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At American Express, our culture is built on a 175-year history of innovation, shared values and Leadership Behaviors, and an unwavering commitment to back our customers, communities, and colleagues. As part of Team Amex, you'll experience this powerful backing with comprehensive support for your holistic well-being and many opportunities to learn new skills, develop as a leader, and grow your career.

Here, your voice and ideas matter, your work makes an impact, and together, you will help us define the future of American Express.

How will you make an impact in this role?

The Third-Party Security (TPS) team within American Express’ Technology Risk and Information Security (TRIS) organization is a high-energy, results-driven group dedicated to reducing cybersecurity risk across the company’s third-party ecosystem. TPS manages key functions related to management of third parties including information security due diligence, contracting, ongoing monitoring, and reporting. This role is part of the contracting function, and it entails supporting TPS’s cybersecurity risk strategy and roadmap while supporting complex contract negotiations. As a primary responsibility you will lead the documentation, management, tracking, and reporting of Third-Party Security’s multi-year cyber risk strategy and roadmap. Additionally, you will partner with TRIS Risk SMEs, General Counsel’s Office (GCO), and Global Supply Management (GSM) to support modernization of Information Protection Contract Requirements (IPCR) template and processes. Lastly, you will partner with GCO, TRIS Risk SMEs, Third-Party Relationship Managers (TRMs), and GSM, to support negotiation of IPCR in contracts with third parties.

Responsibilities Include:

• Assist in the development and maturation of a robust third-party cyber risk strategy that enables the enterprise to develop and implement security solutions and capabilities that are clearly aligned with business, technology, and threat drivers.

• Collaborate with extended Third-Party Security Team and Technology Risk and Information Security SMEs Lead forums with key stakeholders to manage, track, and report on different projects and strategic initiatives

• Create overview presentations, trackers, and reports to present status of different initiatives

• Identifying opportunities to adopt new technologies, including Artificial Intelligence, to improve risk management, streamline processes, and address emerging risks.

• Evaluate emerging information security developments and help assess the impacts and relevance to American Express to stay ahead of new policies and regulations.

• Partner with GCO to support negotiation of Information Security (IPCR) terms in contracts with third parties.

• Analyze multiple sources of information during contract negotiations to identify, understand, and communicate risks, contract requirements, gaps or deficiencies, and mitigating controls.

• Collaborate across the contract and product review lifecycles as needed, including by identifying mitigating controls, identifying potential control gaps across TRIS domains

Minimum Qualifications:

• Proven experience driving strategic initiatives from vision to execution while identifying opportunities for efficiency

• Experience in risk and control management functions with strong research and analytical abilities

• Experience supporting enterprise-wide risk governance initiatives, including Control Management reporting, Risk Assessment overview, portfolio overviews, etc.

• Strong communications skills, in both written and verbal form with the ability to communicate effectively across various management levels internally and externally.

• Strong presentation skills ability to translate complex processes and technical terms into simple concepts, verbally, in writing, and in presentation materials.

• Strong knowledge of industry standard control frameworks, security assurance auditing standards, best practices guidelines, and third-party regulatory requirements, such as ISO27001, NIST CSF, SSAE16/18, CSA, CIS Top 20, OWASP Top 10, FFIEC, etc.

• Understanding Information Security risk and differences between Technology, Information Security, Artificial Intelligence, and other types of operational risks.

• Intellectual curiosity and willingness to learn and understand how different things work to identify risks and mitigating controls

• Candidate must make collaboration essential and have a willingness to interact with extended Third-Party Security team to solve complex problems and drive strategic initiatives.

• Knowledge of network architecture, proxy infrastructure, and programs to support network access and enablement, specifically related to how Third Parties connect to the American Express Network and beyond.

• 2 years of experience managing technology risk

• 3 years of Control Management and/or Control Testing experience in a large organization

• 4 years of experience in Information Security operational roles with increase of responsibilities and scope

Preferred Qualifications:

• Bachelor’s degree in Cybersecurity, Computer Science, Computer Engineering, or related field

• Information Security Certifications including but not limited to; CompTIA Security , CISSP; CISM; MCTS; MCP; CCNA.

Qualifications

Salary Range: $89,250.00 to $150,250.00 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 you with benefits that support your holistic well-being so you can be and deliver your best. This means caring for you and your loved ones' physical, financial, and mental health, as well as providing the flexibility you need to thrive personally and professionally:

• 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. American Express will consider for employment all qualified applicants, including those with arrest or conviction records, in accordance with the requirements of applicable state and local laws, including, but not limited to, the California Fair Chance Act, the Los Angeles County Fair Chance Ordinance for Employers, and the City of Los Angeles’ Fair Chance Initiative for Hiring Ordinance. For positions covered by federal and/or state banking regulations, American Express will comply with such regulations as it relates to the consideration of applicants with criminal convictions.

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: 26000094