Senior PAM Engineer

• Help protect over 5 million Australians, making a real difference in their lives during their most challenging times.
• Work with experienced and skilled colleagues who support and inspire one another to achieve collective success
• Take advantage of well-being initiatives designed to support your mental and physical health, ensuring a balanced lifestyle

Why Join Us?

Welcome to TAL. As a leading life insurer, we’ve been protecting Australians for over 150 years. Backed by Daiichi Life, we're driven by big ambitions and empower to create better products and services.

Together with our Partners, we’re helping millions of Australians live a life filled with choices, options, and freedoms. See the direct impact you make delivering support and financial security with care and expertise. Grow beyond expectations with diverse roles, global connections, and exclusive learning opportunities.

Work with passionate, bright and capable colleagues. Feel inspired by supportive leaders. Collaborate with heart, where flexibility, wellbeing and inclusivity is valued. Together, we're reimagining insurance.

So, bring a curious mind and an ambition to help us become the progressive, digitally enabled leading insurer.

TAL’s Senior Identity Analyst helps protect what matters most by strengthening how our people access the systems and information they need—securely and seamlessly. Sitting within Cyber’s Identity & Access Management team, this role brings clarity to complex identity and privileged access challenges, working across Technology and with trusted partners to keep our controls resilient as the business evolves. It’s meaningful work with real impact: enabling safer, smoother experiences for colleagues and customers, and supporting TAL’s broader mission to build confidence and safeguard futures.

In this role you will:

• Deliver and lead the roll-out of PAM capabilities across the organization in alignment with the Roadmap and Cyber Security Strategy.
• Implement, configure and troubleshoot PAM platforms such as CyberArk and Microsoft PIM
• Deliver privileged access capabilities including credential vaulting, session management and elevation workflows
• Integrate PAM platforms with identity sources and enterprise systems using connectors, APIs and scripting
• Participate in design reviews to ensure alignment with architecture, security and compliance requirements
• Deep knowledge of PAM best practices, IAM standards, and how governance and compliance tie directly back to CyberArk capabilities.
• Build collaborative partnerships with team members, other colleagues, and external contacts (as and when required).

• Bachelor’s degree in IT, Computer Science, Cybersecurity or related field (or equivalent practical experience). Professional certifications such as CISM, CRISC, or CISSP are advantageous but not required.
• At least 5 years of relevant experience in Identity and Access Management, Cybersecurity, or a related area, with demonstrable involvement in supporting and implementing identity capabilities.
• Hands-on CyberArk Experience: Safe management, account onboarding, PSM sessions, CPM password rotation, CCP and PVWA administration, Secure Cloud Administration
• Experience with Entra ID Conditional Access, Identity Governance, PIM/PAM, FIDO2 and Zero Trust
• PKI infrastructure and Certificate management, Sailpoint IdentityIQ, Okta experience is nice to have but not mandatory
• PowerShell scripting for identity automation and reporting
• Basic understanding of Python, Java, or similar languages for API integration

TAL is one of Australia’s leading life insurers, committed to inclusion, and supporting the career growth of our diverse workforce. We’re proud to be:

• An Inclusive Employer – Recognised as Employer of Choice for Gender Equality by the Workplace Gender Equality Agency and Bronze Tier Status within the Australian Workplace Equality Index
• Diversity Champions – Member of Diversity Council Australia, Australian Disability Network, Pride in Diversity and Champions of Change
• Reconciliation Advocates – Read our Innovate Reconciliation Action Plan.
• We welcome applications from people with diverse experiences, perspectives and backgrounds including Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people, caregivers, individuals living with disabilities, people from culturally diverse backgrounds and the LGBTIQ+ community.
• Need adjustments during the recruitment process? Let our team know by getting in touch with us here.—we’re here to support you.

You’re always accountable for your actions. You never give up. You strive to find the best outcomes for customers and partners. And you value working together to find the best solutions for problems. 

As part of the recruitment process, there are several checks which may be conducted to demonstrate your eligibility for a role at TAL including Criminal History, Bankruptcy, Entitlement to Work, Regulatory and Reference Checks.

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Everyone at TAL has a responsibility to do the right thing and is accountable for the way they conduct themselves. Our expectations are that you follow the principles set out in our Code of Conduct when you come to work every day. Risk management is everyone’s responsibility.

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