Hybrid Identity & Access Management, IAM Governance Executive

at Bank of America

• Job title: Identity & Access Management, IAM Governance Executive
• Job type: Full Time
• Experience level: Senior, Lead
• Salary: $240,000 - $350,000 per year
• Degree requirement: No Education Requirement
• Location requirements: Hybrid, Boston, United States

About the role

• Senior VP of IAM Governance directing identity access strategy for Bank of America. Overseeing global IAM governance and ensuring regulatory alignment and risk management.

Responsibilities

• The Senior Vice President executive of Identity & Access Management (IAM) Governance serves as the enterprise authority for identity governance strategy, policy, and risk management within Global Information Security.
• This leader defines and drives the IAM governance vision across the bank, ensuring that identity controls, technologies, and processes align with globally recognized frameworks, regulatory expectations, and the bank’s strategic objectives.
• The role oversees enterprise-wide, global, IAM governance, including policy, standards, lifecycle controls, access certifications, privileged access governance, authentication, and identity risk metrics, anchored to leading industry standards.
• As the global IAM Governance leader, you will shape the long-term direction of the IAM technology ecosystem, including Identity Governance & Administration (IGA), federation/SSO/MFA, privileged access management (PAM), secrets vaulting, and directory services, and ensure robust auditability, regulatory alignment, and measurable risk reduction across all identity domains.

Requirements

• 10+ years of leadership experience in IAM, information security governance, risk management, or related executive technology functions within large-scale, regulated enterprises, aligned with senior and executive-level identity roles.
• Proven experience leading large global teams, managing executive-level governance forums, and directing complex IAM transformation initiatives.
• Demonstrated success overseeing and continually improving IGA, federation, privileged access, secrets management, and identity lifecycle modernization programs across hybrid environments.
• Experience preparing for and responding to regulatory exams and internal/external audits, ensuring alignment to FFIEC requirements and NIST/ISO frameworks.
• Track record driving adoption of modern authentication and identity proofing approaches aligned with NIST SP 800‑63‑4.
• Ability to reduce privileged access risk through JIT/ZSP and PAM modernization initiatives in alignment with IAM policy requirements.
• Professional certifications preferred: CISSP, CISM, CISA, CGEIT, and IAM platform-specific certifications.

Benefits

• This role is currently benefits eligible.
• We provide industry-leading benefits, access to paid time off, resources and support to our employees so they can make a genuine impact and contribute to the sustainable growth of our business and the communities we serve.