AVP, IT Identity Governance Engineer

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The bank is committed to its local communities by supporting organizations that provide financial literacy and job training, small business support, affordable housing, and more.

The AVP, Identity Governance Engineer is a senior technical individual contributor within the IT Governance Identity Governance team. This role serves as the primary technical authority responsible for translating identity governance requirements into scalable technical designs, configurations, and automations implemented in partnership with the team that administers the Identity Governance & Administration (IGA) platform. The position acts as the technical bridge between governance intent and platform execution, ensuring that access reviews, identity data integrations, and governance controls are technically sound, operationally scalable, and audit‑ready.

The role complements governance leadership by owning technical enablement rather than program ownership or people management.

• Act as the primary technical liaison between IT Governance and the team administering the IGA platform.
• Translate governance policies, standards, and control requirements into clear technical design guidance and configuration requirements.
• Partner with IGA Engineering on the technical design and configuration of:
  • Access review campaigns, including scope, reviewer logic, escalation paths, and remediation workflows.
  • Identity and account correlation rules to ensure complete and accurate certification populations.
  • Deprovisioning and closed‑loop revocation mechanisms that provide positive confirmation of access removal.
• Review and provide technical governance sign‑off for platform configuration changes that impact control effectiveness, scalability, or auditability.

• Convert governance requirements into repeatable, scalable technical patterns for access reviews, role reviews, and entitlement certifications.
• Define and support standardized configuration templates and design patterns that enable rapid onboarding of new applications into governance scope.
• Enable technical aspects of governance operating models, including:
  • Standardized access request and access review workflows.
  • Role and entitlement catalog consistency and synchronization across systems.
  • Metrics and reporting instrumentation that supports visibility into access coverage and control effectiveness.
• Support rapid application onboarding by defining technical integration requirements based on source system architecture, including directory‑based, file‑based, API‑based, and database‑based integrations.

• Ensure identity governance controls are auditable by design, with consistent evidence generation, traceability, and reproducibility.
• Provide technical explanations of control design, configuration, and automation to support internal and external audits.
• Partner with governance leadership and compliance teams to address audit findings that require technical remediation.
• Design and enable automation to reduce common audit deficiencies related to manual processes, incomplete evidence, and delayed revocations.

• Serve as the governance technical subject matter expert for Microsoft Entra and related Microsoft identity platforms.
• Understand and advise on hybrid identity architectures and how synced and non‑synced accounts affect governance coverage.
• Partner with IGA Engineering on technical enablement leveraging Microsoft…