Identity, Authentication, Authorization & Governance Senior Analyst

Job Description

Job Title:

Identity, Authentication, Authorization & Governance Senior Analyst

Corporate

Title:

Up to SVP

Location:

Chester or Dublin

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.

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.

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.

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.

• 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 life cycles.
• Oversee risk management, metrics, and reporting related to API access and service identities.

• 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.

• 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…