About the role

What will you do at American Express?

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 an experienced Senior Security Automation Engineer to design,

build, and enhance our next-generation Data Access management (DAM) program

spanning traditional, cloud-native, and emerging database technoloy

Which skills does this role require?

PythonJavaNoSQLREST APISpringbootGenAILLMsLangGraphLangChainAWSGCPData securityDatabase securityAnomaly detectionETL pipelinesVector databasesDatabase SecurityCybersecurityData GovernanceData ClassificationEncryptionETL PipelinesVector DatabasesAnomaly DetectionDatabase Activity MonitoringCloud-nativeData EngineeringSecurity AutomationTelemetryLog Analysis

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