Director - Cryptographic Architecture & Engineering

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Location:

Phoenix, AZ, United States;
Sunnyvale, CA, United States;
Sandy, UT, United States;
New York, NY, United States;
Charlotte, NC, United States;
Atlanta, GA, United States;
Sunrise, FL, United States Salary: $144250 - $256250 annually + bonus + equity (if applicable) + benefits

Job Function:
Cybersecurity

Schedule:

Full time

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American Express Description 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.

This roles leads the design and modernization of enterprise cryptographic architecture, translating Data Security standards and emerging cryptographic requirements into implementable, reusable and increasingly automated security capabilities.

Provides technical leadership across payment and non-payment encryption, key management and HSMs, certificate and PKI architecture, cloud cryptography, post-quantum readiness and crypto-agility, and emerging cryptographic technologies including blockchain and distributed-ledger use cases.

The successful candidate will combine deep cryptographic expertise with strong engineering capability, moving beyond traditional architecture documentation to create architecture-as-code, reusable patterns, reference implementations, APIs and automated security guardrails that engineering teams can directly consume.

Responsibilities Define enterprise cryptographic architecture and strategic patterns across payment and non-payment environments, applications, APIs, databases, cloud platforms and infrastructure.

Lead post-quantum cryptography readiness and crypto-agility, including cryptographic inventory and CBOM, identification of quantum-vulnerable implementations, migration patterns and modernization roadmaps.

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