Director - Identity & Access Management

Texas Capital•Dallas, NC

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 shared ownership with 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 role provides IAM architecture direction, oversees IAM and identity governance capabilities, and coordinates cross-functional execution. It also defines IAM outcome measures covering security, employee experience, automation, and audit performance.

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, or 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 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 policies and controls into operating processes and measurable outcomes, including charters, success measures, and program documentation.
Advanced analytical, critical-thinking, research, problem-solving, and decision-making skills with a focus on results.
High self-motivation and a strong sense of initiative.
Ability to manage competing priorities across concurrent, large, complex projects, initiatives, and deliverables.
Strong verbal, written, and interpersonal communication skills.
Strong technical proficiency with Microsoft 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

Five or more years of Financial Services, Mortgage, and/or Banking experience.
Five or more years of experience leading people managers.

Responsibilities

Define and own the IAM vision, roadmap, principles, policies, and standards, including least privilege, segregation of duties, strong authentication, and identity lifecycle management.
Ensure effective joiner, mover, and leaver 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 single sign-on, federation, multifactor and adaptive authentication, and directory and identity-store strategy across on-premises and cloud environments.
Drive role-based and attribute-based access control 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, and service or 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 and identity governance capabilities and ensure platforms are securely configured and updated in accordance with policy.
Clarify shared responsibilities between IT and security, including infrastructure operations and access policy and compliance requirements.
Establish success measures and KPIs for IAM security, employee experience, automation, and audit performance.