have:

• Hands on experience of CyberArk years, from management and operations perspective
• IT Security Standards and frameworks (such as ISO, NIST, GDPR)
• Professional cloud security certifications (such as AWS or Azure)

What else you need to know:

We want our people to thrive at work and home, and we recognise that many people benefit from flexible arrangements. To enable us to deliver the best outcomes for our customers and to help each other develop we understand the importance of having the right balance of spending time together in an office while maintaining flexibility.
By working this way we can continue to create moments that matter for everyone. To support this, we offer site-based contracts with a hybrid working pattern and we’re happy to discuss specific requirements throughout the recruitment process.

This role is based in Milton Keynes and our current expectation is at least 2 days in an office every week.

If you’re interested in this role but with part time hours or a job-share we would still love to hear from you and discuss these.

Application process

If your application is successful a member of our recruitment team will be in touch. We will arrange a short call with you to learn more about you and what you are looking for from your next career move, as well as answer any questions you have about working in the Santander tech team. If both sides agree we will send your CV to the hiring manager to review.

If there’s anything we can do in the recruitment process to help you achieve your best, please let us know.

Inclusion

At Santander we’re creating a thriving workplace where all colleagues feel they belong and are supported to succeed.  We all help to make Santander a workplace that celebrates diversity and attracts, retains and develops the most talented and committed people through living our values of Simple, Personal, and Fair.

As well as a competitive salary, you’ll enjoy a benefits package that you can tailor to your needs.

• Competitive salary
• Eligible for a discretionary performance-related annual bonus
• We put 8% of salary into your pension, even if you don’t contribute yourself. We’ll pay in up to 12.5% of salary, if you contribute as well, and you can take some of our contribution in cash if you prefer.
• 30 days’ holiday plus bank holidays, which increases to 31 days after 5yrs service, with the option to purchase up to 5 contractual days per year
• £6,000 car allowance per year
• Company funded individual private medical insurance
• Voluntary healthcare benefits at discounted rates such as private medical insurance for your family, dental insurance, healthcare cash plan and health assessments
• Benefits supporting you and your family, such as death-in-service benefit, income protection, and voluntary life assurance and critical illness cover
• Share in Santander’s success by investing in our share plans 

Learn more about our benefits and family friendly policies

What to do next:-

If this sounds like a role you’re interested in, then please apply.

If there’s anything we can do in the recruitment process to help you achieve your best, get in touch. Whether it’s a copy of our application form in another format or additional assistance, we’re available through telephone, email, or face to face. You can contact us at or call 0870 414 9080.