DescriptionYou 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.Main focus is on crafting processes that effectively protect the enterprise and the related management of regulatory/compliance and other guidance. Provides consultation and strategic recommendations to internal business partners, customers and vendors in assessing secure business solutions and mitigating controls to protect corporate intellectual capital and other sensitive data. Leads small teams of information security experts.How will you make an impact in this role?American Express is on an exciting multi cloud transformation journey driven today by a successful, high-energy, delivery-focused team that enables our vision of “security-as-code.” The Cloud Security organization partners with a diverse set of teams and tools to ensure public cloud security equivalency with on-premises security capabilities, methods, and processes for all cloud service models (IaaS, PaaS, SaaS) and workloads. The Sr. Information Security Analyst – Cloud Security Strategy and Governance will be an integral member of the Cloud Security Strategy and Governance team, working cross-functionally to consistently manage and communicate security milestones, governance, and finance across public and private cloud initiatives. This role will report directly to the Director of Cloud Security Strategy & Governance and will work closely with internal team members, Information Security domain teams, and Enterprise Cloud teams to deliver security solutions to support enterprise goals. This role will aim to support a variety of objectives and initiatives while maintaining clear prioritization across these teams. This position demands a well-organized, action-oriented team player with the ability to prioritize daily work and the ability to work on multiple initiatives simultaneously, to establish and maintain an outward looking view on new and evolving technologies; and an ability to mature and operate business critical, end-to-end processes and solutions. The ability to self-manage, drive and deliver end-to-end process and solutions focused on great user experiences and strong interpersonal communications skills are required.Responsibilities Include:
Lead Program Management functions to drive delivery of centralized cloud security reporting, governance, and finance functions
Establish strong communications across the agile teams, stakeholders and leadership
Closely collaborate across multiple organizations and business partners, to include Enterprise Cloud, Technology Risk and Information security (TRIS), and others to drive prioritization of cloud initiatives
Effectively maintain updates and communication with TRIS leadership partners
Partner in external and internal audits, ensuring overall adherence to policies and standards, driving the highest level of compliance through response, remediation and escalation as necessary
Help to drive and refine cloud security budget and finance forecasting for public cloud consumption of security tools
Capture requirements; build functional specifications, timelines, adoption plans and other artifacts to support security implementation.
Partner with and support the Engineering team to drive and execute enterprise goals in a timely manner.
Provide guidance and support to team members and colleagues as needs arise
Minimum Qualifications:
Experience with Cloud Control Matrix and CIS benchmarks for gap assessment
Broad understanding of IS disciplines including, Governance, Cyber Threat, Identity and Access, Infrastructure, Endpoint, Vulnerability, Data Protection, Operations, Application, Incident Response.
Understanding of Cloud Fundamentals, including containers, software-defined networks, high availability design, multi-cloud, and serverless compute.
Demonstrated experience in Agile environments, application design, software development, and/or testing.
Self-started with excellent verbal and written communication skills.
Experience developing and delivering timely and effective reporting metrics across multiple teams
Ability to collaborate effectively, work closely within a coordinated team environment, and maintain composure while dealing with time sensitive deadlines
Demonstrated experience in leading and managing projects in a rapidly changing environment
Preferred Qualifications:
5 years of experience in Information Security Roles
Bachelor’s Degree in computer science, computer engineering, or related field; or equivalent experience
Information Security Certification preferred, CISM or similar.
QualificationsSalary Range: $110,000.00 to $190,000.00 annually bonus benefitsThe 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.US Job Seekers/Employees - Click here to view the “Know Your Rights” poster and the Pay Transparency Policy Statement.If the links do not work, please copy and paste the following URLs in a new browser window: https://www.dol.gov/agencies/ofccp/posters to access the three posters.Employment eligibility to work with American Express in the U.S. is required as the company will not pursue visa sponsorship for this position.Job: TechnologyPrimary Location: US-Arizona-PhoenixSchedule Full-timeReq ID: 24015980