CyberArk Architect

3+ months rolling contract

Newbury, UK

About the role

We are seeking a CyberArk Architect to lead solution design for a large-scale, TSA-regulated Privileged Access Management (PAM) migration and merger consolidation programme. This is a hands-on architecture role spanning vault migration design, identity federation, and application onboarding strategy for an estate spanning thousands of accounts and 250+ dependent applications, delivered against a fixed regulatory deadline.

Key responsibilities

Migration & vault architecture

• Design the end-to-end migration architecture from CyberArk v12.2 to v14.2, covering entity extraction (REST API primary, PACLI fallback), transformation, reconciliation, and staged loading into the target vault.
• Define the staged-ingestion model: disabled import → CPM soft-verification → dual-run mirroring → forced rotation at cutover — ensuring no credential is exposed to a script or human during migration.
• Own name-collision resolution, platform normalisation, and policy reconciliation rules between source and target environments.
• Produce migration runbooks, RAID logs, and effort-sizing models across Safes, Accounts, Platforms, and Policies.

Application & credential provider (CP/CCP) strategy

• Lead discovery to segment the 250+ dependent applications by integration pattern (CP agent, CCP centralised, Conjur, direct SSO) — the primary driver of onboarding sequencing and timeline risk.
• Design the CP/CCP re-onboarding approach, including AppID re-provisioning, certificate/mTLS re-issuance, and phased cutover waves.
• Define rollback and dual-run strategy per wave, including the read-only fallback window on the source vault.

Identity federation & MFA

• Design PVWA federation to Entra ID via SAML/OIDC, including claims mapping from Entra groups to CyberArk Vault Users and Safe membership.
• Architect the RSA SecurID → Entra MFA migration as a re-enrolment exercise, covering Conditional Access policy design and non-web/legacy client bridging (PrivateArk, PACLI, RADIUS-dependent flows).
• Ensure High Side / Low Side segregation is preserved across all federation and migration data flows, with no entitlement detail crossing the DMZ boundary.

Governance, compliance & stakeholder leadership

• Own architecture decisions and trade-offs; present designs to client security, compliance, and PAM leadership for sign-off.
• Ensure all migration and access-control designs produce audit evidence sufficient for TSA compliance reporting.
• Evaluate and position complementary tooling (e.g. Hydden for continuous identity discovery) against native CyberArk capability.
• Define acceptance criteria and go/no-go gates for pilot and production wave sign-off.
• Mentor and provide technical direction to CyberArk Senior Engineers delivering the build.

Required experience & skills

• 10+ years in Identity and Access Management, with 5+ years specifically in CyberArk PAM architecture and design.
• Deep hands-on knowledge of CyberArk EPV, PVWA, CPM, PSM, AAM/CCP, and Vault architecture across on-prem and Privilege Cloud deployments.
• Proven experience leading a CyberArk version migration (v10/v11/v12 → v13/v14) at enterprise scale.
• Strong working knowledge of SAML 2.0 and OIDC federation design, including experience integrating CyberArk PVWA with an enterprise IdP (Entra ID, Okta, or equivalent).
• Experience with credential provider architectures (CP, CCP) and application onboarding at scale (100+ application estates).
• Familiarity with MFA migration projects (e.g. RSA SecurID to a cloud MFA/Conditional Access model).
• Experience operating in regulated environments (financial services, telecom, or government) with formal change control and audit evidence requirements.
• Strong client-facing communication skills; able to present architecture to both technical and executive stakeholders.