Identity, Authentication, Authorization & Governance Senior Analyst

Bank of America; Dublin; On-site; EUR 90,000 - 130,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Private healthcare

Pension & life cover

Income protection

Job summary

Bank of America is seeking an IAM Senior Analyst to shape authentication and authorization strategy across private cloud, SaaS, and hybrid environments. You will guide API access controls, implement modern access models, and drive risk governance with senior stakeholders to support cloud and digital growth.

This role offers collaboration across GIS, risk, compliance, audit, and engineering, with opportunities to influence enterprise security and governance while advancing your career within a

Qualifications

• Experience in identity and access management within large, regulated environments.
• Proven ability to lead or influence enterprise IAM programs.
• Strong knowledge of authentication and authorization technologies and standards.

Responsibilities

• Shape IAM requirements for enterprise authentication and authorization.
• Govern API authentication and authorization standards.
• Oversee risk, governance, and compliance related to IAM controls.

Skills

IAM experience

Enterprise IAM programs

OAuth 2.0/OpenID Connect/SAML/WS-Feder

LDAP/Kerberos/RADIUS

AD/Entra ID/Ping

Cloud IAM governance

API security and identity patterns

AI identity patterns

Policy regulatory understanding

Job description

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.

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. Join us!

Location Overview

Chester

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.

Dublin

Central Park

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.

Role Description

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.

IAM Strategy, Architecture & API Access Controls

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

Risk Management, Governance & Compliance

• 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.

Collaboration & Influence

• 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 technical and non-technical audiences.
• Drive alignment across teams operating at different speeds and maturity levels.

What we are looking for

• Experience in identity and access management within large, complex organisations, ideally in financial services or similarly regulated environments.
• Demonstrated success leading or influencing enterprise-scale IAM programs.
• Deep expertise in authentication and authorization technologies and standards, including:
• OAuth 2.0, OpenID Connect, SAML, WS-Federation
• LDAP, Kerberos, RADIUS
• Experience with IAM platforms such as Active Directory, Entra ID (Azure AD), Ping, or equivalent.
• Experience supporting or governing identity and access in cloud environments.
• Deep understanding of API security and identity patterns, including service-to-service access and token-based authentication.
• Understanding of AI identity and access patterns, API authentication, AI/ML authorisation models, and NIST-aligned governance.
• Experience aligning IAM controls with application and platform engineering teams.
• Understanding of identity risk within regulated environments.
• Familiarity with frameworks and regulations such as NIST, ISO, FFIEC, SOX, and SOC.
• Proven ability to interpret policy and regulatory requirements and translate them into practical controls.

Skills that will help

• Proven ability to brief and influence senior leaders.
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills, including the ability to deliver executive-level presentations.
• Analytical, decisive, and comfortable operating in ambiguous and evolving environments.
• Skilled at prioritizing competing demands and driving outcomes.

Benefits of working at Bank of America

Ireland

• Private healthcare for you and your family plus an annual health screen to help you manage your physical wellness with the option to purchase a screen for your partner
• Competitive pension plan, life assurance and group income protection cover if you become unable to work as a