American Express
Director - Cryptographic Architecture & Engineering
Phoenix, AZ +6 · Hybrid · Director · Full-time · Posted Oct 26, 2026
- Location
- Phoenix, AZ
Sunnyvale, CA
Sandy, UT
New York, NY
Charlotte, NC
Atlanta, GA
Sunrise, FL - Experience
- Significant experience in cryptographic engineering, cybersecurity architecture, applied cryptography, or security engineering; no number of years stated.
About the job
Leads enterprise cryptographic architecture and engineering, turning security standards into reusable, automated capabilities and preparing the organization for post-quantum cryptography.
What you'll do
- Define cryptographic architecture and lead encryption, key management, HSM, PKI, certificate, and cloud cryptography initiatives.
- Drive post-quantum readiness and crypto-agility, including cryptographic inventories, migration patterns, and modernization roadmaps.
- Build and promote architecture-as-code, reference implementations, APIs, and automated security guardrails with engineering teams.
What they ask for
- Deep knowledge of symmetric and asymmetric cryptography, encryption, digital signatures, hashing, TLS, key exchange, and modern cryptographic protocols.
- Strong experience with HSMs, enterprise key-management systems, PKI, certificates, and cryptographic key lifecycle management.
- Experience designing encryption across applications, APIs, databases, infrastructure, and cloud environments.
- Ability to translate security requirements into working architectures and reusable patterns, with software engineering or automation capability for prototypes and implementations.
Nice to have
- Post-quantum cryptography, NIST PQC standards, and enterprise crypto-agility programs.
- Financial services or other regulated-environment experience; cloud KMS/HSM, payment cryptography, CBOM, blockchain, or DevSecOps experience.
Pay
$144250 - $256250 annually (base salary)
Tools
HSMs, PKI, TLS, AWS, Azure, GCP, NIST PQC, PCI
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