Director of Security Architecture Threat Modeling and Security Champions
Director of Security Architecture Threat Modeling and Security Champions
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We back our colleagues and their loved ones with benefits and programs that support their holistic wellbeing. That means we prioritize their physical financial and mental health through each stage of life. Benefits include:
- Competitive base salaries
- Bonus incentives
- Support for financialwellbeing and retirement
- Comprehensive medical dental vision life insurance and disability benefits (depending on location)
- Flexible working model with hybrid onsite or virtual arrangements depending on role and business need
- Generous paid parental leave policies (depending on your location)
- Free access to global onsite wellness centers staffed with nurses and doctors (depending on location)
- Free and confidential counseling support through our Healthy Minds program
- Career development and training opportunities
American Express is committed to providing an inclusive and accessible work environment in which all people who apply for positions or who work for or on behalf of Amex are treated with dignity and respect and are provided with equal treatment with respect to employment regardless of that persons age sex sexual orientation gender identity gender expression race colour ancestry ethnic or national origin citizenship religion or creed marital status family status pregnancy disability record of offences social condition or origin political beliefs association or activity or other factors prohibited under applicable Human Rights legislation (the Prohibited Grounds). If you have a disability and need accommodation please speak with the Recruiter for more information.
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At American Express youll be recognized for your contributions leadership and impactevery colleague has the opportunity to share in the companys success. Together well win as a team striving to uphold ourcompany values and powerful backing promise to provide the worlds best customer experience every day. And well do it with the utmost integrity and in an environment where everyone is seen heard and feels like they belong.
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How will you make an impact in this role
American Express is seeking a Director of Security Architecture Threat Modeling and Security Champions Program with proven strong technical competence in developing building and maintaining security architectures secure design & secure coding patterns. The Director for Security Architecture Threat Modeling and Security Champions Program leads a team of security architects and threat modeling engineers in developing comprehensive security patterns across TRIS to enhance the organizations security posture.
The B40 Director of Security Architecture Threat Modeling and Security Champions supports the security champion practice by evangelizing security architecture secure design and secure coding controls.
Primary Responsibilities:
- Establish build and implement security architecture and security by design frameworks.
- Formalize security architecture artifacts and establish future state architecture profiles.
- Build and implement processes to review and adopt security architectures in alignment with the enterprise architecture function. Collaborate with enterprise architecture to ensure that security architectures are aligned with enterprise architecture outcomes.
- Lead the development and delivery of holistic TRIS enterprise security architecture decision records for appropriate placement in the Enterprise Architecture Portal.
- Build and implement an integrated threatdriven architecture program that serve as inputs to the security architecture design process.
- Lead the design development and automation of comprehensive secure design patterns and secure coding standards.
- Lead the simplification and delivery of TRIS integrated secure design patterns and threat library uplifts.
- Lead the socialization and integration of security architecture design patterns and secure coding standards with enterprise architecture and engineering teams.
- Ensure ongoing security governance and followthrough of issued security requirements with application owners to ensure identified requirements are implemented.
- Lead control validation and implementation of threatbased countermeasures against outputs of scanning tools to enable auditability and verifiability.
- Implement and operationalize security architecture and threat modeling GenAI assistants and Copilots.
- Consistently enable strong developer and customer experience when liaising with application teams.
Education:
- Bachelors degree in computer science information systems cybersecurity or a related field.
Security and Technical Experience:
- 15 years of information security strategy architecture design and security solutioning experience.
- Direct handson experience with security architecture and threat modeling frameworks.
- Direct handson experience with implementing information security controls.
- Strong familiarity with IAM cryptography application security cloud and infrastructure security controls.
- Experience with industry security standards and frameworks.
- Full stack knowledge of application database architectures and programming languages.
Preferred Security Certifications
- CISSP CISM CISA ISSAP SABSA TOGAF SANS GIAC certifications.
Key Behaviors/Competencies:
- Autonomous selfdirected team Player strong technical thinker.
- Strong planning and collaborative skills
- Strong verbal and written communication skills.
- Takes personal responsibility for learning and upskilling. Acquires strategies for gaining new knowledge behaviors and skills. Builds on and applies existing knowledge. Engages in learning from others inside and outside the organization.
- Demonstrates flexibility within a variety of changing situations while working with individuals and groups.
- Builds and demonstrates strong business acumen.
Required Experience:
Director
Employment Type
Full-Time
