Principal IAM & AI Identity Architect

American Express Global Business Travel

Juneau (AK)

On-site

USD 104,000 - 194,000

Full time

3 days ago
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Benefits offered by this job

Flexible benefits
Travel perks
Learning platform access
Inclusion and wellness programs

Job summary

American Express Global Business Travel seeks a Principal IAM AI Engineer to design scalable identity architectures for AI agents and humans, embedding identity controls in AI initiatives from day one. You will lead a technical team to implement authentication, authorization, and credential management across on-prem and cloud environments.

The role emphasizes collaboration with AI security, risk, and product teams, delivering policy-driven, least-privilege access with IaC governance.

Qualifications

  • 8+ years in IAM/cybersecurity with architect or principal experience.
  • Designs for non-human identities and workload access at enterprise scale.
  • Strong AWS identity design and multi-account experience.
  • Hands-on with Okta and Saviynt or equivalents.
  • Experience with PAM platforms like CyberArk and Vault.

Responsibilities

  • Develop and govern enterprise IAM security programs and policies.
  • Architect authentication, authorization, and secret management across AI workloads.
  • Lead a team delivering machine identity and agent IAM capabilities.
  • Collaborate with AI, security, and engineering teams from design to deployment.
  • Ensure compliance, audit readiness and risk alignment.

Skills

IAM architecture
Zero-trust
Cross-functional leadership
Cloud IAM (AWS)
OAuth/OIDC/SAML

Education

Bachelor's degree in CS/InfoSec

Tools

Okta
Saviynt
CyberArk
HashiCorp Vault

Job description

American Express Global Business Travel seeks a Principal IAM AI Engineer to design scalable identity architectures for AI agents and humans, embedding identity controls in AI initiatives from day one. You will lead a technical team to implement authentication, authorization, and credential management across on-prem and cloud environments.

The role emphasizes collaboration with AI security, risk, and product teams, delivering policy-driven, least-privilege access with IaC governance.

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