Identity, Authentication, Authorization & Governance Senior Analyst

Job Description:

Job Title: Identity, Authentication, Authorization & Governance Senior Analyst

Corporate Title:  SVP

Location:  Dublin or Chester

Company Overview:

At Bank of America, we are guided by a common purpose to help make financial lives better through the power of every connection.  We do this by driving Responsible Growth and delivering for our clients, teammates, communities and shareholders every day.

Being a Great Place to Work is core to how we drive Responsible Growth.  This includes our commitment to being a diverse and inclusive workplace, attracting and developing exceptional talent, supporting our teammates’ physical, emotional, and financial wellness, recognizing and rewarding performance, and how we make an impact in the communities we serve.

At Bank of America, you can build a successful career with opportunities to learn, grow, and make an impact.  Join us!

Location Overview:

Dublin

Overlooking the spectacular Iveagh Gardens with access to all amenities in the beating heart of central Dublin is our Park Place office. Travel options include the LUAS, Dublin Bus networks as well as the Dublin Bikes station, positioned just outside our front doors. As part of our commitment to supporting staff travel to and from work in the most sustainable way possible, we also provide tax saver tickets as part of our award-winning benefits package which means getting to work has never been easier.

Chester

Find us in the city of Chester, a destination renowned for its culture, history, and beauty. Working at Bank of America Chester offers a far-reaching global career for a world-renowned organisation, whilst being ideally situated against the backdrop of the rolling North Wales hills and the banks of the serene River Dee.

Role Description:

The IAM Identity, Authentication, Authorization & Governance Senior Analyst sits within Global Information Security (GIS) and plays a highly visible role in shaping how human, machine, and service identities are governed across the enterprise. This role offers the opportunity to influence strategic security priorities, partner with senior stakeholders across technology, risk, compliance, and audit, and help strengthen how authentication and authorization controls evolve to support cloud and digital growth. It is an excellent opportunity for an internal candidate looking to broaden their impact, build enterprise-wide relationships, and contribute to a critical and evolving security agenda.

Responsibilities:

IAM Strategy, Architecture & API Access Controls

• Shape IAM business requirements for enterprise authentication and authorization, helping to guide future direction across the organisation.
• Ensure AI systems, agents, and services comply with IAM standards, internal policies, and applicable regulatory and audit requirements.
• Oversee identity and access controls across private cloud, SaaS, and hybrid environments.
• Guide the adoption of modern access models such as zero trust, conditional access, and least privilege.
• Establish and govern API authentication and authorization standards across the enterprise.
• Ensure APIs are protected using consistent, secure identity patterns (token‑based access, service authentication, least privilege).
• Partner closely with application, platform, and integration teams to embed IAM controls into API design and development lifecycles.
• Oversee risk management, metrics, and reporting related to API access and service identities.

Risk Management, Governance & Compliance

• Partner with governance teams to ensure IAM requirements are defined, measured, reported, and enforced.
• Ensure compliance with internal policies and external regulatory and audit requirements.
• Provide executive‑level reporting on identity risks, control gaps, and remediation progress.
• Support audit engagements, issue remediation, and sustainable control design.

Collaboration & Influence

• Build partnerships across GIS, Core Technology, Application Development, Risk, Compliance, Audit, and Third‑Party Management.
• Influence solution design and drive adoption through credibility, collaboration, and strong stakeholder engagement.
• Clearly communicate risks, decisions, and tradeoffs to both technical and non‑technical audiences.
• Drive alignment across teams operating at different speeds and maturity levels.

What we are looking for:

• Experience in identity and access management within large, complex organisations, ideally in financial services or similarly regulated environments.

• Demonstrated success leading or influencing enterprise‑scale IAM programs.
• Deep expertise in authentication and authorization technologies and standards, including:
• OAuth 2.0, OpenID Connect, SAML, WS‑Federation
• LDAP, Kerberos, RADIUS
• Experience with IAM platforms such as Active Directory, Entra ID (Azure AD), Ping, or equivalent.
• Experience supporting or governing identity and access in cloud environments.
• Deep understanding of API security and identity patterns, including service‑to‑service access and token‑based authentication.
• Understanding of AI identity and access patterns, API authentication, AI/ML authorisation models, and NIST‑aligned governance.
• Experience aligning IAM controls with application and platform engineering teams.
• Understanding of identity risk within regulated environments.
• Familiarity with frameworks and regulations such as NIST, ISO, FFIEC, SOX, and SOC.
• Proven ability to interpret policy and regulatory requirements and translate them into practical controls.

Skills that will help:

• Proven ability to brief and influence senior leaders.
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills, including the ability to deliver executive‑level presentations.
• Analytical, decisive, and comfortable operating in ambiguous and evolving environments.
• Skilled at prioritizing competing demands and driving outcomes.

Benefits of working at Bank of America:

Ireland

• Private healthcare for you and your family plus an annual health screen to help you manage your physical wellness with the option to purchase a screen for your partner

• Competitive pension plan, life assurance and group income protection cover if you become unable to work as a result of a disability or health reasons

• 20 days of back-up childcare and 20 days of back-up adult care per annum

• The ability to change your core benefits as well as the option of selecting a variety of flexible benefits to suit your personal circumstances including access to a wellbeing account, travel insurance, critical illness etc.

• Access to an Employee Assistance Program for confidential support and help for everyday matters

• Access to free counselling through the Employee Assistance Program and virtual GP services through our private health care plan

• Ability to donate to charities of your choice and the bank will match your contribution

• Opportunity to access our Arts & Culture corporate membership program and receive discounted entry to some of Ireland’s most iconic cultural institutions and exhibitions.

• Opportunity to give back to your community, develop new skills and work with new groups of people by volunteering in your local community.

UK

• At Bank of America, we strive to prioritise employees’ health and wellbeing – it’s what makes us a Great Place to Work.
• Private healthcare for you and your family plus an annual health screen to help you manage your physical wellness with the option to purchase a screen for your partner.
• Competitive pension plan, life assurance and group income protection cover if you become unable to work as a result of a disability or health reasons.
• We offer 26-weeks paid maternity leave, 16-weeks paid paternity leave and inclusive family leave arrangements for working parents and carers including 20 days of back-up childcare including access to school holiday clubs and 20 days of back-up adult care per annum.
• 20 days of back-up childcare including access to school holiday clubs and 20 days of back-up adult care per annum.
• The ability to change your core benefits as well as the option of selecting a variety of flexible benefits to suit your personal circumstances including access to a wellbeing account, travel insurance, critical illness, cycle to work etc.
• Access to free counselling through the Employee Assistance Program and virtual GP services through our private health care plan.
• Access to an Employee Assistance Program for confidential support and help for everyday matters.
• Ability to donate to charities of your choice directly through payroll and the bank will match your contribution.
• Opportunity to access our Arts & Culture corporate membership program and receive discounted entry to some of the UK’s most iconic cultural institutions and exhibitions.
• Opportunity to give back to your community, develop new skills and work with new groups of people by volunteering in your local community.

Bank of America:

Good conduct and sound judgment is crucial to our long term success. It’s important that all employees in the organisation understand the expected standards of conduct and how we manage conduct risk. Individual accountability and an ownership mind-set are the cornerstones of our Code of Conduct and are at the heart of managing risk well.

We are an equal opportunities employer and ensure that no applicant is subject to less favourable treatment on the grounds of gender, gender identity or gender reassignment, marital or civil partner status, race, religion or belief, colour, nationality, ethnic or national origins, membership of the Traveller community, age, sexual orientation, pregnancy or maternity, civil status,  socio-economic background, family status or physical or mental disability. The Bank selects candidates for interview based on their skills, qualifications and experience.

We strive to ensure that our recruitment processes are accessible for all candidates and encourage any candidates to tell us about any adjustment requirements.