AI-First IAM Architect for Enterprise Security

American Express Global Business Travel; Topeka (KS); On-site; USD 104,000 - 194,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Flexible benefits

Travel perks

Learning platform access

Job summary

American Express Global Business Travel seeks a Principal IAM AI Engineer to shape identity architecture for AI agents and non-human workloads. You will lead authentication, authorization, and credential management, ensuring secure adoption of AI initiatives across our global platforms.

Expect collaboration with engineering, risk, and compliance teams to embed identity controls from design through deployment.

Qualifications

• Extensive IAM/security architecture experience in enterprise environments.
• Experience designing non-human identities and workload identities at scale.
• Hands-on with Okta, Saviynt, CyberArk/Idira, and Vault.
• Strong leadership and cross-functional collaboration skills.

Responsibilities

• Design and implement authentication and authorization infrastructure for AI and agent-based workloads.
• Lead a technical team to maintain and evolve machine identity and agent IAM programs.
• Define policy-driven access controls and infrastructure-as-code policies.
• Collaborate with AI development teams to embed identity controls in design phases.

Skills

IAM security

Cross-functional leadership

Security architecture

Leadership

Tools

Okta

Saviynt

CyberArk/Idira

HashiCorp Vault

Kubernetes

Terraform

Job description

American Express Global Business Travel seeks a Principal IAM AI Engineer to shape identity architecture for AI agents and non-human workloads. You will lead authentication, authorization, and credential management, ensuring secure adoption of AI initiatives across our global platforms.

Expect collaboration with engineering, risk, and compliance teams to embed identity controls from design through deployment.