Senior Manager-CyberOps & Assurance (DSPM Engineering/Cloud)

American Express•Phoenix, AZ

7h•$123,000 - $215,250

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. American Express is seeking a Sr. Manager – CyberOps & Assurance to lead a team focused on Data Security Posture Management (DSPM). This is a hands-on technical role where you will help build and scale enterprise data security solutions that protect sensitive data across cloud and on-premises environments. The candidate will be part of a specialized sub-team focused on Data Security Posture Management (DSPM). This sub-team is responsible for providing visibility into sensitive data across cloud and on-prem environments, identifying data security risks, and driving remediation efforts. The team leverages modern DSPM tools and analytics to discover, classify, and monitor data, ensuring proper access controls and compliance with internal policies and external regulations. The role involves working on initiatives that enhance data visibility, reduce risk exposure, and strengthen the organization’s overall data security posture Why This Role Matters You will play a key role in shaping how American Express discovers, classifies, and protects sensitive data at scale. This position offers the opportunity to influence enterprise-wide security strategy while building modern, AI-enabled data security capabilities.

Requirements

Senior Manager – CyberOps & Assurance role.
Focus on Data Security Posture Management (DSPM).
Hands-on technical role.
Experience building and scaling enterprise data security solutions.
Experience protecting sensitive data across cloud and on-premises environments.
Experience providing visibility into sensitive data.
Experience identifying data security risks.
Experience driving remediation efforts.
Experience leveraging DSPM tools and analytics.
Experience with data discovery, classification, and monitoring.
Experience ensuring proper access controls.
Experience with compliance with internal policies and external regulations.
Experience working on initiatives that enhance data visibility.
Experience reducing risk exposure.
Experience strengthening data security posture.
Experience influencing enterprise-wide security strategy.
Experience building modern, AI-enabled data security capabilities.

Responsibilities

Lead a team focused on Data Security Posture Management (DSPM).
Build and scale enterprise data security solutions that protect sensitive data across cloud and on-premises environments.
Provide visibility into sensitive data across cloud and on-prem environments.
Identify data security risks.
Drive remediation efforts for data security risks.
Leverage modern DSPM tools and analytics to discover, classify, and monitor data.
Ensure proper access controls and compliance with internal policies and external regulations.
Work on initiatives that enhance data visibility, reduce risk exposure, and strengthen the organization’s overall data security posture.
Influence enterprise-wide security strategy.
Build modern, AI-enabled data security capabilities.