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American Express is seeking an Application Security Architect with proven strong competence in building implementing application security governance and risk management processes. The Application Security Architect serves as a domain expert in developing and maintaining comprehensive security requirements across a diverse number of technology stacks. The Application Security Architect supports the security champion practice by evangelizing secure design and secure coding controls.
Primary Responsibilities:
- Develop security governance processes and procedures for the threat modeling program.
- Assist in the development of threat modeling governance documentation.
- Works with information security leadership to develop strategies and plans to enforce threat modeling and address identified control gaps.
- Develops reports for management concerning residual risk and non compliance.
- Monitor and track compliance with application owners to ensure implementation of security controls as planned.
- Review issued security controls with application owners to ensure identified requirements are implemented.
- Validate implementation of security controls against outputs of scanning tools to enable auditability and verifiability.
- Assist application owners in filing appropriate security standard exceptions as identified through threat modeling.
- Develop, Maintain, update and enhance secure design patterns and secure coding standards.
- Develop, Maintain, update and enhance threat libraries.
- Socialize secure design patterns and secure coding standards with engineering teams.
- Assist application teams with threat modeling consultancy questions.
- Consistently enable strong developer and customer experience when liaising with application teams. Uphold Blue Box values when liaising with application teams.
Minimum Qualifications:
- Bachelor's degree in computer science, information systems, or cybersecurity
- 6+ years Application Security and Technical Experience
- Experience with implementing security governance and risk management processes.
- 6+ years information security risk concepts and principles, as a means of relating business needs to security controls.
- 3+ years experience in developing, documenting and maintaining security policies, processes, procedures and standards.
- 3+ years experience with application threat modeling. Threat assessment, security architecture reviews
- 3+ years of software engineering experience
- Certification CISSP
Preferred Qualifications:
- Experience with threat modeling frameworks, attack vectors and vulnerability analysis: CAPEC, ATT&CK, STRIDE.
- Experience with application security controls (Web, API, Mobile, AI).
- Experience with common information security management and application frameworks: NIST 800-53, CSF, OWASP ASVS.
- Experience with Machine Learning Application Development
- Knowledge of Adversarial Robustness techniques and tools for machine learning
- Knowledge of AI Risk Management frameworks and Trustworthy AI practices.
- Experience with deploying and operationalizing AI/ML models to public cloud environments
- Experience with Application Security design and DevSecOps
- Full stack knowledge of application architectures including: Single Page Applications, REST APIs, SOAP APIs, Mobile Applications.
- Experience with Java, Javascript and mobile application development.
- Knowledge or familiarity with database architectures including Oracle, SQL, DB2 and NoSQL Databases
- Experience with Cloud security, architecture, design, implementation, and operations
- Exposure to IAM Controls (OAuth 2.0, OIDC, JWT)
- Strong familiarity with Cryptography Controls (Data at rest, in motion).
- CISSP, CISM, CSSLP, CISA, CRISC
Salary Range: $110,000.00 to $190,000.00 annually + bonus + benefits
The above represents the expected salary range for this job requisition. Ultimately, in determining your pay, we'll consider your location, experience, and other job-related factors.
We back our colleagues and their loved ones with benefits and programs that support their holistic well-being. That means we prioritize their physical, financial, and mental health through each stage of life. Benefits include:
- Competitive base salaries
- Bonus incentives
- 6% Company Match on retirement savings plan
- Free financial coaching and financial well-being support
- Comprehensive medical, dental, vision, life insurance, and disability benefits
- Flexible working model with hybrid, onsite or virtual arrangements depending on role and business need
- 20+ weeks paid parental leave for all parents, regardless of gender, offered for pregnancy, adoption or surrogacy
- Free access to global on-site 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
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We back our colleagues with the support they need to thrive, professionally and personally. That's why we have Amex Flex, our enterprise working model that provides greater flexibility to colleagues while ensuring we preserve the important aspects of our unique in-person culture. Depending on role and business needs, colleagues will either work onsite, in a hybrid model (combination of in-office and virtual days) or fully virtually.
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