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.
How will you make an impact in this role?
American Express is committed to delivering secure, resilient, and scalable technology solutions that protect our customers and enable business growth. As part of this mission, the Director – Security Integration & Engineering will lead the engineering backbone of enterprise Security Posture Validation. This role drives the strategy, architecture, integration, automation, and sustained operation of the security tooling ecosystem that enables scalable, observable, and enforceable security controls across the software development lifecycle.
The Director will oversee the design and execution of application and code-to-cloud security integrations, ensuring that tooling, automation, and telemetry pipelines generate accurate, defensible insights while supporting developer velocity and regulatory compliance. This leader will collaborate across cybersecurity, engineering, infrastructure, and risk domains to mature posture validation capabilities and align security controls with enterprise standards and global regulatory expectations.
This position demands a strategic and technically deep leader who can operate at both executive and hands-on engineering levels, prioritize operational excellence alongside long-term transformation, and build high-performing teams that deliver measurable risk reduction.
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. From delivering differentiated products to providing world-class customer service, we operate with a strong risk mindset, ensuring we continue to uphold our brand promise of trust, security, and service.
As part of Team Amex, you’ll experience our 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.
