Vice President, Engineering, API Gateways, Secure File Transfer & Agentic Platforms

American Express is seeking a Vice President of Engineering to lead their API Gateways and Secure File Transfer platforms. This role is essential for evolving secure interactions between systems and services, enabling high-volume data exchanges and overseeing engineering teams to drive innovation and operational excellence.

Responsibilities:

• Set Vision for Next-Gen Integration Platforms
• Define and execute the strategic roadmap for API Gateway, Secure File Transfer, and agentic communication platforms
• Enable secure, policy-driven interactions between services, partners, and AI/agent-based systems
• Advance American Express’s transition to cloud-native, event-driven, and zero-trust architectures
• Build and scale platforms that support autonomous, multi-step workflows across APIs, events, and file-based systems
• Establish patterns for agent-to-agent and agent-to-system communication, including orchestration, state management, and observability
• Ensure governance, guardrails, and auditability for AI-driven or agentic transactions and decision flows
• Partner with AI/ML and product teams to operationalize secure, reliable agentic capabilities at enterprise scale
• Build, lead, and inspire a diverse organization of engineering leaders and engineers
• Champion a culture of engineering excellence, innovation, and continuous improvement
• Drive talent development, succession planning, and inclusive leadership practices
• Oversee design and operation of highly available, low-latency, and globally distributed platforms
• Evolve API management capabilities including traffic control, authentication, authorization, and observability
• Modernize SFT capabilities across managed file transfer, encryption, orchestration, and auditability
• Embed security-by-design principles across APIs, file transfer, and agentic workflows
• Ensure compliance with standards such as PCI DSS, SOC, GDPR, and regional regulations
• Implement strong controls for identity, data protection, and agent behavior governance
• Own platform reliability with clear SLAs, SLOs, and SLIs
• Advance observability across APIs, file transfers, and agent-driven workflows
• Optimize cost, performance, and scalability across hybrid and cloud environment
• Partner with Product, Cybersecurity, AI/ML, Infrastructure, and Business teams to align priorities
• Serve as a trusted advisor to senior leadership on platform strategy and emerging technologies
• Engage with external partners, fintechs, and vendors as needed