Director - Identity & Access Management

Texas Capital Bank•Richardson, TX

About The Position

The IAM Director leads Texas Capital’s identity and access management strategy, governance, and execution across identity lifecycle management, access controls, authentication, access certifications, and audit reporting. The role establishes cross-functional ownership among HR, IT, security, legal/compliance, and business and data owners through an IAM governance committee and RACI model, treating IAM as a shared business control. The Director defines IAM policies and standards and drives automation, repeatable integration patterns, and measurable improvements in least privilege, segregation-of-duties alignment, monitoring, and audit readiness. The position provides IAM architecture direction, oversees IAM and IGA capabilities, and ensures platforms are securely configured and maintained in alignment with policy. It clarifies responsibilities between IT and security and defines success measures for security, employee experience, automation, and audit performance. The position may also be assigned reasonably related additional duties consistent with departmental policy.

Requirements

Bachelor’s degree in Information Security, Information Technology, Computer Science, Engineering, or a related field.
At least 10 years of experience in an appropriate domain.
Advanced knowledge of a specialized discipline, including security and control frameworks such as COBIT, COSO, ITIL, FFIEC, and NIST.
Proven leadership running an IAM program with cross-functional governance and clear role and accountability models, such as RACI.
Experience across core IAM domains, including authentication (SSO/MFA), authorization and access controls, provisioning and deprovisioning, identity governance and access certifications, directories and identity stores, privileged access considerations, and monitoring and audit reporting.
Ability to translate policy and controls into operating processes and measurable outcomes.
Advanced analytical mindset, with critical thinking, research, problem-solving, and decision-making skills.
Strong initiative and self-motivation.
Ability to manage competing priorities across concurrent large, complex projects, initiatives, and deliverables.
Strong verbal, written, and interpersonal communication skills.
Technical proficiency with MS Office, including Visio, PowerPoint, Excel, and Word, and experience using these tools to build system designs and provide updates during Agile ceremonies and other forums.

Nice To Haves

At least 5 years of Financial Services, Mortgage, and/or Banking experience.
At least 5 years of experience leading people managers.

Responsibilities

Define and own IAM vision, roadmap, principles, policies, and standards, including least privilege, segregation of duties, strong authentication, and lifecycle management.
Ensure effective identity provisioning and deprovisioning processes and automation, particularly through HR-driven triggers, to reduce orphaned accounts and manual errors.
Oversee role and group management and entitlement lifecycle management.
Oversee SSO, federation, MFA, adaptive authentication, and directory and identity-store strategy across on-premises and cloud environments.
Drive RBAC and ABAC improvements and role engineering to mature access assignment and reduce overprovisioning.
Coordinate periodic access reviews and certifications and ensure evidence and reporting support audit and compliance needs.
Ensure identity monitoring, logging, and reporting requirements are met for investigations and control validation.
Oversee privileged accounts, including break-glass and administrator accounts, as well as service and other non-human identities within the IAM control framework.
Provide IAM architecture direction, including patterns, reference architectures, and repeatable application integration approaches.
Evaluate and administer IAM/IGA capabilities and ensure platforms are securely configured and updated in alignment with policy.
Clarify shared responsibilities between IT and security, including infrastructure operations and access policy and compliance requirements.
Define IAM success measures and KPIs for security, employee experience, automation, and audit performance.
Translate policies and controls into operating processes and measurable outcomes, including charters, success measures, and program documentation.