IAM Technical Director; RACF​/Mainframe Security Expertise

Truist Financial

Location: Wilson, NC
Employment Type: Full Time
Date Posted: 12/17/2025
Job Categories: Banking, Computers, Software, Finance/Economics, Financial Services, Information Technology

We seek an experienced Technical Director with Mainframe Security expertise to oversee functions across our mainframes including identity management, certificate administration, encryption controls within our mainframe environment.

This role is critical in ensuring secure and compliant access requiring the successful candidate to understand the complete user access lifecycle, privileged access administration, and risk management. The manager will collaborate across IA, other cybersecurity, infrastructure, application development, risk and audit teams. This position may manage related projects from other Authentication/Authorization areas and a subset of the following sub-functions: request, provisioning, deprovisioning, normal access, privileged access, attestations, identity governance administration, identity management platforms, production support, authentication, authorization, and cloud.

• Align with IAM-wide priorities that define our direction based on business needs.
• Consistently align with Truist Vision, Mission and Values and demonstrate how IAM works.
• Set expectations, hold teams accountable, check‑in and provide feedback (Accountability).
• Take a Truist-wide approach to owning and resolving challenges (Remove IAM Blinders).
• Coach, performance manage, develop and reward top performers/visibility (Strengthen Team).
• Establish and cascade a predictable schedule for team engagement (Management System).
• Consistently seek ways to improve (Continuous Improvement).
• Manage a team of 5 to 10 direct reports and contract workers overseeing defined structured process tasks.
• Perform hiring, coaching, terminations, disciplinary action, and performance reviews.
• Oversee strategic and operational plans in support of business objectives; develop cross‑departmental business cases to solve problems by making technical and financial tradeoffs.
• Apply a balance of 40% technical and 60% functional knowledge to deliver quality results.
• Design and implement the identity management and access control strategy on time and within budget.
• Create formal Services Level Agreements (SLAs).
• Develop workforce strategy blending ~30% onshore and ~70% offshore resources.
• Improve user experience and reduce turnover of critical resources.
• Proactively engage with stakeholders to promote adoption of solutions and manage expectations.

• Bachelors degree or equivalent.
• 15 years technical experience in identity and access management control functions.
• 10 years experience managing a team.
• 10 years experience in operational planning and execution.
• 10 years experience managing simple and structured work.
• 10 years experience managing complex and unstructured work.
• 10 years experience leading diverse teams (teammates, contract workers, onshore, offshore, managed services).
• 5 years experience with product knowledge and processes for specific IAM areas (e.g., Active Directory, RACF, Idaptive, Cyber Ark, PRIVA, Oracle OIM, Persistent Ignite).
• 10 years basic functional knowledge of broader IAM capability tools and processes.
• 10 years intermediate level soft skills and interpersonal communications.
• 10 years technical experience in a top 10 US bank.
• 10 years collaboration with infrastructure, application development, application support, business unit risk management, technology risk, audit and external auditors.
• 10 years collaboration with peer functions in corporate cybersecurity.
• 10 years experience managing remediation of regulatory matters and internal findings.
• 10 years experience in strategic planning and applying industry best practices (NIST, FFIEC).

• Masters degree.
• Experience designing IAM technical solutions.
• Hands‑on experience managing user access lifecycle, privilege management, and role‑based access control (RBAC).
• Proficiency in certificate management, PKI, SSL/TLS, and encryption technologies.
• Understanding of regulatory frameworks for financial…