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Identity & Access Management Information Security Consultant (IGA, Active Directory and Cloud exp. Required)

AT Merrill
Merrill

Identity & Access Management Information Security Consultant (IGA, Active Directory and Cloud exp. Required)

Charlotte, NC

Job Description:

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 an 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.

Bank of America is committed to an in-office culture with specific requirements for office-based attendance and which allows for an appropriate level of flexibility for our teammates and businesses based on role-specific considerations.

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Position Summary

Global Information Security (GIS) is responsible for protecting bank information systems, confidential and proprietary data, and customer information. GIS develops the bank's Information Security strategy and policy, manages the Information Security program, identifies and addresses vulnerabilities and operates a global security operations center that monitors, detects and responds to cybersecurity incidents.

Within GIS, Identity and Access Management (IAM) is a security discipline that enables the right individuals to access the right resources at the right times and in the right context. IAM addresses the mission-critical need to ensure appropriate access to the resources across increasingly heterogeneous technology environments, and to meet increasingly rigorous compliance requirements.

What you can expect in Identity & Access Management:

In today's highly connected world, managing and securing the identity of users is essential to the safety and success of our workforce. The Identity & Access Management (IAM) team works within Global Information Services (GIS) and in close participation with all other LOB teams as well as second and third line of defense partners. This role is highly visible and requires frequent interaction with senior management and key stakeholders.

Are you passionate about the latest IT technologies and thrive in a fast-paced international environment? In a typical day, you may work with other team members on the book of work, operational concerns, or risk items. You will help overcome obstacles and maintain good relationships with key stakeholders across the bank to ensure timely and effective delivery. We offer you the opportunity to collaborate with passionate competent people, experts in their field. We thrive on being challenged and everything we do is anchored in managing risk for the bank.

The Identity and Access Management (IAM) enablement services and data engineering function within Global Information Security is responsible for engineering, solutions architectures, capabilities development, deployment maintenance and governance administration and assurance.

In this role you will use past-experience and an analytical mindset to identify opportunities and drive improvements in the Access Management experience. The role is focused on the more technical aspects of IAM eco-system on-boarding and management, including the identification of integrations across business applications, technology infrastructure, platforms and IAM capabilities, such as account discovery, IGA, Cloud and PAM.

Responsibilities:

This role requires you to be result-oriented, business focused, and successful at interfacing and influencing across multiple organizational units, at various levels. Knowledge/experience/exposure with information security topics, including the design, development, testing, implementation or governance of information security practices and solutions, is extremely desirable for this role. You should be prepared to demonstrate your knowledge of access management/risk identification and mitigation/project management skills.

You will be responsible for interfacing with project managers and stakeholders to ensure IAM requirements are clearly defined, fully understood, and ultimately delivered, translating those needs into applied rules tests, and reports that can be applied to ensure sustainability. You will have or will develop a deep understanding of information repositories and the business context of the information they contain, as well as possessing the technical skills to build repeatable, robust processes to test these assumptions.

Enterprise position overview:

As an experienced professional, provide advice to client management about highly complex security issues. Assists in the review, development, testing and implementation of security plans, products and control techniques. Provides technical support to the management and staff in risk assessments and implementation of appropriate data security procedures and products. Identifies and escalates changes that will affect information security policy, standards and procedures. Works on complex problems where analysis of situations or data requires an in-depth evaluation of various factors. Exercises judgment within broadly defined practices and policies in selecting methods, techniques, and evaluation criterion for obtaining results. Work leadership may be provided by assigning work and resolving problems. 2-5 years of operational experience.

Required Skills:

  • Must be proficient in modern IAM technologies including IGA, Active Directory and Cloud
  • Excellent attention to detail and passionate about IAM
  • Strong organizational skills and be able to effectively prioritize multiple tasks
  • Must have experience participating in large or complex projects
  • Must be proficient in data management
  • Must be able to engage and leverage teams and business partners to efficiently deliver business solutions
  • Excellent verbal and written communications
  • Ambitious, self-starter
  • Must be able to identify, analyze and address problems to resolve issues whenever possible in way that minimizes negative impact and risk to the organization.
  • Must be pro-active and be able to drive direction of work that needs to be completed, ability to work independently on initiatives with little oversight. Motivated and willing to learn.
  • Must be comfortable in delivering messages across a wide spectrum of individuals having varying degrees of technical understanding

Desired Qualifications:

  • Ability to manage diverse projects impacting multiple roles and processes
  • Ability to create management level reporting using aggregated bank data
  • Candidate should be able to troubleshoot problem areas and identify data gaps and issues
  • Ability to identify and integrate modern tech opportunities into the IAM platform, including adoption of Gen AI and LLM

This job will be open and accepting applications for a minimum of seven days from the date it was posted.

Shift:
1st shift (United States of America)

Hours Per Week:
40

Pay Transparency details

US - CO - Denver - 1144 15th St - Denver Gis (CO9926), US - IL - Chicago - 540 W Madison St - Bank Of America Plaza (IL4540), US - NJ - Jersey City - 101 Hudson St - 101 Hudson (NJ2101)

Pay and benefits information

Pay range

$98,200.00 - $146,600.00 annualized salary, offers to be determined based on experience, education and skill set.

Discretionary incentive eligible

This role is eligible to participate in the annual discretionary plan. Employees are eligible for an annual discretionary award based on their overall individual performance results and behaviors, the performance and contributions of their line of business and/or group; and the overall success of the Company.

Benefits

This role is currently benefits eligible. We provide industry-leading benefits, access to paid time off, resources and support to our employees so they can make a genuine impact and contribute to the sustainable growth of our business and the communities we serve.

Client-provided location(s): Charlotte, NC, USA; Denver, CO, USA; Chicago, IL, USA; Jacksonville, FL, USA; Jersey City, NJ, USA; Addison, TX, USA
Job ID: Merrill-JR-25021614
Employment Type: Full Time