Job Description
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 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 of #TeamAmex.
How will you make an impact in this role?
Focus
Partnering with the Information Security Specialist for data access management, this role will lead the delivery of architected and engineered data access security controls and supports the ongoing operations of those controls that manage, monitor, measure, and report the data access security posture of the organization’s data estate. This role will lead the delivery of data access controls for 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 and file systems, 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
Responsible for authoring controls, procedures and metrics and evaluating control effectiveness · Lead the evaluation and selection of best data access security tools and methods
Support the implementation of technology controls to remediate non-compliance with least privilege access principle
Lead and facilitate migration of non-compliant environments to compliant environments
Support stakeholders to achieve least privilege data access control
Implement security policies by administering and monitoring profiles, reviewing violation reports and investigating possible exceptions
Build relationships, lead meetings, gather and document information to measure and improve data access control effectiveness · Ensure currency of internal documentation library
Provide analysis and technical guidance for issue management
Prepare materials (reports, presentations, spreadsheets, etc.) to enable informed decision-making; guide the verification of completeness, accuracy and relevance of data gathered
Assist in the development, implementation, and governance of processes and initiatives to ensure compliance, cost optimization, and efficiency.
Lead the automation of day-to-day operational tasks, control operations validation, reporting and metrics.
Scope of Impact/Influence
Provide day-to-day operational management of data access controls and projects.
Make difficult and timely decisions regarding simple and complex business problems.
Accountable for data access methodologies, policies, standards and procedures are implemented and adherence is within risk toleration thresholds
Education & Experience
Bachelor’s Degree in Computer Science, Information Systems or other related field preferred (or equivalent work experience)
Possess prior identity and access management hands on technical experience securing data hosted in various environments
Experience working with auditors and regulators
In-depth experience with MS O365 collaboration tools
In-depth experience with File Share protocols (NFS, CIFS), Confluence, File Shares, Azure, AWS and GCP
Experience instantiating access security controls and measuring control effectiveness
Certification(s): Associate Google Cloud Certified, AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner, CISM, MCSE, Microsoft 365 Certified: Teamwork Administrator Associate and/or Microsoft 365 Certified: Administrator Expert
5 Years of hands on experience.
High-performing Behaviors
Shares 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 compiling evidence of compliance and control efficacy.
Process automation engineering, Reporting automation.
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
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
Support for financial-well-being and retirement
Comprehensive medical, dental, vision, life insurance, and disability benefits (depending on location)
Flexible working model with hybrid, onsite or virtual arrangements depending on role and business need
Generous paid parental leave policies (depending on your location)
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
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.
Offer of employment with American Express is conditioned upon the successful completion of a background verification check, subject to applicable laws and regulations.
