AVP, IAM Platform Onboarding and Administration

AVP, IAM Platform Application Onboarding and Administration Job Description

Posted Monday, December 22, 2025 at 8:00 AM

People Drive Our Success

Are you enthusiastic, highly motivated, and have a strong work ethic? If yes, come join our team! At Cathay Bank – we strive to provide a caring culture that supports your aspirations and success. We believe people are our most valuable asset and we proudly foster growth and development empowering you to achieve your professional goals. We have thrived for 60 years and persevered through many economic cycles due to our team members’ drive and optimism.

Together we can make a difference in the financial future of our communities.

The AVP, IAM Platform Application Onboarding and Administration is responsible for the day to day technical and operational management of Cathay Bank’s Identity Governance and Administration (IGA) and supporting its technical integration and effectiveness towards the automation identity lifecycle management and access reviews / attestations against the bank’s authoritative data source(s), the enterprise network / directory environment and applications for central access management control and administration.

This role is responsible for ensuring our IGA technical platform satisfies our security policy ensuring automated and auditable compliance on all relevant IAM controls: access provisioning / reviews / attestations / revocations, segregation of duties, risk tiering and profiling, etc.

ESSENTIAL FUNCTIONS

• Manage and monitor Cathay Bank’s IGA platform’s availability, capacity, changes, performance, and compliance to our IAM policy and security program and its enforcement on the management of identity lifecycle and application/asset access management.
• Drive and coordinate all relevant interactions to achieve the connected-technical interfacing of systems and applications to Cathay Bank’s relevant IAM platforms and maximize the automated enforcement of IAM processes and controls leading to self-sustainable compliance.
• Advocate and promote benefits, efficacies and efficiencies gained by integrating systems / applications to Cathay Bank’s IAM platforms, policy and security program enforcing the management of identity lifecycle and application/asset access management.
• Drive the scheduling, implementation, and execution of access reviews / attestation campaigns and their effectiveness and proactively verify, amend, and remediate gaps in process to both general and individual campaigns supporting and providing solid auditable traceability that confirms effective end-to-end processes and controls are in place.
• Support, collaborate and provide relevant regulatory proof of compliance to Internal / External audit efforts.
• Collaborate with Managed Service Providers (MSP) towards the delivery of expert IAM services (application onboarding, connector development, platform evolution) guaranteeing satisfaction of service level agreements and overall continuous improvement.
• Provide and coordinate timely engineering support and guidance to our Digital Identity Administration and extended IAM / Security and overall IT Application Management teams to ensure timely incident and problem resolution, effective platform capacity management, and ongoing protocol(s) support and continuous environment integration.
• Ensure efficient handing of logs and audit trails supporting compliance verification, event evidencing, and overall security operations efforts.
• Support the development of information security processes and procedures as they apply to Bank informational assets, networks, and equipment.
• Drive performance and compliance data / metrics analysis related to the bank’s identity and access management program, policy, and standards providing periodic operational / compliance / risk KPIs associated to overall platform performance and IAM compliance baseline.
• Participate in efforts to remediate audit and regulatory findings and recommendations related to identity and access management.

QUALIFICATIONS

Education:

• Bachelor’s degree in information technology engineering or related degree.
• Proven familiarity (certification preferred) with IT Security, Risk Management and…