Identity and Access Management; IAM) Sr. Specialist; Cloud Security

Job Description:

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.

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Bank of America is committed to an in-office culture that supports collaboration, engagement, and career development. Our approach includes clear in-office expectations, while providing an appropriate level of flexibility based on role-specific responsibilities and business needs.

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

Global Information Security (GIS) is responsible for protecting bank information systems, confidential and proprietary data, and customer information. GIS develops the bank's Information Security strategy and policy, manages the Information Security program, identifies and addresses vulnerabilities and operates a global security operations center that monitors, detects and responds to cybersecurity incidents. Within GIS, Identity and Access Management (IAM) is a security discipline that enables the right individuals to access the right resources at the right times and in the right context.

IAM addresses the mission-critical need to ensure appropriate access to the resources across increasingly heterogeneous technology environments, and to meet increasingly rigorous compliance requirements.

Reporting to the Access Controls & Segregation of Duties Leader, this role is responsible for defining, operationalizing, and modernizing enterprise access control capabilities across traditional and cloud-native environments. The role will drive the evolution of role-based, attribute-based, policy-based, and segregation of duties access control models while establishing sustainable cloud entitlement management practices that reduce risk, improve visibility, and simplify access administration across the enterprise.

The role will partner closely with Architecture, Engineering, Cloud Security, IAM Service Catalogue, and Line of Business stakeholders to establish modern access models that support the Bank's continued cloud transformation.

• Modernize the segregation of duties design, implementation, controls, and oversight framework and practices for sustainable risk reduction.
• Modernize enterprise access control capabilities through automation, AI-assisted analysis, workflow optimization, and data-driven insights.
• Improve role quality, entitlement quality, access profiling, and access model effectiveness across technology platforms.
• Drive adoption of RBAC, ABAC, PBAC, and SOD controls within enterprise and cloud environments to reduce entitlement sprawl and excessive permissions.
• Drive transformation initiatives focused on cloud entitlement visibility, access intelligence, permission analytics, and access lifecycle efficiencies.
• Establish enterprise standards for cloud role engineering, entitlement taxonomy, permission management, and cloud access model design.
• Develop sustainable approaches for governing cloud permissions, cloud identities, and cloud resource access at scale.
• Lead the strategy and execution of cloud access control capabilities across AWS, Azure, GCP, SaaS platforms, and emerging cloud-native technologies.
• Act as a senior advisor on cloud access controls, entitlement strategy, and access modeling.
• Operate through ambiguity, break down complex problems, and create structure where processes or accountabilities are unclear.
• Identify opportunities to reduce manual activities and simplify operational processes while strengthening risk mitigation.
• Partner across IAM, Security, Technology, Product, and Line of Business teams to drive adoption of modern access control frameworks.
• Lead complex initiatives involving cloud permissions, entitlement management, role engineering, and access risk reduction.
• Translate technical access control concepts into actionable business outcomes for senior leadership.

• 10+ years of IAM, Cybersecurity,
  Cloud Security
  , or Access Management experience.
• Experience…