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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 #TeamAmex 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.
The U.S. Consumer Services and Enterprise Digital & Data Technology Team brings together foundational strategic technology capabilities in digital experience engineering (Mobile and Web), AI/ML, marketing technology, enterprise communications, travel and lifestyle, and automation, grounded in our data technology model that prioritizes data governance. It employs a ground-breaking focus with development responsibilities for customer-facing capabilities that deepen and expand digital engagement, as well as core technical capabilities that cut across business lines and customer segments.
How will you make an impact in this role?
In this role you will be the technology risk and compliance champion for a large organization focused on Digital Experiences, Marketing Technology, Data Science and AI/ML. You will:
- Run the technology risk and compliance program for the Unit CIO.
- Assess technology risk and compliance requirements for the group.
- Find opportunities to mitigate or reduce the risk.
- Manage and report technology risk and compliance items.
- Lead a small team of engineers and analysts to implement the program.
- Collaborate with leadership across the group to progress risk and compliance initiatives and mandates.
- Create reports and provide status update to senior leadership on technology risk and compliance items.
- Automate compliance and/or risk processes to improve engineering team efficiency.
- Be our technology risk and compliance scout and identify potential risks.
Minimum Qualifications
- Bachelor's degree in technology management, Technology Operations, Computer Science or a similar field
- 8+ years of technology leadership experience
- Demonstrated experience in technology risk and compliance management.
- Executive level communication and presentation skills.
- High confidence level knowledge of technology, recent tech advancements, understanding of the latest industry trends and their impacts on technology risk and compliance (e.g. GenAI, AI governance, Privacy and Consent, Application security etc.).
- Flexible to both lead the way and deep dive alongside a team when needed.
Preferred Qualifications
- Executive presence and confidence while working with senior leaders.
- Comfortable with frequent context switching.
- Ability to research and synthesize information with minimal direction.
- Previous engineering management experience.
- Resilience in face of complex and potentially difficult paths.
Salary Range: $145,000.00 to $230,000.00 annually + bonus + equity (if applicable) + 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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