Director, Issues, Events & Remediation
About The Position
Joining Amex Tech means discovering and shaping your contribution to something big. Here, you can work alongside talented tech teams and build a unique career with the Powerful Backing of American Express. With a range of opportunities to work with the latest technologies, and a commitment to back the broader engineering community through open source, our mission is to power your success. Because Amex Tech is powered by our technology, our culture, and our colleagues. The Technology organization enables and accelerates the company’s growth strategies, delivering global capabilities and services in support of Amex’s customers and colleagues, while maintaining 24/7 servicing and availability to ensure an uninterrupted, high-quality customer experience. Technology provides the foundation for everything we do in the company while driving differentiation through building and leveraging innovative technology and data insights. The Enterprise Technology Services (ETS) organization partners with every part of the American Express business to power the company’s growth and innovation with trust and efficiency, and drive competitive differentiation with speed. We support the delivery and operations of technology, digital, and data capabilities, platforms, and services globally. Specifically, our team is responsible for the company’s technology engineering, architecture, and infrastructure, providing 24x7 support to ensure an uninterrupted, high-quality experience for customers and colleagues. We also provide product management for core enterprise platforms, and lead technology risk and information security, enterprise data governance and platforms, digital product and design, and enterprise AI platforms on behalf of the company. Joining ETS Governance & Control means helping protect American Express customers and company through integrated, intelligence-driven technology risk and control management. Operating at the intersection of technology, governance, and risk, the team partners across the enterprise to modernize the foundation, advance risk intelligence, demonstrate trust at scale, and reduce material risk—enabling innovation with the right controls in place. By building simplified, consistent frameworks and embedding continuous assurance, ETS Governance & Control enhances transparency, accountability, and sustainable risk reduction. The work is about empowering confident decisions, accelerating responsible delivery, and ensuring controls evolve with the business to strengthen trust and reduce enterprise risk at scale. As the Director, Issues, Events & Remediation, you will serve as a strategic leader and trusted advisor responsible for overseeing the end-to-end Issues, Events, and Remediation lifecycle. Acting as the single point of accountability for Enterprise Technology Services (ETS) leadership, you will drive large-scale change, build a high-performing team, and ensure operational risk processes are executed with precision, efficiency, and transparency.-scale change, build a high-performing team, and ensure operational risk processes are executed with precision, efficiency, and transparency. This role requires a leader who can balance strategic foresight with disciplined execution — shaping ETS-wide risk reduction initiatives while embedding a culture of accountability, proactive risk identification, and continuous improvement.
Requirements
- Strategic foresight
- Disciplined execution
Responsibilities
- Overseeing the end-to-end Issues, Events, and Remediation lifecycle.
- Acting as the single point of accountability for Enterprise Technology Services (ETS) leadership.
- Driving large-scale change.
- Building a high-performing team.
- Ensuring operational risk processes are executed with precision, efficiency, and transparency.
- Shaping ETS-wide risk reduction initiatives.
- Embedding a culture of accountability, proactive risk identification, and continuous improvement.
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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Full-time
Career Level
Director
Education Level
No Education Listed
