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Senior Cybersecurity Engineer-Java
American ExpressUnited Statesfull_timeVerifiedPosted 16 Sept 2025
💰 $190,000/yr($110,000/yr – $190,000/yr)
About the role
Senior Cybersecurity Engineer-Java-25016254
Description
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. As part of Team Amex, you'll experience this 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.How will you make an impact in this role?Responsible for architecting and engineering data access security controls that manage, monitor, measure, and report the data access security posture of the organization’s data estate. Specifically, this role will focus on controlling access to semi-structured and unstructured data hosted on distributed servers, cloud, storage, file systems, file shares and collaboration repositories. Data access controls will cover person and non-person identities and their access, including but not limited to users, applications, APIs, and GenAI.Organizational Context:Reports to the Director of Data Access Management. The Data Access Management team architects, engineers and operates data access controls for structured, semi-structured and unstructured data hosted on the mainframe, distributed servers, cloud, storage, file systems, file shares and collaboration repositories like SharePoint, Confluence, Slack, OneDrive, GitHub etc. Works across Technology Risk and Information Security, Privacy, Enterprise Data Governance, hosting platform teams to meet business, security, risk, and compliance objectives for a Category 2 bank. The Data Access Management team functions in support of the broader Data Security Posture Management program.Key Responsibilities:- Automate discovery and remediation of excess permissions in M365 and other unstructured data platforms.
- Develop custom scripts and automation workflows for deprovisioning access based on leavers or transfer events, and usage inactivity.
- Manage and make enhancements to access attestation portal
- Implement automated solutions to initiate access reviews for high-risk items.
- Implement solutions to monitor and remediate access anomalies and policy violations.
- Deploy workflows to aggregate permissions from unstructured data platforms through APIs.
- Perform data analysis and reporting as needed.
- Bachelor’s degree in computer science, Information Security (or equivalent work experience)
- 7+ Years of hands-on experience.
- Strong expertise in Java (Spring Boot, REST API)
- Development experience with Node, React, Java/J2EE, Restful Webservices
- Experience in cloud deployment in a continuous integration, and continuous delivery model (CI/CD).
- Experience with CSS, HTML, JavaScript, and similar UI frameworks (jQuery, React Angular)
- Experience working with containers and microservices in the cloud.
- SQL Proficiency: Writing complex queries, joins, stored procedures, functions, and triggers.
- Experience using Microsoft Graph data connect
- Shares critical expertise and knowledge to support team.
- Uses breakthrough thinking to generate insights, alternatives, and opportunities to prevent attacks.
- Analyzes complex information and identifies the most meaningful details.
- Identifies several ways to do things differently that will continuously strengthen the security posture.
- Takes initiative, handles problems, and acts on own initiative without being prompted.
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