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You Lead the Way. We’ve Got Your Back.

With the right backing, people and businesses have the power to progress in incredible ways. When you join Team Amex, you become part of a global and diverse community of colleagues with an unwavering commitment to back our customers, communities and each other. Here, you’ll learn and grow as we help you create a career journey that’s unique and meaningful to you with benefits, programs, and flexibility that support you personally and professionally.

At American Express, you’ll be recognized for your contributions, leadership, and impact—every colleague has the opportunity to share in the company’s success. Together, we’ll win as a team, striving to uphold our company values and powerful backing promise to provide the world’s best customer experience every day. And we’ll do it with the utmost integrity, and in an environment where everyone is seen, heard and feels like they belong.

Join Team Amex and let's lead the way together.

As part of our diverse tech team, you can architect, code and ship software that makes us an essential part of our customers’ digital lives. Here, you can work alongside talented engineers in an open, supportive, inclusive environment where your voice is valued, and you make your own decisions on what tech to use to solve challenging problems. American Express offers a range of opportunities to work with the latest technologies and encourages you to back the broader engineering community through open source. And because we understand the importance of keeping your skills fresh and relevant, we give you dedicated time to invest in your professional development. Find your place in technology on #TeamAmex.

Focus

Responsible for architecting and engineering data access security controls that manage, monitor, measure, and report the data access security posture of the organization’s data estate. Specifically this role will focus on controlling access to semi-structured and unstructured data hosted on distributed servers, cloud, storage, file systems, file shares and collaboration repositories. Data access controls will cover person and non-person identities and their access, including but not limited to users, applications, APIs and GenAI.

Organizational Context

Reports to the Director of Data Access Management. The Data Access Management team architects, engineers and operates data access controls for structured, semi-structured and unstructured data hosted on the mainframe, distributed servers, cloud, storage, file systems, file shares and collaboration repositories. Works across Technology Risk and Information Security, Privacy, Enterprise Data Governance, hosting platform teams to meet business, security, risk and compliance objectives for a Category 2 bank. The Data Access Management team functions in support of the broader Data Security Posture Management program.

Key Responsibilities

• Conduct security assessments of User, System and Service IDs access to data

• Document current and desired future state capabilities, incorporating industry leading technologies that improve data access controls

• Design, develop and deploy technology controls to drive least privilege access to data

• Define data access control metrics

• Provide ongoing awareness/education of industry efforts and statistics relevant to data access control

• Work with all levels across Technology and Business to establish data access controls that align with enterprise strategies and compliance objectives

• Provide consultation to internal Business partners, customers and vendors in assessing data access risks and mitigating controls to protect corporate intellectual capital and other sensitive data

Education & Experience

• Bachelor’s Degree in Computer Science, Information Security (or equivalent work experience)

• Experience architecting and engineering data access security controls

• In-depth experience with MS Office365 collaboration tools with specific focus on SharePoint Online

• In-depth experience with File Share protocols (NFS, CIFS), Confluence, Active Directory, Azure, AWS and GCP

• Experience instantiating access security controls and measuring control effectiveness

• Certification(s): Associate Google Cloud Certified, AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner, CISSP, MCSE, Microsoft 365 Certified: Teamwork Administrator Associate and/or Microsoft 365 Certified: Administrator Expert

• 5 Years of hands on experience.

High-performing Behaviors

• Shares critical expertise and knowledge to support team

• Uses breakthrough thinking to generate insights, alternatives and opportunities to prevent attacks

• Analyzes complex information and identifies the most meaningful details

• Identifies a number of ways to do things differently that will continuously strengthen the security posture

• Takes initiative, handles problems and acts on own initiative without being prompted

• Transparently leads through change, ambiguity and brings clarity

• Prepares well in advance to maximize resource and time

Knowledge/Skills

Requires in depth knowledge of identity and access management (IAM) architecture, engineering and operations to protect access to data; authoring security policies, standards, controls and metrics; knowledge of related technologies: web, network, server, database security; IAM control operations and providing evidence of compliance and control efficacy.

Game Changers

• Communications

• Teamwork

• Continuous Improvement

• Courage

• Curiosity

• Ingenuity

• Tenacity

Role Core Competencies

Technical

• Technical Acumen

• Emerging Technologies

• System/Platform Domain Knowledge

Functional

• Identity and Access Management

Leadership

• Analytical Thinking

Business

• Regulatory Compliance

• Industry and Company Knowledge

Qualifications

Salary Range: $110,000.00 to $190,000.00 annually bonus benefits

The above represents the expected salary range for this job requisition. Ultimately, in determining your pay, we’ll consider your location, experience, and other job-related factors.

We back our colleagues and their loved ones with benefits and programs that support their holistic well-being. That means we prioritize their physical, financial, and mental health through each stage of life. Benefits include:

• Competitive base salaries

• Bonus incentives

• 6% Company Match on retirement savings plan

• Free financial coaching and financial well-being support

• Comprehensive medical, dental, vision, life insurance, and disability benefits

• Flexible working model with hybrid, onsite or virtual arrangements depending on role and business need

• 20 weeks paid parental leave for all parents, regardless of gender, offered for pregnancy, adoption or surrogacy

• Free access to global on-site wellness centers staffed with nurses and doctors (depending on location)

• Free and confidential counseling support through our Healthy Minds program

• Career development and training opportunities

For a full list of Team Amex benefits, visit our Colleague Benefits Site .

American Express is an equal opportunity employer and makes employment decisions without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, veteran status, disability status, age, or any other status protected by law.

We back our colleagues with the support they need to thrive, professionally and personally. That's why we have Amex Flex, our enterprise working model that provides greater flexibility to colleagues while ensuring we preserve the important aspects of our unique in-person culture. Depending on role and business needs, colleagues will either work onsite, in a hybrid model (combination of in-office and virtual days) or fully virtually.

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Job: Technologies

Primary Location: US-Arizona-Phoenix

Schedule Full-time

Req ID: 24012632