Senior Associate-CyberOps & Assurance

American Express • Phoenix, AZ

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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.

At American Express, our mission is to deliver the world’s best customer experience every day. At the heart of this mission is our Information Security organization, enabling exceptional experiences built on a foundation of trust, service, and security. We leverage advanced technologies and data-driven insights to stay ahead of an evolving threat landscape. We foster a culture of passion, curiosity, and courage—empowering you to innovate, grow, and help shape the future of a Fortune 100 company.
Trust. Service. Security.

The Data Security team is responsible for safeguarding the organization’s most critical asset—its data—by ensuring confidentiality, integrity, and availability across all platforms and environments. Working at the intersection of cybersecurity, data governance, and privacy, the Data Security team focuses on capabilities such as data classification, encryption, secure data access, and monitoring. The team partners closely with engineering, risk, and business units to embed security controls throughout the data lifecycle—from creation and storage to sharing and archival.

We are seeking a hands-on Technical Project Manager to accelerate delivery across our Data Security engineering teams. This role is embedded within day-to-day engineering workflows and is accountable for ensuring that product backlog priorities are translated into high-quality, demonstrable outcomes that meet stakeholder needs.

This position is central to our transformation to a product-driven Data Security organization, strengthening alignment between product intent and engineering execution. A key differentiator is the active use of AI to improve backlog quality, accelerate delivery, and increase the consistency and precision of engineering outputs.
This role ensures that engineering teams are consistently working on the right priorities with well-defined requirements, and delivering high-quality outcomes that meet stakeholder expectations. By embedding AI into backlog management and sprint execution, the role increases speed, reduces rework, and improves consistency across teams, enabling more scalable and predictable delivery.

Requirements

• Hands-on Technical Project Manager experience.
• Experience working within day-to-day engineering workflows.
• Experience with AI in backlog management and sprint execution.

Responsibilities

• Accelerate delivery across Data Security engineering teams.
• Ensure product backlog priorities are translated into high-quality, demonstrable outcomes that meet stakeholder needs.
• Strengthen alignment between product intent and engineering execution.
• Improve backlog quality, accelerate delivery, and increase the consistency and precision of engineering outputs through the active use of AI.
• Ensure engineering teams are consistently working on the right priorities with well-defined requirements.
• Deliver high-quality outcomes that meet stakeholder expectations.
• Increase speed, reduce rework, and improve consistency across teams by embedding AI into backlog management and sprint execution.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Senior
• Education Level: No Education Listed